Thank you Gary, That seems to have done the trick.

 

Thanks

Dave

 

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
gjr80
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2022 7:37 PM
To: weewx-user <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [weewx-user] Re: Lightning Strike issues

 

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] 
<mailto:[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

 

Also how do I get a graft to see the distance? I am running the default seasons 
4.8.0 skin

 

Thanks

Dave

 

From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>  
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of 
vince
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2022 12:53 PM
To: weewx-user <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >
Subject: [weewx-user] Re: Lightning Strike issues

 

"Is not correct" isn't much to go on. What are you expecting to see ?

 

See https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/faq-how-to-report-a-problem

 

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
 if that helps any.

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