Hello,
I noticed today that the Station_ID changes when the location of the sensor is changed.
I vaguely remember reading something about this, but I couldn’t find it anymore.
Why does the Station_ID change?
Doesn’t that cause more problems than keeping the Station_ID?
Regards,
Oliver
Dear Oliver,
I’ve neither experienced nor approached this problem yet, so I will need to learn more details about it.
Maybe it was the thing that @davro reported at [LDI] Continuity for changing "station_id" of a sensor · Issue #25 · earthobservations/luftdatenpumpe · GitHub – does that sound familiar?
Please let me know if you think there is something wrong with Luftdatenpumpe.
On the other hand, if you think some procedure may be flawed on the Sensor.Community backend, you may want to investigate and/or ask at https://forum.sensor.community/. From a quick search, I’ve only be able to discover Changing location of a sensor on devices.sensor.community/sensors - Forum Sensor.Community, which sounds unsuspicious.
If you think Luftdatenpumpe should provide another convience feature, to work around that specific problem, if possible at all, please see my suggestion at [1] and let me know if you think that could help.
With kind regards,
Andreas.
So, my first question, just out of curiosity, is: How does a place/location of a sensor change, and how is that detail submitted to the data collector instance?
Via https://devices.sensor.community you can adjust the data to your sensors and if you change the location of the sensor there a bit, the StationID seems to change. (Under LDI, when it comes to stations, the sensor UID is used).
I see. Just to clarify: “location” is meant in terms of geolocation at lat/lon? In any case, I think it would be appropriate to ask over at https://forum.sensor.community/ about this detail then?
Let me know if you think this proposed feature could help on this matter, as a workaround for this upstream behavior, implemented on behalf of Luftdatenpumpe.