That sounds about right.

Note: values can be None, so the most robust expression would be

rain = rain * 1.15 if rain is not None else None
etc.

BTW, why 0.23mm? That's an odd number. A normal Davis bucket represents
0.01 inch, or 0.254 mm.

-tk

On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 1:03 PM Colin Larsen <[email protected]> wrote:

> I agree Andrew, I guess we could call this a work in progress by the
> developer :)
>
> One other question on rain - my bucket tip has calculated out to 0.230 mm
> per tip. To allow for that I have added the following into weewx.conf. Are
> they all required? Is the correction factor for the rain rate correct or
> required at all? I noticed with a single tip the rainfall recorded correct
> at 0.23mm but the rainRate was 0.2mm per hour, so added the conversion below
>
>         rain = rain * 1.15
>
>         dayRain = dayRain * 1.15
>
>         monthRain = monthRain * 1.15
>
>         yearRain = yearRain * 1.15
>
>         rainRate = rainRate * 1.15
>
> On Wednesday, 9 January 2019 02:37:59 UTC+13, Andrew Milner wrote:
>>
>> if it is a true emulator then I would have thought he should be providing
>> all the fields specified by Davis for LOOP packets in their comms protocol
>>
>> https://www.davisinstruments.com/support/weather/download/VantageSerialProtocolDocs_v261.pdf
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, 8 January 2019 12:01:53 UTC+2, Colin Larsen wrote:
>>>
>>> Yep :)
>>>
>>> On Tue, 8 Jan 2019, 22:32 gjr80 <[email protected] wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:01:13 UTC+10, Colin Larsen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi m
>>>>>
>>>>> Wow, thanks for all that information! The developer in the end did
>>>>> give me the fix to add monthRain into the Loop data (he took a little
>>>>> convincing) and I think it all looks good now. I need to do some db 
>>>>> cleanup
>>>>> to get rid of some untidy data, but that will be easy enough.
>>>>>
>>>>> The station is Arduino based and most users use Cumulus/CumulusMx
>>>>> which is apparently quite happy without that Loop record.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hmm, OK, so it was half an emulator then :)
>>>>
>>>> Gary
>>>>
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