There's nothing to stop you from recording totalRain in the database. But, of course, you won't know *when* that rain fell.
-tk On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Louis De Lange <[email protected]> wrote: > Tom, > > Initially I wanted to do exactly what you are proposing with the rain > measurements - until I realized that if weewx / my server goes offline for > a few days I will miss a chunk of incremental readings once I restart. So > it seemed a better route to read the last archived record and from there > calculate the incremental value. > > I am missing something? > > On Thursday, 12 January 2017 08:31:29 UTC-8, Tom Keffer wrote: >> >> No problem with saving the cumulative data. What I'm wondering about is >> your approach. Why mess with things like RecordBinder? >> >> Presumably, you're getting cumulative energy data off of some sensor, >> using a driver. That's the place to take the differences. >> >> Very similar to the strategy that many weewx drivers use of deriving rain >> from cumulative totalRain. >> >> -tk >> >> >> >> -- > 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.
