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ashvale-station/scripts/simulate.py
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kemal b9a468542d Match the simulator's barometer noise to a real LPS25HB
The generator added 0.05 hPa of measurement noise where a real board shows
0.0224 hPa as the sd of the change between 30 s samples. Twice the noise
flatters any smoother tested against it and understates the skill available
at short lead, which is where the pressure heads were already weakest.

Correcting my own earlier claim: I reported the simulator's pressure as 60x
too noisy. That figure came from comparing the old local database, whose rows
are hourly-tier aggregates spanning 251 days, against 30 s rows from the
station. Generated like for like at matched cadence the gap is 1.9x, not 60x,
and the simulator was never the blocker on pressure work that I described.

A gap remains after this change: press_slp still steps 0.0415 hPa per 30 s
against the station's 0.0224. That residue is the synoptic OU process moving
faster than Cambridge did over these four days, which is a weather-realism
question rather than a sensor one. Four days of one room is not enough to
retune a synoptic model against, so it is left alone and recorded here.
2026-08-19 19:16:57 +01:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
# Copyright 2026 Kemal Yaylali
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"""Seed the database with synthetic history.
Why this exists: a freshly flashed Pi has no history, and a forecaster
with no history is a random number generator with a nice dashboard. This
script writes physically plausible past telemetry so you can exercise
training, verification and the whole dashboard before the real station
has logged its first night.
The generator is not a toy. It is a three-component stochastic model:
pressure Ornstein-Uhlenbeck, tau = 30 h, sigma = 9 hPa
(roughly the observed synoptic variability of NW Europe)
temperature seasonal harmonic + solar-driven diurnal cycle
+ OU anomaly (tau = 6 h), with a nocturnal inversion term
humidity driven inversely by temperature about a dew point that
itself performs a slow random walk, which is what makes
RH and T correlate the way they actually do
Everything is then pushed through the same CPU-heating and noise model
the real sensor suffers from, so a model trained here does not fall over
when it meets real data.
python scripts/simulate.py --days 21 --wipe
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import math
import sys
import time
from pathlib import Path
import numpy as np
sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent))
from ashvale.config import load_config # noqa: E402
from ashvale.estimation import SignalTracker # noqa: E402
from ashvale.physics import ( # noqa: E402
clear_sky_irradiance,
dew_point,
sea_level_pressure,
solar_position,
)
from ashvale.sensors import ( # noqa: E402
K_HTS221,
K_LPS25HB,
SD_HTS221,
SD_LPS25HB,
)
from ashvale.storage import Store # noqa: E402
def generate(days: float, step_s: int, lat: float, lon: float,
seed: int = 11, end: float | None = None,
psychrometric: bool = False) -> dict:
rng = np.random.default_rng(seed)
n = int(days * 86400 / step_s)
