greg - what about for the day?? if it works for the day it should work for the rest - or are you saying it has always worked when using the day tag??
On Sunday, 6 May 2018 04:47:23 UTC+3, Greg from Oz wrote: > > OK. It is calm here at the moment but Friday was really windy so I won't > see anything until Monday for the week. Unless the wind picks up to over > 45kph! > > On Sunday, 6 May 2018 10:44:35 UTC+10, Thomas Keffer wrote: >> >> Excellent. >> >> The gust values will show up either on a new day, or if you hit a new >> wind speed max. >> >> Thanks, Greg >> >> -tk >> >> On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 5:35 PM, Greg from Oz <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> OK I had 5 minutes to spare so put the new accum.py in and now have >>> numbers. >>> >>> MariaDB [weewx]> select datetime, windgustdir from archive where >>> dateTime > 1525563900; >>> +------------+-------------+ >>> | datetime | windgustdir | >>> +------------+-------------+ >>> | 1525564200 | NULL | >>> | 1525564500 | NULL | >>> | 1525564800 | NULL | >>> | 1525565100 | NULL | >>> | 1525565400 | NULL | >>> | 1525565700 | NULL | >>> | 1525566000 | NULL | >>> | 1525566429 | NULL | >>> | 1525566600 | 180 | >>> >>> So I guess I have to wait for a day yo see if anything shows up in the >>> week stats? >>> >>> >>> On Sunday, 6 May 2018 00:27:47 UTC+10, Thomas Keffer wrote: >>>> >>>> It would not surprise me if there is no value for max_dir in the daily >>>> wind table if the max wind gust was seen earlier in the day from when you >>>> installed the new accum.py. >>>> >>>> More telling would be the value after running for a day or two. >>>> >>>> How about you, Greg from Oz? >>>> >>>> -tk >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 6:06 AM, Andrew Milner <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Well I tried anyway!! >>>>> >>>>> I now have values for windgustdir in the archive table! >>>>> I now have a value for today in the daily windgustdir table which >>>>> looks ok - but I suspect that this is a bogus value! >>>>> >>>>> surely windgust max and windgustdir max times should be the same?? >>>>> >>>>> I suspect windgustdir values will be min 0, max 359 for most days >>>>> (like winddir currently is) >>>>> I suspect windgust table needs additional max_dir coluimn to be >>>>> populated at time of max gust - which I assume to be purpose of max_dir >>>>> in >>>>> wind table except that I do NOT have value for max_dir in the daily wind >>>>> table - but I do not know what this column represents anyway!! >>>>> >>>>> So it seems an improvement to me. I don't try and use the tags >>>>> though, so cannot comment on those!! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Saturday, 5 May 2018 15:38:45 UTC+3, Andrew Milner wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Tom - before I try the new accum I need to check that I have not >>>>>> misled you!! I only checked the contents of the db tables - windgustdir >>>>>> in >>>>>> archive, daily windgustdir table and maxwinddir in daily wind table. >>>>>> Was >>>>>> my answer misleading or as expected? >>>>>> >>>>>> Andrew >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Saturday, 5 May 2018 14:35:04 UTC+3, Thomas Keffer wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Because Andrew reported that the new accum does not make any >>>>>>> difference, it appears that FO stations do indeed define wind gust that >>>>>>> way: it's the max wind seen during a loop period, which can be greater >>>>>>> than >>>>>>> the wind speed for that period. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I don't know if setting windGustDir to windDir is inventing data, >>>>>>> but we are making an assumption: that the gust is in the same direction >>>>>>> as >>>>>>> the average wind. But, this is the same assumption we are making >>>>>>> for *every* station that uses software record generation and/or >>>>>>> does not emit windGust. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Try this version of accum.py. It explicitly substitutes windDir >>>>>>> when windGustDir is unavailable. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -tk >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 8:51 PM, gjr80 <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Just playing a little devils advocate here; but are we bordering on >>>>>>>> inventing data? The FO stations provide windSpeed, windDir and >>>>>>>> windGust per >>>>>>>> loop packet. It would appear that windSpeed is some sort of average >>>>>>>> over >>>>>>>> the period and windGust is presumably the max wind speed seen over the >>>>>>>> loop >>>>>>>> period. It appears now that we are setting windGustDir to windDir, but >>>>>>>> is >>>>>>>> that necessarily correct, we are not stretching it a little are we? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I also don't see any inconsistency between the Standard skin pages >>>>>>>> in terms on wind/speed/dir. You need to compare apples with apples not >>>>>>>> apples with oranges. index.html shows the current conditions >>>>>>>> (windSpeed/windDir based) in the top left pane and day max values >>>>>>>> (wind.max/wind.maxdir based) in the lower left pane. week.html shows >>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>> week max values (wind.max/wind.maxdir based) in the top left pane and >>>>>>>> month >>>>>>>> max values (wind.max/wind.maxdir based) in the lower left pane. The FO >>>>>>>> problem is with windGustDir/wind.maxdir so anywhere wind.maxdir is >>>>>>>> used >>>>>>>> will show N/A. So given that limitation the Standard skin pages are >>>>>>>> completely consistent. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> 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. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>> 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. >>> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. 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