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
>>>
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