The reason you are seeing such large lightning strike numbers reported by
WeeWX is that your station reports a cumulative lightning strike count, but
WeeWX requires a per-period count. As posted earlier, the solution is to
tell the SDR driver the lightning_strike_count field is a delta that is
derived from the cumulative strike count. This is done via the highlighted
lines below that were included in the earlier post:
[SDR]
[[sensors_map]]
strike_total = strike_count.494.AcuriteAtlasPacket
lightning_distance = strike_distance.494.AcuriteAtlasPacket
[[deltas]]
lightning_strike_count = strike_total
Have you included similar lines? Did you restart WeeWX after making the
changes? Also note that unless you deleted the old cumulative data from
WeeWX it will likely take an hour for the effects of any old cumulative
data to disappear from last hour total.
Gary
On Saturday, 17 September 2022 at 08:10:54 UTC+10 [email protected]
wrote:
> My acurite sensor is reporting correct lightning data. In the loop data I
> see 'lightning_distance': 7, 'lightning_strike_count': 296, but on the web
> page it is saying that strikes are 9768 and the hourly total of approx.
> 280000+. How do I get it to where it shows that current data instead of
> erroneous values?
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> I would except to see strikes by at 7
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> Also how do I get a graft to see the distance? I am running the default
> seasons 4.8.0 skin
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> Thanks
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> Dave
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> *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> *On Behalf
> Of *vince
> *Sent:* Friday, September 16, 2022 12:53 PM
> *To:* weewx-user <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* [weewx-user] Re: Lightning Strike issues
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> "Is not correct" isn't much to go on. What are you expecting to see ?
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> See https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/faq-how-to-report-a-problem
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> I don't know about your station in particular, but WeatherFlow stations
> frequently can show thousands of bogus lightning strikes due to the
> inexpensive sensor that vendor uses. Fix there is to rotate the sensor 90
> degrees which amazingly does work in quieting down erroneous strike
> readings. Acurite has a web page on your station at
> https://support.acurite.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045278273-AcuRite-Atlas-7-in-1-Inaccurate-Lightning
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> if that helps any.
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