gw1000 driver sensor signal strength ?

[Tim Tuck]

Hi,

I notice in the Ecowitt app on my iPhone that the  sensor array, the
PM2.5, Lightning detector and the soil moisture sensors all have signal
strength readouts in the sensor ID section.

Is it possible for the driver to return that data ?

thanks

Tim

[gjr80]

The gw1000 driver should be providing battery state info for all of those sensors, the instance I run at home certainly does. Have you run WeeWX directly or have you run the driver directly with the —live-data command line option? What output do you see?

Gary

[Tim Tuck]

Hi Gary,

I have the battery state OK but not the Signal Strength. --live-data doesn't show signal strength..

See pic below showing signal strength for each sensor

thanks

Tim

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[gjr80]

Sorry, read signal strength but brain said battery state. The sensor signal strength is currently not available in loop packets. It is available by running the driver directly with the —sensors command line option (you can run the GW1000 driver directly while WeeWX continues to run). Long story why signal strength is not in loop packets, but I will look at adding it in the next release.

It’s worth noting that the GW1000 signal strength is not a true RF signal strength but rather it is a measure of how many of the most recent, expected, sensor data packets were received by the GW1000.

Gary

[Graham Eddy]

map to rxCheckPercent?

[gjr80]

Unlikely the default driver mapping will be to rxCheckPercent given there could potentially be numerous individual sensor signal state fields in a densely populated system. Of course if the user wants to re-map individual sensor signal level field(s) to some other field(s) that is easily done through the driver config stanza.

Gary