examples/custom-wx.example.py

   1 # reference implementation for an infoex-autowx custom Wx data provider
   2
   3 # global variable which will hold the Wx data to be uploaded to InfoEx
   4 wx_data = {}
   5
   6 # the following data types are supported by infoex-autowx
   7 wx_data['precipitationGauge'] = None
   8 wx_data['tempPres'] = None
   9 wx_data['tempMaxHour'] = None
  10 wx_data['tempMinHour'] = None
  11 wx_data['hS'] = None
  12 wx_data['baro'] = None
  13 wx_data['rH'] = None
  14 wx_data['windSpeedNum'] = None
  15 wx_data['windDirectionNum'] = None
  16 wx_data['windGustSpeedNum'] = None
  17
  18 def get_custom_data():
  19     # This function will be called by infoex-autowx, and the `wx_data`
  20     # variable (a global variable within this program) will be returned.
  21     #
  22     # For example, maybe you will `import psycopg2` and grab your data
  23     # from a local PostgreSQL database. Or maybe you will use the
  24     # requests library to fetch a remote web page and parse out the data
  25     # that's meaningful to your operation.
  26     #
  27     # Whatever your program needs to do to get its data can be done
  28     # either here in this function directly, or elsewhere with
  29     # modification to the global variable `wx_data`.
  30     #
  31     # NOTE: The LOG class from infoex-autowx is available, so you may
  32     #       issue e.g. LOG.info('some helpful information') in your
  33     #       program.
  34
  35     return wx_data