The rain bucket size should be set on your Vue console, or by using wee_device. Once properly set, the console will report in inches (not bucket tips), so there is nothing that needs to be set in the weewx.conf configuration file.
-tk On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 1:44 AM, John Cheesbrough <[email protected]> wrote: > I am now running Weewx 3.8.0 to download data from Weatherlink.com without > errors reported using Wlink 0.11 driver. > However when I validate the data I find that the rain is overstated. > > I am using a Davis Vue ISS with a 0.2 mm bucket and not a US version. Does > the driver know from each archive record which bucket is being used or do I > need to add this to a config file? if it needs to be added to the config > file what is the format? Or do I need to do something else? > > I have had the same problem when using weatherlink 6.0.3 software to > download from either the console or weatherlink.com. The cause was that I > had defined the bucket in the weatherlink 6.0.3 software as the US size. > This resulted in each click of the bucket representing more than it should. > Therefore the more rainfall in a day the greater the error. Once I had > changed the bucket size in the software to the correct version the rain > data was correct. If I wanted to see rainfall data as inches I use the > software to do the conversion. > > Thanks > John > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
