On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 07:06:09 +0000 Danielle Ratson wrote:

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Is the consumer of the JSON output supposed to be parsing the units and
making sure to scale the values every time it reads (e.g. divide by 1000 if it
wants W but unit is mW)?

Or the unit is fully implied by the key, and can't change? IOW the unit is only
listed so that the human writing the consumer can figure out the unit and then
hardcode it?  

Yes, the unit is implied by the key is hardcoded. Same as for the
regular output, it should give the costumer idea about the scale.
There are also temperature fields that could be either F or C
degrees. So overall , the units fields should align all the fields
that implies some sort of scale. 

Some sort of a schema would be a better place to document the unit
of the fields, IMO.