Awesome, thanks Gary I'll head off in that direction. Really appreciate the pointer.
Cheers Colin On Tue, 8 Jan 2019, 19:04 gjr80 <[email protected] wrote: > Just thinking aloud, if the issue is you have some suspicions about > monthRain and the hardware developer is washing his hands of anything > involving weeWX then take weeWX out of the equation. Just use a terminal to > interrogate the emulator for loop packets and manually work out the > monthRain value (2 bytes at offset 52). If it come up as 0 (clicks/tips) > then either wait for or simulate a rain event and obtain another loop > packet. If monthRain still comes out 0 then the emulator is misbehaving > and you have empirical evidence to take back to the developer with no > comeback at weeWX. If it comes out with the correct value then I would say > your counter reset or something else may have something to do with it. > Given the maturity of the vantage driver I think it is unlikely to be the > problem. > > Looking at the modified engine.py you are running I don't believe it is a > factor, it merely prevents a catchup if using software record generation. > > Gary > > On Tuesday, 8 January 2019 15:33:00 UTC+10, Colin Larsen wrote: >> >> The developer of the hardware appears to be washing his hands of this >> combination of hardware and Weewx. I am certain however that it can work >> well - if I can just sort this rain problem out. >> >> Can anyone help with further debugging of the rain and why it doesn't >> seem to record properly? >> >> Many thanks >> Colin >> >> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 2:00 PM Colin Larsen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I assume that you mean you're not familiar with the hardware end of >>> things. No problem at all, I think you've hopefully given me enough to go >>> back to the weather station developer with. >>>> >>>> >>> Many thanks >>> Colin >>> >>> -- >>> 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.
