[weewx-user] Re: No rain data for Acurite 5n1 - not getting parsed

2020-05-24 Thread Andrew Mackey
Here is a little bit more detail. Please note that the I updated the file: /usr/share/weewx/user/sdr.py by adding the lines highlight by gjr80 to the section under 'class Acurite5n1PacketV2(Packet):' This is how I fixed the first part of the problem where the out data portion of running

[weewx-user] Re: No rain data for Acurite 5n1 - not getting parsed

2020-05-24 Thread Andrew Mackey
I have my rain data showing up now. As I was able to determine, my situation does require me to use the SDR option instead of the Acurite 5N1 option when configuring my setup. As I had mentioned, I added the correct line to the SDR.py file which resulted in the rain data being parsed

[weewx-user] Re: No rain data for Acurite 5n1 - not getting parsed

2020-05-23 Thread 'Rob Series' via weewx-user
I suspect the parsing problem is caused by update to RTL_433 in August 2019. See my post of 20 May below. Rob Series On Thursday, 21 May 2020 16:08:46 UTC+1, Andrew Mackey wrote: > > Gary, > > thank you for your post. It has been helpful. I have made some progress > now. > > First I think I

[weewx-user] Re: No rain data for Acurite 5n1 - not getting parsed

2020-05-21 Thread Andrew Mackey
Gary, thank you for your post. It has been helpful. I have made some progress now. First I think I might be confused about how to set up my config file as to whether I am using the SDR option or the Acurite Option when configuring my station. I have come to the conclusion that choosing SDR

[weewx-user] Re: No rain data for Acurite 5n1 - not getting parsed

2020-05-21 Thread Gazza
rtl_433 version 20.02-26-ge571a05 from Feb 2020 has broken every sensor I have in lots of ways, numerous identifiers have changed names so nothing works out of the box at the moment. The edit above fixed the rain reading on my mates new Acurite station but the battery status is still not

[weewx-user] Re: No rain data for Acurite 5n1 - not getting parsed

2020-05-20 Thread gjr80
Hi, Not a sdr driver or Acurite user but looking at the sdr driver as far as I can tell the sdr driver expects Acurite5n1PacketV2 rain data to be in field rain_mm whereas you appear to have rain_in. You could try adding the following two highlighted lines to /usr/share/weewx/user/sdr.py: