Confirmed it this afternoon, leaks will change from 0 to 1 when triggered (or 'Leaking' as displayed din the WS View+ app). WH55 is quite tolerable when triggered and placed in sealed container.
Gary On Monday, 3 February 2025 at 11:13:16 UTC+10 [email protected] wrote: > I should add, I wasn’t keen to trigger it either. Knowing the observation > name and that it goes from 0 to non-0 is all I really need to know. I plan > to configure my weewx-pushover extension to send a notification when it is > non-0. > When I have it all configured, I will trigger as a final test. > Thanks again. rich > > On Sunday, 2 February 2025 at 06:22:30 UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > >> Gary, >> Perfect. Thank you very much! >> rich >> On Saturday, 1 February 2025 at 23:29:15 UTC-5 gjr80 wrote: >> >>> You should see a field leakx in archive records and loop packets where >>> x is the channel number to which your WH55 is assigned. The value will be 0 >>> when not triggered and (I believe) 1 when triggered. The Ecowitt telnet API >>> documentation is very, shall we say, non-specific about the WH55 >>> non-triggered/triggered values. I can confirm the value 0 indicates the >>> WH55 is not triggered and I'm not going to have the household experience a >>> triggered WH55 just now so I can test the triggered value :). That being >>> said, I've just noticed an omission in the driver that will result in >>> archive records containing an average of the loop packet 'leak values' >>> rather than the most recent loop packet value as it should. You can fix >>> that by adding the highlighted stanzas to your weewx.conf [Accumulator] >>> stanza: >>> >>> [Accumulator] >>> .... >>> [[leak1]] >>> extractor = last >>> [[leak2]] >>> extractor = last >>> [[leak3]] >>> extractor = last >>> [[leak4]] >>> extractor = last >>> >>> Of course if you have mapped any of the leakx fields to some other >>> field name you will need to change the [[ ]] contents accordingly. >>> >>> The battery value of 5 indicates a fully charged battery, the battery >>> field for the WH55 is an integer from 0 to 5 inclusive with 0 and 1 >>> indicating a 'low battery'. The signal level is a quasi-signal level in >>> that it indicates the number of the last four packets from that sensor that >>> were successfully received by the gateway. 4 is good, 0 is not good. >>> >>> Gary >>> On Sunday, 2 February 2025 at 11:24:09 UTC+10 [email protected] wrote: >>> >>>> weewx-gw1000 and ecowitt wh55 >>>> >>>> I recently got a wh55. When running weewx-gw1000 as a driver directly, >>>> I see the following: 'wh55_ch1_batt': '5', 'wh55_ch1_sig': '4' in the >>>> output. My googling has let me down... What are the expected values for >>>> 'batt' and 'sig'. Or more specfically, how do I know when it has dected a >>>> water leak versus when “it is dry”? >>>> Thanks! rich >>>> >>> -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/953790de-3a97-4467-830e-3d3f173868d8n%40googlegroups.com.
