Thanks for this info. I'm able to go back to having Rapid-Fire work with my Acu-Rite Atlas without the Pressure reading constantly disappearing.
On Thursday, December 8, 2022 at 7:11:08 PM UTC-8 Brent Musat wrote: > So I tried three different drivers for WeatherLink Live that interfaces > with my Davis Vantage Vue Wireless ISS: > > - WeatherLinkLiveUDP - > https://github.com/grebleem/weewx-weatherlinkliveudp > - WeatherLink Live - > https://github.com/michael-slx/weewx-weatherlink-live > - WLLDriver - https://github.com/Drealine/weatherlinklive-driver-weewx > > All three of them have pros and cons and slightly different configuration, > but they all seem to work fine with the WLL and my weather station. All > three of them will send RapidFire packets to Weather Underground and I can > see it updating every 2-8 seconds, but the barometric pressure *still > drops out *with all three of those drivers. The pressure will only show > up every 20-30 seconds or so.. And I noticed that it seems to be that the > LOOP packets cause problems because the barometric pressure is not part of > the LOOP packets that come from the Davis WLL every 2.5 seconds. > > I don't understand enough about how the data is aggregated in weewx to > understand how the LOOP packets are suppose to be read, aggregated, and > sent to WU, but that seems to be the problem why the pressure only shows up > for a couple seconds every 20-30 seconds... because only those fully > populated packets with barometric pressure are displayed properly on WU. > > I did find a quick work around, although it limits the speed of the > RapidFire packets displayed on WU. I noticed that roughly only 1 in 5 of > the LOOP packets has barometric pressure readings, so by adding the > following works: > > [StdRESTful] > > [[Wunderground]] > > * [[[Essentials]]]* > > * barometer = True* > The "Essentials... barometer = True"in the Wunderground section ensures > that RapidFire packets sent to WU have the barometric pressure. Granted > this limits the RapidFire speed to roughly every 10-12 seconds in lieu of > 2.5 seconds, but I find it acceptable to not have the pressure dropping in > and out on my WU station page... > > And I stuck to using the WeatherLink Live driver because it seems to have > the best documentation and options. > > ymmv, > brent... > On Sunday, December 4, 2022 at 8:54:09 PM UTC-6 Brent Musat wrote: > >> Thanks Rory, >> >> With the 5 or so different versions of WLL drivers it's difficult to know >> which one to use.. I will try the one you mentioned. >> >> brent... >> On Sunday, December 4, 2022 at 8:35:50 AM UTC-6 [email protected] >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Brent, >>> >>> Yes I did, I changed the driver to this one: >>> https://github.com/Drealine/weatherlinklive-driver-weewx >>> >>> It sorts out the disappearing pressure readings and has more >>> configuration options than WeatherLinkLive UDP. >>> >>> Hope this helps, >>> >>> Rory >>> >>> On Sunday, December 4, 2022 at 7:31:24 AM UTC [email protected] wrote: >>> >>>> Did you ever find a solution to this? I also have the Rapidfire >>>> enabled and have a 10s interval but the pressure only appears on WU every >>>> 30 or seconds for a brief period of time too. >>>> https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KTXAUSTI2863 >>>> >>>> thanks >>>> On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 7:14:06 AM UTC-6 >>>> [email protected] wrote: >>>> >>>>> I meant to say, WeatherLinkLiveUDP is set to 10s interval, it makes no >>>>> difference at 30s, so I assume the UDP packets from WLL only send the >>>>> pressure every 30 seconds or so. >>>>> >>>>> On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 12:42:05 PM UTC Rory Gillies wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> I am using the WeatherLinkLiveUDP driver with Weewx to access my >>>>>> David Vantage Pro2 Plus station. Everything works a treat (you can see >>>>>> my >>>>>> weather page here using the excellent Neowx-Material skin: >>>>>> https://www.360shetland.co.uk/weather/index.html >>>>>> >>>>>> I upload to PWS Weather, Windy, and Weather Underground using the >>>>>> rapidfire mode. I had an issue with wind speed being higher than wind >>>>>> gust >>>>>> speed which I have fixed, however the pressure value only seems to be >>>>>> updated every 30 seconds rather than with each loop. My WU Rapid station >>>>>> is >>>>>> here: https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/ISHETL39/ >>>>>> >>>>>> Is there any way to append the pressure value to the loop data that >>>>>> is uploaded? Although the pressure is recorded and can be seen in the >>>>>> station current condition, the pressure dial disappears for 30 seconds >>>>>> then >>>>>> appears briefly until the next loop packet is uploaded. It's not the end >>>>>> of >>>>>> the world, but I would like the pressure dial to be there all the time. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> >>>>>> Rory >>>>>> >>>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/036924bd-fac5-4913-843c-3ef8aab499c1n%40googlegroups.com.
