Hi Many thanks for all your responses and suggestions. As a result I believe I can report success, my station now appears reliably in the WU maps.
I checked out the time on both my Pi and the Vantage console against my PC time and all were within seconds of each other. So I tried I editing the rapidfire setting in the config file as suggested and changed it from false to true. For the first time in ages my station (ILAIRG10) appeared on WU maps and continues to appear - great! I've waited some hours to confirm this is not just a fluke, and so far the station appears every time I have I've checked. This hasn't been possible in months. I have wasted a lot of time fretting over this problem and it's great to have a solution. I can see from the weewx log that weewx now sends data to WU every 2 seconds now instead of every 5 minutes previously and that the WU data table still updates every 5 minutes. Curiously the time stamp on my WU data table changed as soon as the rapid fire option was made, from e.g. 2:00PM, 2:05 PM, 2:10 PM etc to e.g 2:34 PM, 2:39 PM, 2:44 PM etc. These post rapidfire change time stamps now precisely align with the other two local stations (that I believe not running on Weewx), but what the significance is escapes me. The comment made regarding WU dropping sites from the map if they aren't uploading reliably looks to have been true for me, but why, to my likely simplistic understanding, firing data at WU 150 times in 5 minutes, instead of a nice sedate once, improves reliability surprises me. I'm not really clear what the logic behind this is but it works for me. Perhaps someone can suggest an explanation? Anyway, I'm happy now and thanks once again to you all for your input. Alastair On Sat, 6 Aug 2022 at 01:26, Doug Bo <[email protected]> wrote: > Good point about the system clock. Mine is spot on which leads me to > believe when weather is extreme the QC algorithm does not like my data. My > data matches my neighbors so I'm not sure what WU dislikes about my data. > Be nice if WU would tell me what they don't like about my data. > > One observation that I've made is this: my neighbor had his wind direction > 180 degrees off for weeks after a fresh install and WU continued to accept > his data as valid & give preference to his station on the map. I just had > to laugh. > > Doug B. > > > On Friday, August 5, 2022 at 12:25:35 PM UTC-7 vince wrote: > >> Some quick research yesterday popped up some threads elsewhere saying >> their QC algorithms sometimes drop sites from the map if they aren't >> uploading reliably, which might be the original poster's underlying issue >> (perhaps). >> >> It could also be something as minor as clock skew. I'd suggest the >> original poster check their system clock for drift. Run ntp if you're not >> already doing so. The systemd timesync stuff is not as good in my >> experience. >> > -- > 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/fe112aca-48c4-4eac-89a2-19087a893383n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/fe112aca-48c4-4eac-89a2-19087a893383n%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/CAKvi5dStiq2yv7wBSt9t5r4451jZ_MeejWB5Smj5raEXE-KJww%40mail.gmail.com.
