Good point, but then you also said that rainRate had values of FFFF. Where are you seeing that?
On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 3:01 PM Jared <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tom, > > Thanks! The confusing thing for me is that the database is showing 0.0 > for the rainRate in those bad intervals. Wouldn't I expect to see 655.35 > in those archive intervals instead of 0.0? > On Monday, July 3, 2023 at 3:58:05 PM UTC-4 Tom Keffer wrote: > >> I think these are all related. If your VP2 receives a "dash value", that >> means the reading from the sensor is bad. The WeeWX Vantage driver detects >> this, and emits a value of None, which becomes a null value in the >> database. For whatever reasons, the outside temperature and humidity >> sensors are emitting dash values, so you're seeing corresponding null >> values in their database fields. >> >> However, dash values are NOT detected for rain rate, so you'll see 0xFFFF >> as the value. The documentation does not mention that a dash value is >> possible for rain rate, but obviously it is. That's a change that needs to >> be made to the driver. >> >> As for why these sensors are emitting null (aka, "dash") values, I don't >> know. Something going on with your hardware. Because it is happening to 3 >> different sensors at the same time, it makes me think it must be something >> they all have in common. Perhaps the battery, perhaps the communications >> module, perhaps something else. It's worth asking Davis. >> >> Fixed in commit dea4b30 >> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/commit/dea4b30317fac63428ae47c1b08fe31433d0d232> >> . >> >> -tk >> >> On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 4:59 AM Jared <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm running a Vantage Pro 2, and there have been four occurrences so far >>> this year where it has failed to log an outTemp and outHumidity value in >>> the database for a period of several archive intervals. >>> >>> If I run a query like this: >>> >>> select >>> dateTime,barometer,inTemp,outTemp,inHumidity,outHumidity,windSpeed,windDir,windGust,windGustDir,rain,rainRate,rxCheckPercent,txBatteryStatus,consBatteryVoltage >>> from archive where outTemp IS NULL; >>> >>> The station is logging everything normally except outTemp and >>> outHumidity. This is going to format terribly but it may help: >>> >>> dateTime barometer inTemp outTemp inHumidity outHumidity >>> windSpeed windDir windGust windGustDir rain rainRate >>> rxCheckPercent txBatteryStatus consBatteryVoltage >>> ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------- >>> ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------- ---------- ---------- >>> -------------- --------------- ------------------ >>> 1688358000 29.879 76.9 42.0 >>> 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 >>> 99.4375 0.0 4.79 >>> 1688358300 29.875 76.7 42.0 >>> 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 >>> 99.4375 0.0 4.79 >>> 1688358600 29.873 76.7 42.0 >>> 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 >>> 99.4375 0.0 4.79 >>> 1688358900 29.875 76.6 42.0 >>> 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 >>> 100.0 0.0 4.79 >>> 1688359200 29.872 76.5 42.0 >>> 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 >>> 99.4375 0.0 4.79 >>> >>> First, I wonder if there is a problem with my station's sensor. I'll >>> have to investigate that. Three occurrences of this happened over the >>> winter, and just last night was the first time it's happened in months. >>> Any tips here are appreciated, but I know that's well outside the scope of >>> the forum :) >>> >>> But for whatever reason, this also messes up the rainRate records. As >>> you can see there's no strange rain data in the archive, so I'm not sure >>> how it's causing the rainRate records to have that value (FFFF in hex). >>> All the other values and tables aside from archive are generated by Weewx, >>> right? >>> >>> Any help is appreciated. 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