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
>>>>
>>>

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