Gary - as far as I can see from the results from the queries I asked for the issue seems to be resolving why day_archive_wind has the same value AND time as day_archive_windGust when in the archive the max for windSpeed and windGust are different values.
On Friday, 13 January 2017 15:30:36 UTC+2, gjr80 wrote: > The SteelSeries Gauges template fields are correct (well the 10 min > average actually uses a 1 hour average but that is either here nor there). > > The fact the maximum windSpeed recorded in the archive is lower than the > what you get with $day.windSpeed.max is not surprising. The windSpeed > values in your archive are the average of the loop windSpeed values seen > over that archive period. So if over the first 5 minute archive period of > the day your station saw (loop) windSpeed values of 6,8,8,10,12 the value > 8.8 (44/5) would be recorded in the archive as windSpeed for that archive > period. The daily summaries keep track of the Highs and Lows. So the > windSpeed daily summary would record 12 as the max. As subsequent archive > periods roll over and loop packets come in additional records are added to > the archive (ie windSpeed will contain the average of the loop windSpeed > values over the archive period) and the Highs and Lows in the daily > summaries will be updated *if a new* High or Low was seen during that > archive period. So it is quite possible that the maximum windSpeed value > seen in all of the day's archive records is lower than that returned by > $day.windSpeed.max ($day.windSpeed.max pulls the max windSpeed value from > the daily summaries). In fact for windSpeed i woudl almost guarantee that > the max value in the archive will be less than $day.windSpeed.max. The > exception is when the daily summaries are rebuilt all of the accumulated > detail of highs and lows and their times are lost (ie the detail of the > loop data is lost) and the daily summaries are rebuilt frome the (largely) > 'averaged' archive data. > > The real tell will be a query of both the windSpeed and windGust daily > summaries. If you do: > > SELECT * FROM archive_day_windSpeed ORDER BY dateTime DESC LIMIT 1; > > and then > > SELECT * FROM archive_day_windGust ORDER BY dateTime DESC LIMIT 1; > > I'll bet the values in both of the max columns are the same (the maxtimes > will likely be different). That is not right and that is why > $day.windSpeed.max and $day.windGust.max are returning the same values. > (coincidentally, I get the exact same results on my system with a different > station so it is not an issue with the station). How weewx handles wind obs > is complex, and whilst the issue has been identified I think a bit more > analysis will be required to work any possible fix. > > Gary > -- 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.
