Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 1/9/2023
Welcome to today’s daily kōrero! Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it! Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc. So, how’s it going?
Today I’m gonna see if I can work out how to calculate the water content of air based on humidity and temperature, and implement this as a template in Home Assistant.
I guess using the August–Roche–Magnus formula? But I haven’t worked out how to convert it into a template yet (it’s my first time using a template).
I got sick of seeing the relative humidity rise and fall with the temperature, and since it’s never close to condensing I thought I’d try to get a measurement that’s a bit more stable.
Haha when you mentioned it, I thought maybe dewpoint was easier to calculate. It’s not.
Edit: Oh, but there’s this: simple approximation. That could work!
Yeah, I used the simple version originally. I switched to the harder one because it’s available via the R package.
But I’m pretty sure there’s very little difference in practice.
Dave
SamC