Thanks a lot, Gary. 👍 Am Sa., 17. Sept. 2022 um 11:08 Uhr schrieb gjr80 <[email protected]>:
> The problem you are experiencing is that the Ecowitt Gateway driver > (formerly the GW1000 driver) emits the WS90 haptic rainfall data in fields > with a p_ prefix (eg p_rain instead of the default WeeWX field rain). The > reason for this is so as to not break support for existing tipping rain > gauges such as the WH40. > > You have two courses of action. If you have no plans to add a tipping rain > gauge, such as the WH40, you can simply map the required internal Ecowitt > Gateway driver haptic rainfall fields to the traditional WeeWX rain fields. > Alternatively, if you may add a tipping rain gauge in the future you may > wish to modify the WeeWX database to store the haptic rainfall data. You > would then need to modify the Seasons skin to display the haptic rainfall > data. > > Mapping the haptic rain fields to the traditional WeeWX rainfall fields > can be achieved with an alteration to the Ecowitt Gateway driver field map. > To do this: > 1. edit weewx.conf and locate the [GW1000] stanza > 2. at the end of the [GW1000] stanza contents (and before the next [] > stanza starts) add the following: > [[field_map_extensions]] > rain = p_rain > rainRate = p_rainrate > 3. save weewx.conf > > Restart WeeWX and the WeeWX rain and rainRate fields should now be > populated with haptic rainfall data (when it rains of course). The Seasons > skin should now display rain data/plots without alteration. > > If you wish to use the second approach you need to: > 1. stop WeeWX if it is running > 2. use the wee_database utility > <http://weewx.com/docs/utilities.htm#wee_database_utility> with the > --add-column action to add the columns (fields) p_rain and p_rainRate to > the database > 3. edit the Seasons skin config file skin.conf (it should be located in > /home/weewx/skins/Seasons or /etc/weewx/skins/Seasons depending on your > WeeWX install type) and locate the [DisplayOptions] stanza > 4. add p_rain and p_rainRate to the observations_current settings, it > should now look something like: > observations_current = outTemp, heatindex, windchill, dewpoint, > outHumidity, barometer, windSpeed, rain, rainRate, p_rain, p_rainRate, > UV, radiation, lightning_strike_count, inTemp, inHumidity, extraTemp1, > extraHumid1, extraTemp2, extraHumid2, pm1_0, pm2_5, pm10_0 > note that obs will be displayed (if they exist) in the order they > appear in the list > 5. repeat step 4 for the observations_stats, obs_type_sum and obs_type_max > (p_rainRate only) settings > 6. locate the [ImageGenerator] [[dayimages]] [[[dayrain]]] stanza and > replace [[[[rain]]]] with [[[[p_rain]]]], eg: > > [[[dayrain]]] > # Make sure the y-axis increment is at least 0.02 for the rain > plot > yscale = None, None, 0.02 > plot_type = bar > [[[[p_rain]]]] > aggregate_type = sum > aggregate_interval = hour > label = Rain (hourly total) > 7. repeat step 6 for [weekimages], [monthimages] and [yearimages] > 8. save skin.conf > > Restart WeeWX and you should find the p_rain and p_rainRate fields now > exist in the database and are populated (when it rains) and the Seasons > skin should display the haptic rain data. Note the Seasons skin will also > display the tradition rain data without modification if you ever add a > tipping rain gauge, but there will need to be some modification to the > image plot definitions to include both rain and p_rain data in order for > both rain and p_rain to be plotted. > > Gary > > On Saturday, 17 September 2022 at 16:12:17 UTC+10 [email protected] > wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I installed my WS90 some days ago and was surprised how easy this was >> going. The captured temperatures seem reasonable. >> >> Now we had some rain, but the rain is not showing up in Weewx. I am using >> the WDC skin. >> I have now checked the MysSQL database. The columns with rain/rain rate >> are Null or 0. >> >> But the WS90 is for sure working. I am sending data to the Ecowitt.net >> cloud, and this one shows me the rain data. >> >> What would be the next thing that I should check? >> The skin is probably not the culprit when the DB is empty. Is this now >> the driver? -- Does this require any special configuration? >> >> Thanks a lot and best regards, >> Marcus >> >> > -- > 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/38QcK6E2wh0/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/acfccb73-9928-462f-be67-82885df31888n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/acfccb73-9928-462f-be67-82885df31888n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Marcus Zurhorst Zum Baerler Busch 6 47199 Duisburg +49 (2841) 94 91 95 9 +49 (176) 70 52 92 75 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. 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