Isn't the situation a little more complicated?
Now that I have my weather station talking to INDI, I see five parameters in the options tab:
- rain (precip)
- temperature
- wind
- gust
- forecast
I don't use Gust, and I mapped 'Forecast' to clouds. So far, I haven't looked in the source code how this is handled.
In the Main Control and Parameters tabs I see four parameters:
- Weather
- Rain
- Temperature
- Wind
Since I don't use 'Gust' I don't expect it to turn up in Main Control
Other parameters that my meteostation reports, such as timestamp, pressure, humidity and dew point, also don't show up, because they aren't mapped in Options
Atm I have my meteostation indoors for testing, and the cloud sensor shows 100 % cloud. When I change the limits for 'Weather' to 110, and 15 % warning, the marker in Main Control turns yellow. When I set the limit to 120, it turns green. At the (for me) default value of 50, it is red.
So, according to what I find, the parameter 'Forecast' in Options, is the same as 'Weather' in the Main Control and Parameters tabs. This can be filled with a 'clouds' reading from a cloud sensor. It works the same way as any of the other parameters.
Furthermore, with only Forecast/clouds in the "alert" zone, both the dome simulator driver and ekos scheduler show a red warning icon.
Parameter settings and labels are a bit confusing in the Weather Watcher driver, and ideally, this driver would use a skeleton file to define preset parameters. And these parameters should be called the same across the board. But the driver works, is flexible, and easy enough to work with, once you understand it.
Wim