A simple Python script which provides a Bluetooth to MQTT gateway, easily extensible via custom workers. See https://github.com/zewelor/bt-mqtt-gateway/wiki for more information.
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Limit light level readings from MiFlora sensors #273
I noticed that periodically one of my MiFlora-monitored plants would report a DLI way too high, which is impossible for my plants. This turned out to be because they were getting a single illumination value that was incredibly high. I tracked it down, and it seems to be something like 400 million, which is suspiciously like 2^32 / 10, which is the maximum value from the sensor (there is a division by 10.0 in the code).
It might be that an all-1 reading has some meaning within the protocol that the library does not account for. Or it might be that the sensors have some bug that sometimes returns that value. I am not sure.
The solution in this PR is a hack, which basically just throws out any illumination value that is unrealistically high. I chose 10 times the maximum daylight value, as listed on the Wikipedia:
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I noticed that periodically one of my MiFlora-monitored plants would report a DLI way too high, which is impossible for my plants. This turned out to be because they were getting a single illumination value that was incredibly high. I tracked it down, and it seems to be something like 400 million, which is suspiciously like 2^32 / 10, which is the maximum value from the sensor (there is a division by 10.0 in the code).
It might be that an all-1 reading has some meaning within the protocol that the library does not account for. Or it might be that the sensors have some bug that sometimes returns that value. I am not sure.
The solution in this PR is a hack, which basically just throws out any illumination value that is unrealistically high. I chose 10 times the maximum daylight value, as listed on the Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lux
It should have no impact on properly-functioning sensors returning reasonable values.
So far it has prevented any additional weird values, although it has not yet been running two days.
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