> As you can tell I am enthusiastic amateur...! >
That's no problem, I don't consider my self anything more that. On Friday, 19 May 2017 19:04:09 UTC+10, Pete Nevill wrote: > > SOLVED (Hopefully).... > Good news! > Three steps to get this working. > > 1) As Gary pointed out. Use the cumulative rain (since midnight) to > compute the rain since last update.So that the total rain _packet['rain'] > is correct for the update period (in my case this is 5min). > 2) Only send this information to weewx, ignore all the other rain > parameters, i.e. let weewx handle that. > Yes, exactly right, almost another rule of thumb 'if weeWX can do it then leave it alone and let weeWX do it' > 3) as per step 2) set in weewx.conf calculations section "rainRate" and > "dayRain" to "software". > You can omit dayRain from weewx.conf, it won't cause any harm but it isn't doing anything either - rainRate is the only rain related 'observation' that weeWX can derive from other observations. You might see dayRain appear in loop packets or archive records from some stations, but weeWX does nothing with it. If you are interested you can see what weeWX can derive if you look at class WXCalculate in bin/weewx/wxservices.py. Initial signs are looking good. Although after 24hrs of heavy rain here in > West London we now have blue sky! > > Thanks for all you help and guidance Gary. Just need to extract my correct > rain data from Wunderground and update weewx db... > If by this you mean importing historical (as distinct from live) WU data then as Andrew said wee_import is your friend. > > Pete. > F.Y.I. > here is a link to my PWS on wundergound. I have a webcam attached, note I > have overlain with imagemagik output from weewx (info created using > cheetah) on the webcam image. Hope you like it. > > > https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=ILONDON542 > Looks pretty smart, am sure you are better versed in London weather than I but if I had those clouds around here I woudl say it won't be too a long for some rain. 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.
