And I just talked to Acurite – read them the “QC” number off the battery cover and they said “we’re sending you a new one”. :)
From: weewx-user@googlegroups.com [mailto:weewx-user@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Clay Jackson Sent: Friday, February 17, 2017 11:28 AM To: weewx-user@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: [weewx-user] acurite lightning detector Just did the “hard reset” routine – left batteries out for several hours. The sensor is in a room where the tempo ranges from about 64-75. Last night, for about 2 hours, it APPEARED to be reading OK – fluctuating right around 65, in line with a mercury thermometer I use for testing. Came in this morning, it started a few degrees low (61 – mercury was 66) but has since climbed WAY above, mercury reading 75, sensor reading 87.8 Other than a bad sensor, anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance! Clay Jackson From: weewx-user@googlegroups.com <mailto:weewx-user@googlegroups.com> [mailto:weewx-user@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Clay Jackson Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2017 3:20 PM To: weewx-user@googlegroups.com <mailto:weewx-user@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: [weewx-user] acurite lightning detector Downloaded and it's now capturing - temp is way off (30+ degrees high); but I suspect that's either an RTL or Acurite issue Sent from my iPhone Clay Jackson On Feb 16, 2017, at 12:21 PM, Clay Jackson <cl...@nwlink.com <mailto:cl...@nwlink.com> > wrote: Hi, Matt – so, here’s what I see in weewx.log Feb 16 12:18:41 Weather weewx[14361]: sdr: MainThread: AcuriteLightningPacket: unrecognized data: '2017-02-16 20:18:41 Acurite lightning 0x2B6F Ch A Msg Type 0x4f: 67 C 66 % RH Strikes 3 Distance 31 - c0 2b 6f 42 cf c3 03 9f d0*#012' And here’s the SDR part of my config [SDR] # This section is for the software-defined radio driver. # The driver to use driver = user.sdr path = /usr/local/bin [[sensor_map]] windDir = wind_dir.04C9.Acurite5n1Packet windSpeed = wind_speed.04C9.Acurite5n1Packet outTemp = temperature.04C9.Acurite5n1Packet outHumidity = humidity.04C9.Acurite5n1Packet rain_total = rain_total.04C9.Acurite5n1Packet extraTemp1 = temperature.2B6F.AcuriteLightningPacket extraHumid1 = humidity.2B6F.AcuriteLightningPacket strikes = strikes_total.2B6F.AcuriteLightningPacket [[deltas]] strikes = strikes_total Haven’t done a debug yet; but will report that next. From: weewx-user@googlegroups.com <mailto:weewx-user@googlegroups.com> [mailto:weewx-user@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of mwall Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 6:52 AM To: weewx-user <weewx-user@googlegroups.com <mailto:weewx-user@googlegroups.com> > Subject: [weewx-user] acurite lightning detector > From: Clay Jackson > Subject: Acurite Lighning Sensor > Date: 13 February 2017 23:21:23 EST > > Hi, Matthew – new topic/question. I have one of the Acurite Lighting > sensors and would like to > integrate it into the weewx SDR. It looks right now as if it’s not really > supported. I tried just > mapping the senors and got some screwy results (see an earlier post). Then I > went back > and read the code; and it looks like the RTL driver is just dumping data, > rather than doing > a “real” decode. I’d be happy to work with you on seeing if we can get it > working – let me > know if you’d like to try that. > > Thanks! > > Clay Jackson clay, this is typical output from the lightning detector, as returned by rtl_433: 2016-11-04 04:34:58 Acurite lightning 0x536F Ch A Msg Type 0x51: 15 C 58 % RH Strikes 50 Distance 69 - c0 53 6f 3a d1 0f b2 c5 13* 2016-11-04 04:43:14 Acurite lightning 0x536F Ch A Msg Type 0x51: 15 C 58 % RH Strikes 55 Distance 5 - c0 53 6f 3a d1 0f b7 05 58* with a SDR configuration and sensor_map like this: [SDR] driver = user.sdr cmd = rtl_433 -q -U -G -F json [[sensor_map]] windDir = wind_dir.0BFA.Acurite5n1Packet windSpeed = wind_speed.0BFA.Acurite5n1Packet outTemp = temperature.0BFA.Acurite5n1Packet outHumidity = humidity.0BFA.Acurite5n1Packet outTempBatteryStatus = battery.0BFA.Acurite5n1Packet inTemp = temperature.24A4.AcuriteTowerPacket inHumidity = humidity.24A4.AcuriteTowerPacket txBatteryStatus = battery.24A4.AcuriteTowerPacket extraTemp2 = temperature.526F.AcuriteLightningPacket extraHumid2 = humidity.526F.AcuriteLightningPacket distance = distance.526F.AcuriteLightningPacket strikes_total = strikes_total.526F.AcuriteLightningPacket [[deltas]] strikes = strikes_total the weewx-sdr driver parses lightning sensor output into packets something like this: LOOP: 2017-02-14 09:50:31 EST (1487083831) altimeter: None, appTemp: None, barometer: None, cloudbase: None, dateTime: 1487083831, dewpoint: None, distance: 15.0, extraHumid2: 35.0, extraTemp2: 55.4, heatindex: None, humidex: None, inDewpoint: None, maxSolarRad: None, rainRate: 0, strikes: 0.0, strikes_total: 61.0, usUnits: 1, windchill: None is that what you see? m -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. 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