Thanks so much for the quick response. I felt it was something I missed in
the setup.
Changes made. Need the next thunderstorm to make sure it is working.
Also thanks for the suggestion on LightningDistance. I changed the field
to REAL.
On Saturday, September 23, 2017 at 7:03:21 PM UTC-4, mwall wrote:
>
>
>
> On Saturday, September 23, 2017 at 5:40:05 PM UTC-4, Paul Oversmith wrote:
>>
>> I am having a real problem with the graph for lightning strikes using an
>> Acurite 6045 lighting detector and the weewx-sdr driver.
>>
>> The total number of strikes and distance reports correctly, the strikes
>> (delta) is not right (the strike are reported as .02 to .06 rather than an
>> integer count, please see attached image).
>> I have put monitors in the _calculate_delta(label, newtotal, oldtotal)
>> routine and the values for newtotal and oldtotal are correct and show a
>> difference of 1 when there is a strike.
>>
>> I tried several different setup options, but none fixed the situation. I
>> suspect it has something to do with the time frame and the averaging of
>> strikes over an interval rather than just reporting the quality,
>>
>> But I am at a loss to see what I have setup incorrectly.
>>
>> Hope someone has a suggestion to fix the problem.
>>
>
> paul,
>
> thank you for the detailed problem description. you need to set the
> accumulator for the lightning database field. as of weewx 3.7, you can do
> this in the weewx configuration file, like this:
>
> [Accumulator]
>
> [[LightningStrikes]]
> extractor = sum
>
> [[LightningStrikesTotal]]
> extractor = sum
>
> you probably want 'REAL' instead of 'INTEGER' for the 'LightningDistance'
> field (that will require re-creating the database, or manually modifying
> the schema in sql)
>
> m
>
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