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
>>
>>
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