Thanks for that Andrew, that was super helpful and now the problem appears to be solved.
I would still love a solution for checking the signal between the sensor and the SDR dongle if anyone has any ideas? Thanks On Sun, 29 Dec 2019, 13:20 Andrew Milner, <[email protected]> wrote: > try this youtube > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVsqGX0iBOM > > it should help you > > > > On Sunday, 29 December 2019 09:20:53 UTC+2, Sean Jahnig wrote: >> >> Thanks for the reply. >> >> It is 300. You are right, if i wait 10min it has started reporting so it >> is working. >> >> I am having intermittent issues though and i think it is because i am >> using the wrong antenna on the dongle. If i move the station more than 5m >> away from the dongle, it loses the signal. And there's no way of knowing i >> am losing signal because the 'Signal Quality' field in >> http://192.168.1.150/weewx/ just says N/A. Is there no way to parse the >> signal quality from rtl_144 to weewx ? I was hoping this would do it, but >> it doesn't *rxCheckPercent = status.013E.Acurite5n1Packet* >> >> Also, can anyone tell me what length of antenna i should be using on the >> SDR dongle? The sensor is transmitting at 433Mhz. At the moment the antenna >> i have is about 12cm long (the type that you find on a wifi access point) >> and it loses signal with the sensor when i go 5m+ away. >> >> thanks >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/weewx-user/eVspWV-fNI0/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/1f1f9563-be6b-40c4-9a5a-c10a83f902dc%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/1f1f9563-be6b-40c4-9a5a-c10a83f902dc%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CALeSoZnvVbDWs3Jg41L8iZ%3D0Tyw4Rq1E3Hp1y3z91UwH1Gu4Mw%40mail.gmail.com.
