Ecowitt gw1000 and moisture sensors?

christi999 · January 30, 2020, 6:24pm

I took the latest driver, made the changes and put it here

muchu999/Hubitat/blob/master/Text1

/*
* AmbientWeather
*
* Description:
* This Hubitat driver polls the AmbientWeather API OR receives data from your local Ecowitt weather station. If you reuse this code
* in your own driver, you must obtain your own developer API Key to place in the ApplicationKey value of the
* PollAmbient procedure.
*
* Required Information:
* There is information required you must have for this driver to work:
* 1) The MAC Address of the weather station you want to poll
* 2) A user API Key requested from AmbientWeather to allow data to be polled if using the "Ambient API" data method. If using an Ecowitt weather station with @christi999's "Ecowitt Local" method
*
* Features List:
* v0.92 - Added support for DeWitt Weather Stations that allow local checking of weather station. No API needed.
* v0.7 - Error checking of MAC Address including some possible auto-correction
* v0.7 - Calculates DewPoint from tempf and humidityout (if not reported by Ambient)
* v0.7 - Calculates HeatIndex if tempf >= 80ºF but reports null otherwise
* v0.7 - Calculates WindChill if tempf <= 50ºF and windSpeed > 3mph but reports null otherwise
* v0.6 - Ability to hide preferences to keep the screen simpler, to be added to all my drivers eventually

This file has been truncated. show original

You will need to update the preferences to change "Which method of obtaining weather data do you want to use? *" to Ecowitt

I will ask the driver owner to make the changes, I think you also have the battery status not showing, those might also be added in the official release of the driver...

jatgm1 · January 30, 2020, 6:38pm

oh man, sorry i made pancakes lol, i appreciate it, do you litterally just search for the term and switch it out in the code?

christi999 · January 30, 2020, 6:39pm

Yea, find/replace, 2 seconds...

jatgm1 · January 30, 2020, 6:44pm

This seems a lot harder and a lot easier at the same time....... Interesting how this works. Thank you I appreciate your help it's actually working great now. And now I have a little bit more of an example on how to make a custom driver.

christi999 · January 30, 2020, 6:47pm

Great, enjoy the pancakes.

jatgm1 · January 30, 2020, 7:07pm

Thank you. How do you use them as triggers? How would I like make it automatically fill a global variable or something?

jatgm1 · January 30, 2020, 7:07pm

The humidity I think is just the regular humidity sensor

jatgm1 · January 30, 2020, 7:20pm

just found variable connectors. problem solved. i love this little box.

christi999 · January 30, 2020, 9:00pm

The driver owner made a new version for you, same place as before:

https://www.drdsnell.com/projects/hubitat/drivers/AmbientWeather.groovy

Could you test it, the variable names will be different from what you have now but the bonus is that you would have the battery status.

You can report if it works correctly here:

https://community.hubitat.com/t/project-driver-for-ambientweather-api/

cutlernj · August 20, 2021, 2:29am

It seems like this driver has dropped off the internet. Does anyone know what has happened or what replaces it?

snell · August 20, 2021, 3:10am

If you are talking about my AmbientWeather one, it was replaced when I built in the ability for it to handle Ecowitt. The project page is still good, and the link to the OLD driver actually still works but it is very outdated. The project page has the newer one.

If you are talking about @mircolino's... he discontinued and removed it just a few days ago. I am not sure of the reasons/circumstances.

njanda · August 20, 2021, 9:53pm

Nooooo !

This is not good news !

sburke781 · August 20, 2021, 10:04pm

I know, I was thinking the same thing, but don't worry, a copy of the code has been taken, Mirco was kind enough to allow that to happen. Not sure about what plans there are for maintaining it. I'd be happy to take a look, but can't commit to any major work myself.

nrm94ee330 · August 21, 2021, 1:15pm

Would it be possible to post the new code or a link to it (mircolino's code)
Thanks

sburke781 · August 21, 2021, 1:20pm

We'll sort something out, whether I do it or someone else does, we'll get it back available sometime soon.

EDIT: I'll get it into my repository for now and back in to HPM, probably over the next week, if not tomorrow. Ultimately would like to see it in the Community repository, I just need to find out how that works.

If you need the code, it is available here. You will need to install it manually for the moment, I'll sort out the HPM stuff later, along with a more formal thread on the Community.

NerdShowAndTell · August 22, 2021, 9:05pm

Thanks for saving this.. I just installed this a week or so ago at my place, and now I'm installing 8 water sensors at my parents place for them.

Would love to know why it was just dumped.. Hope it wasn't a rage quit!

Shane

kahn-hubitat · August 23, 2021, 7:15pm

i have my modified version of this driver a version or too old that i will support.. not the latest release though.. i modified to add lastchange amount for temps so i could write rules to flag if device temps were going up or down.

github.com

lgkahn/hubitat/blob/master/ecowittgateway.groovy

/**
 * Driver:     Ecowitt WiFi Gateway
 * Author:     Mirco Caramori
 * Repository: https://github.com/mircolino/ecowitt
 * Import URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mircolino/ecowitt/master/ecowitt_gateway.groovy
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except
 * in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
 *
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed
 * on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License
 * for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
 *
 * Change Log:
 *
 * 2020.04.24 - Initial implementation
 * 2020.04.29 - Added GitHub versioning
 *            - Added support for more sensors: WH40, WH41, WH43, WS68 and WS80

This file has been truncated. show original

github.com

lgkahn/hubitat/blob/master/ecowittsensor.groovy

/**
 * Driver:     Ecowitt RF Sensor
 * Author:     Mirco Caramori
 * Repository: https://github.com/mircolino/ecowitt
 * Import URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mircolino/ecowitt/master/ecowitt_sensor.groovy
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except
 * in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
 *
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed
 * on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License
 * for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
 *
 * Change Log: shared with ecowitt_gateway.groovy
 * lgk add debugging with auto turn off so we can see if it is getting temp because it wont show an update event in hubitat logs if the same as last temp.
 * lgk add lastTemperatuer and lastHumidity attributes so we can easily write rules to trigger if the temp or humidity is going up or down.
 * I use this to alert when the hot tub will be at max in xx amount of time etc.
*/

This file has been truncated. show original

sburke781 · August 23, 2021, 7:17pm

Happy to add this in when I make my copy available in HPM. Will probably be in the next 48 hours I expect. Thanks for sharing the code.

OpenDave · August 28, 2021, 3:02pm

I also cloned his repo in case anyone needs it. If we want to put a community around his great driver, I will do my best to join in. I contributed one very tiny thing to him before, and could probably do some other stuff. As with everyone else, my time is limited, but happy to work as a team.

sburke781 · August 28, 2021, 4:23pm

That's good to know, thanks @OpenDave.

I did get the drivers up again in my home repository. Here are some instructions on transitioning to the new copies.