Re: [weewx-user] How does rain work in weewx?

2018-08-21 Thread David Moore
When I said hard coded, I meant written into the default installed application somewhere, and not in the weewx.conf file. btw: as per my above attempts, when you do your "non-explicit" version it doesn't work. You either have to be explicit about rain in deltas, OR you have to put rain =

Re: [weewx-user] How does rain work in weewx?

2018-08-21 Thread mwall
On Tuesday, August 21, 2018 at 5:59:51 AM UTC-4, David Moore wrote: > > So, I think you're saying that rain is a hard-coded value that does a > delta on rain_total. > rain_total is something I must assign to a measurement. >> >> >> 'rain' is not hard-coded as a delta. but 'rain' is in the list

Re: [weewx-user] How does rain work in weewx?

2018-08-21 Thread David Moore
So, I think you're saying that rain is a hard-coded value that does a delta on rain_total. rain_total is something I must assign to a measurement. However it looks like you still need to declare rain in the sensor map... When I had rain = rain_total.0B4E.Acurite5n1Packet

Re: [weewx-user] How does rain work in weewx?

2018-08-18 Thread Matthew Wall
david, the sdr driver defines a special type of variable called a 'delta' any delta variable will be calculated by taking the difference of the current value and the previous value for example, 'rain' is a delta variable, and it is calculated by the differences in the 'rain_total' observation