You have your latitude set to +31.5. It should be -31.5. You're the land down under!
-tk On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 6:15 PM, Graham Gear <[email protected]> wrote: > Of course it was, sorry, didn’t notice it! > > 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. >> >> > graham@rochelle:/usr/share/weewx/weewx/drivers$ tail -f /var/log/syslog | > grep weewx > > Dec 1 10:13:16 rochelle weewx[18658]: vantage: Final sunrise > (1480602360), sunset (1480552860). > > Dec 1 10:13:18 rochelle weewx[18658]: vantage: Raw sunrise (2226), sunset > (841). > > Dec 1 10:13:18 rochelle weewx[18658]: vantage: Offset sunrise (80760), > sunset (31260). > > Dec 1 10:13:18 rochelle weewx[18658]: vantage: Final sunrise > (1480602360), sunset (1480552860). > > Dec 1 10:13:20 rochelle weewx[18658]: vantage: Raw sunrise (2226), sunset > (841). > > Dec 1 10:13:20 rochelle weewx[18658]: vantage: Offset sunrise (80760), > sunset (31260). > > Dec 1 10:13:20 rochelle weewx[18658]: vantage: Final sunrise > (1480602360), sunset (1480552860). > > Dec 1 10:13:22 rochelle weewx[18658]: vantage: Raw sunrise (2226), sunset > (841). > > Dec 1 10:13:22 rochelle weewx[18658]: vantage: Offset sunrise (80760), > sunset (31260). > > Dec 1 10:13:22 rochelle weewx[18658]: vantage: Final sunrise > (1480602360), sunset (1480552860). > > Dec 1 10:13:24 rochelle weewx[18658]: vantage: Raw sunrise (2226), sunset > (841). > > Dec 1 10:13:24 rochelle weewx[18658]: vantage: Offset sunrise (80760), > sunset (31260). > > What do we think? > > Am I able to use the processed sunrise/sunset out of the loop packet or do > I need to query the almanac directly? > > Graham > > On 1 December 2016 at 10:11:00, Thomas Keffer ([email protected]) wrote: > > It was attached to the last message. > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 6:08 PM, Graham Gear <[email protected]> > 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 ([email protected]) 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 <[email protected]> >> 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 >>> >> >> >
