It was attached to the last message. On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 6:08 PM, Graham Gear <graham.g...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Thomas. > > The timezone on the Vantage looks to be correct for Perth and I was able > to set debug to 1 but could not find the instrumented version > of vantage.py, in the source repository nor installed distribution, could > you advise where this comes from? > > > 1. Run the utility wee_device with the --info flag: > > *wee_device --info* > > This will show what time zone the Vantage is using. Post the results. > > > graham@rochelle:~/dev/asystem$ sudo wee_device /etc/weewx/weewx.conf > --info > > Using configuration file /etc/weewx/weewx.conf > > Using Vantage driver version 3.0.9 (weewx.drivers.vantage) > > Querying... > > Davis Vantage EEPROM settings: > > > > CONSOLE TYPE: VantagePro2 > > > > CONSOLE FIRMWARE: > > Date: Jun 3 2013 > > Version: 3.15 > > > > CONSOLE SETTINGS: > > Archive interval: 1800 (seconds) > > Altitude: 630 (foot) > > Wind cup type: large > > Rain bucket type: 0.01 inches > > Rain year start: 1 > > Onboard time: 2016-12-01 09:53:03 > > > > CONSOLE DISPLAY UNITS: > > Barometer: mmHg > > Temperature: degree_C > > Rain: mm > > Wind: meter_per_second > > > > CONSOLE STATION INFO: > > Latitude (onboard): +31.5 > > Longitude (onboard): -116.0 > > Use manual or auto DST? MANUAL > > DST setting: OFF > > Use GMT offset or zone code? ZONE_CODE > > Time zone code: 38 > > GMT offset: N/A > > > On 1 December 2016 at 09:48:54, Thomas Keffer (tkef...@gmail.com) wrote: > > 1. The vantage emits sunrise and sunset as a time offset since the start > of the day as HHMM. Weewx converts this into the number of seconds since > the start of day. > > 2. To this, is added the unix epoch time of the start of the day. > > So, if you're getting sunrise after a sunset, then the results of #1 must > be wrong (adding a constant offset doesn't change their relative times). > > If you could do two things for me: > > 1. Run the utility wee_device with the --info flag: > > *wee_device --info* > > This will show what time zone the Vantage is using. Post the results. > > 2. Substitute this instrumented version of vantage.py for the one you > have. Set debug=1, restart weewx, run it for a few loop packets (only a few > are needed). Send the log. It will show the raw and processed values for > sunrise and sunset. Be sure to set debug=1. > > -tk > > > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Graham Gear <graham.g...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am based in Perth, Western Australia in the AWST (GMT+8) timezone and >> running weewx on a Debian machine with correctly setup timezone: >> >> graham@rochelle:~/dev/asystem$ cat /etc/os-release >> PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)" >> NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux" >> VERSION_ID="8" >> VERSION="8 (jessie)" >> ID=raspbian >> ID_LIKE=debian >> HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"; >> SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"; >> BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"; >> >> >> >> graham@rochelle:~/dev/asystem$ date >> Thursday 1 December 08:23:21 AWST 2016 >> >> >> The Vantage is also setup timezone wise correctly and think that weewx >> might do something on this in any case. >> >> My issues is that I am unable to make head nor tail of the epochs I am >> getting out of the Vantage loop packets, there doesn't seem to be a >> timezone offset that would make sense of these, does anyone know how I can >> interpret them? >> >> The UI seems to do fine, although not sure if it is using the Vantage for >> this or its own internal calculations. If the later, is there a nice way I >> can get access to this (and other almanac details) from within a custom >> service? >> >> sunrise from loop packet: 1480602360 >> sunset from loop packet: 1480552860 >> >> sunrise from loop packet formated: 01/12/2016, 22:26:00 AWST >> sunset from loop packet formated: 01/12/2016, 08:41:00 AWST >> >> sunrise from UI: 05:02:10 >> sunset from UI: 19:07:23 >> >> Thanks for your help, perhaps I am missing something obvious, I always >> find time hard! >> >> Graham >> > >
