Actually I think there was a small hiccup in my weather station... looking
back in the history posted on WU... around 8am the temp rain rate both
spiked! I have never seen that before... I wonder how one could correct
that?
On Thursday, November 24, 2016 at 8:51:31 PM UTC-5, Jim W. wrote:
>
> Gary,
> Thanks for the response! When I installed weewx (DEB package) I never set
> up an archive. Maybe that's the problem?
> As you may surmise... I'm mostly just a hack... no programing experience!
> But I'm learning... albeit SLOWLY.
> I guess I'll look into setting up an archive.
> Thanks again for your suggestion!
> Happy Thanksgiving!
>
> On Thursday, November 24, 2016 at 6:15:26 PM UTC-5, gjr80 wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Have you looked in your archive to see what data is in the rain field?
>> Assuming you are using SQLite something like:
>>
>> $ sqlite3 /home/weewx/archive/weewx.sdb
>>
>> will open your database so you can query it. There are any number of
>> queries you could use to investigate the situation, but lets' start by
>> summing the rain over the last 24 hours:
>>
>> sqlite> SELECT sum(rain) FROM archive WHERE dateTime > strftime('%s',
>> 'now')-86400;
>>
>> what does that show? If it shows nothing then we do have aproblem. If it
>> gives you the obviously wrong result you can look further at the individual
>> records to see which are wrong:
>>
>> sqlite> SELECT dateTime, rain FROM archive WHERE dateTime > strftime('%s'
>> ,'now')-86400 AND rain > 0;
>>
>> depending on what you find will determine how to fix it.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> On Friday, 25 November 2016 08:39:52 UTC+10, Jim W. wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Now if I could figure out why $span($day_delta=1).rain.sum produces
>>> 384.19 in ??? Seems a bit high for 24 hours... especially considering
>>> we're in a drought! :-)
>>>
>>>
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