# Anchoring to wall clock makes a fixed seed insufficient for reproducibility:
# the OU realisation repeats, but the timestamps shift, which moves solar
# elevation, day of year and the seasonal harmonic. Those feed the temperature
# model directly, so two same-seed runs produce different data. Pin end as well
# and the backfill becomes bit-reproducible, which is what before/after
# evidence on a model change actually requires.
end = time.time() if end is None else end
ts = end - np.arange(n)[::-1] * step_s
# --- synoptic pressure: OU process
tau_p, sigma_p = 30 * 3600.0, 9.0
press = np.zeros(n)
a = math.exp(-step_s / tau_p)
noise_scale = sigma_p * math.sqrt(1 - a * a)
for i in range(1, n):
press[i] = a * press[i - 1] + noise_scale * rng.normal()
press_slp = 1013.0 + press
# --- solar forcing
elev, _ = solar_position(ts, lat, lon)
elev = np.atleast_1d(elev)
ghi = clear_sky_irradiance(elev)
cloud = np.clip(0.45 + 0.35 * np.sin(2 * np.pi * ts / (4.5 * 86400)) +
0.25 * rng.normal(size=n).cumsum() / math.sqrt(n), 0.0, 1.0)
lux = np.maximum(ghi * 45.0 * (1.0 - 0.85 * cloud), 0.0) + 6.0
# --- temperature: season + diurnal + OU anomaly + inversion at night
doy = np.array([time.gmtime(float(t)).tm_yday for t in ts])
seasonal = 6.5 * np.sin(2 * np.pi * (doy - 105) / 365.25)
diurnal = 0.011 * ghi * (1.0 - 0.6 * cloud)
inversion = -1.8 * (elev < -3).astype(float) * (1.0 - cloud)
tau_t, sigma_t = 6 * 3600.0, 1.9
at = math.exp(-step_s / tau_t)
anom = np.zeros(n)
for i in range(1, n):
anom[i] = at * anom[i - 1] + sigma_t * math.sqrt(1 - at * at) * rng.normal()
# pressure and temperature anomalies are correlated in the real world
anom += 0.12 * press
temp = 11.5 + seasonal + diurnal + inversion + anom
# --- humidity via a slowly wandering dew point
dew = temp - 4.5 + 2.5 * np.sin(2 * np.pi * ts / (3.2 * 86400))
dew -= 0.10 * press
dew = np.minimum(dew, temp - 0.2)
es_t = 6.112 * np.exp(17.625 * temp / (243.04 + temp))
es_d = 6.112 * np.exp(17.625 * dew / (243.04 + dew))
rh = np.clip(100.0 * es_d / es_t, 8.0, 100.0)
# CPU temperature: a slow AR(1) load process, not white noise. A Zero 2 W
# under a steady FastAPI load drifts by a degree or two over minutes, it
# does not jitter by four degrees between samples.
cpu_load = np.zeros(n)
a_cpu = math.exp(-step_s / (900.0))
for i in range(1, n):
cpu_load[i] = a_cpu * cpu_load[i - 1] + 1.6 * math.sqrt(1 - a_cpu * a_cpu) * rng.normal()
cpu = temp + 21.0 + cpu_load
# The sensor sits in a thermal gradient between the room and the SoC.
# The compensator inverts T = T_raw - k (T_cpu - T_raw), so the forward
# model must be its exact inverse: T_raw = (T + k T_cpu) / (1 + k).
# Generating it any other way bakes a bias into the synthetic data that
# no amount of calibration can remove, and quietly caps your skill score.
# Two thermometers, not one, because the board has two. Their forward
# models average to the k = 0.55 case this used to generate directly, so
# temp_raw is unchanged in expectation. Its noise is not: a real board
# averages sd 0.060 with sd 0.443 and lands at 0.223, where this used to
# claim 0.05. Simulating the quiet sensor and calling it the average is
# what let an over-optimistic measurement noise go unnoticed.
temp_h = (temp + K_HTS221 * cpu) / (1.0 + K_HTS221) + SD_HTS221 * rng.normal(size=n)
temp_p = (temp + K_LPS25HB * cpu) / (1.0 + K_LPS25HB) + SD_LPS25HB * rng.normal(size=n)
temp_raw = (temp_h + temp_p) / 2.0
# If the compensator will move RH from the element temperature onto the air
# temperature, the forward model here must be its exact inverse, or the
# synthetic data bakes in a bias no calibration can remove. Same trap as the
# thermal algebra above. Off by default, matching sensor.hum_psychrometric.
if psychrometric:
es_raw = 6.112 * np.exp(17.625 * temp_raw / (243.04 + temp_raw))
rh_sensor = np.clip(rh * es_t / es_raw, 0.0, 100.0)
else:
