Hello, Terry Again, weewx does not actually send rain rate to the WU. It sends the total amount of rain that fell during the last 60 minutes. WU then calculates rain rate from that using their magic formula. Apparently, in your case, their servers failed to calculate it at all.
I have learned from long experience not to go chasing problems with the WU servers. They are very unreliable and one could go crazy trying to work around their many limitations. -tk On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Terry Hardie <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tom, > > I'm having the same issue. I'm currently running on "software" mode, but > whenever there is a heavy downpour, Wunderground goes to "---": > > https://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/ > hdfForecast?query=-35.574%2C174.521&sp=IMARUANG2&MR=1 > > Here's a snippet from my DB: > > sqlite> select dateTime, rainRate from archive; > ... > 1474730700|0.0 > 1474731000|0.0 > 1474731300|0.0 > 1474731600|0.0800000000000001 > 1474731900|0.12 > 1474732200|0.12 > 1474732500|0.0799999999999999 > 1474732800|0.12 > 1474733100|0.2 > 1474733400|0.24 > 1474737300|0.2 > 1474737600|0.2 > 1474737900|0.16 > 1474738200|0.12 > 1474738500|0.04 > 1474738800|0.0 > 1474739100|0.0 > 1474739400|0.0 > > root@OfficeAP-ac:/home/weewx# bin/weewxd --version > 3.5.0 > > > > On Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 6:29:01 PM UTC-7, Tom Keffer wrote: >> >> Hello, Travis >> >> Weewx does not actually use rainRate for what it sends to the WU. >> Instead, it sums the amount of rain over the last hour, and sends that. >> >> So, let's see what's in the database. I'm assuming your time zone is EDT. >> >> If you have not done so, first install the utility sqlite3: >> >> *sudo apt-get install sqlite3* >> >> Then run it against your sqlite database: >> >> *sqlite3 /var/lib/weewx/weewx.sdb* >> sqlite> *select datetime(dateTime, 'unixepoch', 'localtime'), rain from >> archive where dateTime>= 1458100800 and dateTime <= 1458104400;* >> sqlite> *.quit* >> >> If I've done the time zone math correctly, this will show all the rain >> values between midnight and 1am your time for today (3/16). Please post the >> results. >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Travis Bully <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello All - >>> >>> I have a slight issue where my Weather Underground station is reporting >>> "--" for Precip. Rate. >>> >>> I'm running a Davis Envoy with the latest version of Weewx. >>> I'veverified that the rain rate is working from the sensor as I also have a >>> Vantage Pro2 Console where it displays as expected. >>> >>> Here's a link to my station: >>> http://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboa >>> rd?ID=KMICANTO5#history >>> >>> I've tried both "prefer_hardware" and "hardware" in my conf file. >>> >>> If someone could provide me with troubleshooting pointers, I'd be >>> grateful. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> >>> (attached my latest conf file) >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "weewx-user" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
