Regarding the Rainwise rain gauge and OWFS. Yes and No.
It is NOT hooked up directly to the Pi, certainly not for the OWFs driver. I see there are various HowTos about interfacing a reed switch rain gauge to a Pi using that method but until you find one that's proven and tested (bug free), or are willing to do the possible hard yards yourself then... ?? With OWFS the raingauge requires a 1-wire counter module to replace the digital counter - LCD - supplied with it. The 1-wire counter detects the pulse from a magnet / reed-switch combination on the bucket arm of the raingauge If you are up to modifying the internals ( it might even be done already? I forget) and able to source and configure a 1-wire counter (maybe 4-5 on a 1-10 complexity scale, depending on your 1-wire knowledge) then you can use the OWFS driver to get the data. I use a hobby-boards (that distributor is now defunct) counter. I'm familiar with that gear and it works well; providing you keep moisture out of the electronics of course! There appears to be an alternative available at Sheepwalk Electronics, the "SWE6 Multifunction I/O Module" which mentions a counter. I have no idea of its capabilities so you would need to discuss it with them. You'd also need one of their host adapters if you don't have something suitable already. https://www.sheepwalkelectronics.co.uk/ On 20/10/2021, Seth Ratner <lordrat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, my searching thus far has been fruitless. > > I'd like to hook a Rainwise RAINEW 111 wired rain gauge up to WeeWx running > > on a Raspberry Pi Zero W. Does anyone have any experience with this? > > https://rainwise.com/wired-rain-gauge > > I know I can just write my own program in Python to monitor, count, and log > > the bucket tips, but I suspect there's a better way to do it using WeeWx, > since the exact rain gauge is shown in the supported hardware list at the > end under one-wire. > > I think the OWFS might be the right direction, but I have no idea how it > applies. Is the bucket simply hooked up to a GPIO pin and GND? How do I get > > WeeWx to monitor the pin and log the bucket tips as rainfall? > > Thanks! > Seth > > -- > 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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/b2b32e20-e407-43ea-8e0f-037e54d918d6n%40googlegroups.com. > -- Cheers Glenn rorpi - read only raspberry pi & various weewx addons https://github.com/glennmckechnie -- 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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAAraAzg0WRCJ9FVT9GkvDV_xhzq_GkaZyAnhZUOUUo0HT8tEPg%40mail.gmail.com.
