How did you tell it to display the delta value? Did you stop/restart weewx after editing weewx.conf to put in the delta?
On Sunday, 29 March 2020 07:44:01 UTC+3, Kenny Stier wrote: > > The sensor appears to be sending sane data. > https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/PX9mfmkjBg/ > https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/8hTzx3ypNH/ > > For some reason the site says Lightning Strikes 62 even though I told it > to display the delta value lightning_strikes and not lightning_strikes_total > > On Tuesday, March 3, 2020 at 6:35:17 PM UTC-5, mwall wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sunday, March 1, 2020 at 7:17:01 PM UTC-5, Kenny Stier wrote: >>> >>> I am working on including my lightning detector data on my homepage but >>> am having some issues. >>> I am using an Acurite 06045M over SDR on Belchertown. >>> https://wx.millhousen.com/ >>> >>> 1. For some reason, the Lightning Distance is shown on the graph as >>> being 24 consistently, but it hasn't stormed in many months. >>> >> >> as greg suggested, please check the raw output from rtl_433 to where the >> 24 is coming from. >> >> >> >>> 2. Also, the number of strikes has many trailing zeros and is changed by >>> MQTT to say 120. The database shows the 0.00000 number. >>> >> >> its been awhile, but i'm pretty sure the 06045M reports a cumulative >> value for strikes. i'm not sure when it wraps/resets. >> >> the weewx-sdr driver will do delta calculations to convert a cumulative >> value (count since last reset/wraparound) to a delta value (count since >> last packet). the build-in definition looks like this: >> >> [[deltas]] >> rain: rain_total >> strikes: strikes_total >> >> so if you have this mapping: >> >> [SDR] >> ... >> [[sensor_map]] >> ... >> strikes_total = strikes_total.00E7.AcuriteLightningPacket >> >> then the observation 'strikes' will have the delta value and >> 'strikes_total' will have the cumulative value. >> >> or you can do this: >> >> [SDR] >> ... >> [[deltas]] >> lightning_strikes = lightning_strikes_total >> >> if you prefer to use the name 'lightning_strikes' instead of 'strikes' >> >> of course, all of that assumes the sensor is sending sane data, and that >> rtl_433 is not doing any other manipulations. >> >> m >> >> >> -- 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/15c64885-665c-4ddb-9230-7b07bf9fb66d%40googlegroups.com.