rh_sensor = rh
press_station = press_slp / (1.0 + 0.0) - 1.8 # nominal 15 m offset
# 0.02 hPa, measured on a real LPS25HB as the sd of the change between
# 30 s samples. The 0.05 this used to carry made simulated pressure about
# twice as noisy as the real thing, which flatters any smoother tested
# against it and understates the skill available at short lead.
press_station += 0.02 * rng.normal(size=n)
return {
"ts": ts, "temp": temp, "temp_raw": temp_raw,
"temp_h": temp_h, "temp_p": temp_p,
"rh": rh_sensor + 0.4 * rng.normal(size=n),
"press": press_station, "press_slp": press_slp, "cpu": cpu,
"lux": lux * (0.85 + 0.3 * rng.random(n)), "dew": dew, "cloud": cloud,
}
def main() -> None:
ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__,
formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter)
ap.add_argument("--days", type=float, default=14.0)
ap.add_argument("--step", type=int, default=300, help="seconds between rows")
ap.add_argument("--seed", type=int, default=11)
ap.add_argument("--end", type=float, default=None,
help="unix timestamp the history ends at; defaults to now. "
"Pin it with --seed for a bit-reproducible backfill")
ap.add_argument("--wipe", action="store_true", help="clear existing telemetry first")
ap.add_argument("--config", default=None)
args = ap.parse_args()
cfg = load_config(args.config)
store = Store(cfg.storage.db_path)
# The Kalman process noise is tuned for the real sampling cadence (2 s).
# Backfilling at 300 s steps with the same q gives Q_level = q*dt^3/3, which
# is five orders of magnitude larger, so the filter abandons smoothing and
# tracks measurement noise. Its rate estimates then blow past anything
# physical and poison the all-time records. Scale q by (real_dt/step)^3 so
# the synthetic history has the same effective smoothing as the live station.
scale = (cfg.sensor.sample_period_s / float(args.step)) ** 3
cfg.sensor.kalman_q_temp *= scale
cfg.sensor.kalman_q_hum *= scale
cfg.sensor.kalman_q_press *= scale
if args.wipe:
with store._conn() as conn:
conn.execute("DELETE FROM telemetry")
conn.execute("DELETE FROM forecasts")
conn.execute("DELETE FROM scores")
print("cleared existing telemetry, forecasts and scores")
data = generate(args.days, args.step, cfg.site.latitude, cfg.site.longitude,
args.seed, args.end, cfg.sensor.hum_psychrometric)
tracker = SignalTracker(cfg)
n = data["ts"].size
t0 = time.time()
for i in range(n):
ts = float(data["ts"][i])
est = tracker.step(ts, float(data["temp_raw"][i]), float(data["rh"][i]),
float(data["press"][i]), float(data["cpu"][i]))
slp = float(sea_level_pressure(est["press_smooth"], est["temp_smooth"],
cfg.site.altitude_m))
store.insert_telemetry({
"ts": ts,
"temp_raw": data["temp_raw"][i],
"temp_h": data["temp_h"][i],
"temp_p": data["temp_p"][i],
"temp_c": est["temp_c"],
"temp_smooth": est["temp_smooth"],
"temp_rate": est["temp_rate"],
"hum": data["rh"][i],
"hum_smooth": est["hum_smooth"],
"press": data["press"][i],
"press_slp": slp,
"press_smooth": est["press_smooth"],
"press_rate": est["press_rate"],
"cpu_temp": data["cpu"][i],
"dew_c": float(dew_point(est["temp_smooth"], est["hum_smooth"])),
"lux": data["lux"][i],
"r": data["lux"][i] * 0.30, "g": data["lux"][i] * 0.34, "b": data["lux"][i] * 0.28,
"pitch": 0.0, "roll": 0.0, "yaw": 180.0, "compass": 180.0,
"ax": 0.0, "ay": 0.0, "az": 1.0, "gx": 0.0, "gy": 0.0, "gz": 0.0,
})
if i % 500 == 0:
print(f" {i}/{n} rows", end="\r", flush=True)
print(f"\nwrote {n} rows spanning {args.days:.1f} days in {time.time() - t0:.1f}s")
print(f"database: {cfg.storage.db_path}")
print("next: python scripts/evaluate.py (or just start the server)")
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()