module allsky_dewheater expansion with the “sensor” to include Solo Cloudwachter

[Adler6907]

I have expanded the allsky_dewheater module to include a “sensor”. The new "sensor" reads the weather data from the weather station "Solo Cloudwatcher" from the company "Lunatico Astronomia" (lunaticoastro.com) via HTTP.

Runs on an Rpi5 with Bookwoorm.
new libraries import gpiod, import urllib.request and import json are needed (they were already installed on mine)
new function def readSolo(url), Changes in metaData, getSensorReading and dewheater

Here is the data provided by the “Solo Cloudwatcher”:
{ "LastReadings": { "dataGMTTime" : "2023/12/18 18:22:07", "cwinfo" : "Serial: 2550, FW: 5.89", "clouds" : -18.130000, "cloudsSafe" : "Safe", "temp" : 7.820000, "wind" : 7, "windSafe" : "Safe", "gust" : 8, "rain" : 3100, "rainSafe" : "Safe", "lightmpsas" : 19.82, "lightSafe" : "Safe", "switch" : 1, "safe" : 1, "hum" : 40, "humSafe" : "Safe", "dewp" : -4.940000, "rawir" : -22.680000, "abspress" : 998.450000, "relpress" : 1027.527780, "pressureSafe" : "Safe" } }

Here in the zip file is also another module "allsky_solo_cloudwatcher" which writes all the data listed above from the "Solo-Cloudwatcher" to /home/pi/allsky/tmp/allskydb.py for possible use in other modules

allsky_dewheater.zip

CS

[Alex-developer]

Thats really nice :-)

We are currently freezing development until we release the Point-Release-4 which is planned for this Fri/Sat. As soon as that is released I will get this merged into the code

Thanks for the contribution :-)

Alex

[Adler6907]

ohha, in the script "allsky_dewheater.py" in the ZIP file above, there is a small error in the call to "readSolo" in the function "getSensorReading"

instead of

    elif sensorType == "SOLO-Cloudwatcher":
        temperature, humidity, pressure, dewPoint, = readSolo(url)  

it has to look like this (a comma after "dewPoint" is too many)

    elif sensorType == "SOLO-Cloudwatcher":
        temperature, humidity, pressure, dewPoint = readSolo(url)  

I changed it in the ZIP file above

[Alex-developer]

Closing this as dealing with it as an issue

See #39

[Adler6907]

Suggestion: You could add a “sensor” that, like the Solo, gets the weather data from a surrounding weather station with an API key from weather.com. Here is a documentary about it. This is how I get the wind direction because the SOLO doesn't have that (yet).

I could add this to the SOLO code in the next few days if desired.

This means that users of the Allsky software can use environmental data without physically installing a sensor