So, I need a sophisticated solution to combine both data into one report for my upload to windy and for a proper report in my allTime Seasons skin, which is a simpler derivate from the Fuzzy-Archer skin.
I hope, this post will be published, as currently all my posts are blocked in this forum. So, if this post will partly double up, sorry. 'Ian Millard' via weewx-user <weewx-user@googlegroups.com> schrieb am Mi., 9. Juli 2025, 23:17: > @michael > > Those are exactly my findings. I also have a piezo rain sensor and tipping > rain sensor with the funnel upgrade and I feel they complement each other > perfectly. Yes they work out much the same in the end but the piezo is much > better at sensing the very fine rain which frequently occurs in this part > of the world which the tipping sensor never registers. > > On 8 Jul 2025, at 18:53, 'michael.k...@gmx.at' via weewx-user < > weewx-user@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > To compare: https://kainzbauer.net/weather/Rif/en/stats.html > The linked page lists rain and piezo rain per day/month/year > My WS90 is vanilla, I did not tune any settings. While a bucket is > agnostic to the type of rain, the piezo sensor isn't. Large drops vs. mist > make a difference. After a longer period of time the sums of the different > sensors aren't that much away from each other. I don't give much about the > sum the piezo sensor is reporting, but it delivers information when there > is only a little rain or very light rain, which sometimes the bucket > doesn't recognize at all. > > vince schrieb am Dienstag, 8. Juli 2025 um 17:41:45 UTC+2: > >> The downside of the ecowitt piezo rain sensor is that the ‘user’ has to >> figure out how to tune its settings, it does not read correctly as >> delivered out of the box. The instructions are in minimal badly translated >> english as well which doesn’t help. I gave up after a few attempts at >> finding tunings that were accurate., >> >> Their manual even says to buy their standalone gauge…see section 9 of the >> WS90 manual. >> https://oss.ecowitt.net/uploads/20250314/WS90-0314.pdf#page20 >> >> Their specs say rain is +/- 20% accuracy. Wow. Their standalone WH40H >> colllector claims 10%.but at least it is more inexpensive. >> >> Just as a point of reference, the Davis VP2 claims 3% accuracy which is >> true based on the light rain we get here near Seattle during the wet >> season. I compare mine frequently with a calibrated CoCoRAHS manual gauge. >> >> > -- > 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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/507402e1-6c70-498d-9fef-aad3644d1f47n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/507402e1-6c70-498d-9fef-aad3644d1f47n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/weewx-user/rwdy_SwGW8o/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/3FCDEAAF-47A7-426D-89D7-75967F1C0F6C%40btinternet.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/3FCDEAAF-47A7-426D-89D7-75967F1C0F6C%40btinternet.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAO%3D2E3%3DE9jEaVF%3DEdsw%2B8zDwO1qjCCucj-oLgFqE7w53sKbLdA%40mail.gmail.com.
