Adding Water Temp, Water Level and Lightning

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Adding Water Temp, Water Level and Lightning

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I've added 3 more sensors to my weather station, Water Temperature, Water Level, and a lightning detector. Is there a way to put these into Meteohub ? They are showing up in the log right now but I'm loading them into odd variables.

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Re: Adding Water Temp, Water Level and Lightning

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you can define a plug-in weather station to feed that data into meteohub.
Format of data expected from a plugin is explained somewhere in the manual.
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You mention it's in the manual, but I can't find any place to define new fields. I can already load the standard fields, and that works just fine. But there doesn't seem to a place to load something like lightning strikes where it would be retrievable after. Can you give me a bit more specific help ?
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you cant add fields.
When you have new types of values you have to place this into "data" sensors which can hold one unique type of value.
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Re: Adding Water Temp, Water Level and Lightning

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I have the new weather station "working" in that it is now sending the appropriately formatted commands. It is transmitting via an XBEE to a device attached to the Meteohub, and one attached to my boat. The one on the boat is working perfectly.

However the Meteohub itself does not seem to be receiving them correctly. When I hook up the device to my PC and monitor the USB, the commands are coming through just fine. When I hook it up to the Meteo, I don't see anything.

USB is sending at 9600-8-N-1

I can't find anything in the documentation for plug in that would help me here. Hints ?
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