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GW1000 Driver

The GW1000 driver is a WeeWX driver based on the GW1000 WiFi Gateway device API. The GW1000 driver may be operated either as a WeeWX driver or as a WeeWX service to augment data from an existing driver. The current GW1000 driver version is v0.4.2 which is compatible with WeeWX 3.7.x and later when run under Python 2 and WeeWX 4.0.0 and later when run under Python 3.

Getting Started

• Quick Start Guide

  This is the first point of call for most users, it provides instructions to do a basic default install to get you started which you can later refine.

• Upgrade Guide

  How to upgrade an existing installation, including specific instructions for upgrading to a given version.

• Uninstallation

  How to uninstall the GW1000 driver.

Customising Your Installation

• Available config options

  Details of available config options when running the GW1000 driver as a driver or as a service.

• Adapting the Seasons skin to display a new field

  How to adapt the WeeWX v4.6.3 and earlier Seasons skin to display additional GW1000 sensor data.

• Adapting the Seasons skin to display GW1000 sensor battery states

  How to adapt the WeeWX v4.6.3 and earlier Seasons skin to display GW1000 sensor battery states.

Miscellaneous

• Understanding GW1000 radiation fields

  The various radiation related fields provided by the GW1000 and their use within WeeWX.

• Changes to 24 hour average particulate concentration field names

  Changes to 24 hour average particulate concentration field names introduced in the GW1000 driver v0.2.0.

• Sensor battery state reporting

  Details of the battery state values reported for each sensor type.

Troubleshooting

• Support

  Support is via the weewx user forum on Google Forums.

• Debug output

  How to obtain debug output from the GW1000 driver.