Yeah, turns out the sensor is bad :-)  Called Acurite, I gave them the QC code 
and they said "We'll send you a new one"

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Clay Jackson


> On Feb 18, 2017, at 7:35 AM, mwall <mw...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Monday, February 13, 2017 at 7:14:55 PM UTC-5, Clay Jackson wrote:
>> Trying to use an Acurite Lightning Sensor in my greenhouse as extraTemp1. 
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> I changed all of .tmpl files from “Pond” to Grenhouse (did not change the 
>> var names) and the graph/texts are showing up fine; BUT., the units are 
>> wrong.  The sensor is reporting degrees F; but somewhere BEFORE it lands in 
>> the database (archive and extraTemp tables) the value (around 43 f) is 
>> getting converted as if it was centigrade (what’s stored in the database is 
>> around 109).
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> I looked in units.py and extraTemp1 is in the temperature group, which is 
>> set for degrees F.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Any suggestions on where to fix this?
>> 
> 
> clay,
> 
> did you figure this out?
> 
> you are probably inserting a value for temperature in F into a loop packet or 
> archive record whose unit system is METRIC or METRICWX
> 
> m 
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