Hi,

The message you saw can most likely be ignored. The WMR300 reports a 
cumulative rain total rather than an incremental rain value (ie rainfall 
per period). WeeWX stores 'rainfall per archive period' so the WMR300 
driver needs to calculate an incremental rainfall value from the cumulative 
value reported by the station. This is done by keeping track of the last 
cumulative rain value from the station and calculating the incremental 
value as the difference between the current cumulative rain value and the 
last cumulative rain value. This works fine once the driver has been 
running long enough to have received two packets with cumulative rain data. 
However, when the driver (read weeWX) first starts, the driver has no idea 
what the last cumulative rain value (ie the 'old' value) was so it is set 
to None. When the first packet is received by the driver with cumulative 
rain data (let's say 43.688) the driver cannot calculate the incremental 
rainfall as it does not know the 'old' value. Consequently, you get a 
message like you saw. When the next packet arrives with cumulative rainfall 
data it should work fine as the driver now has an 'old' value.

So if you are seeing the message you saw when you first startup weeWX then 
that is normal operation and nothing to worry about. However, if you are 
seeing this message regularly and it's not associated with a weeWX 
start/restart then something is wrong.

Gary

On Wednesday, 26 July 2017 02:02:58 UTC+10, Juan Antonio Mosquera wrote:
>
> What does this log message mean in the WMR300 ?, I searched the net and 
> found nothing (for now)
>
> wmr300: possible missed rain event: new=43.688 old=None
> wmr300: rain=None rain_total=43.688 last_rain=None
>
>
>
> Thank you!
>

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