On Tue, 18 Nov 2025 at 18:21, 'Cameron D' via weewx-user < [email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, > right from the start I used a custom schema, derived from wview, with > floats rather than doubles. I figured that was more useful as I run a 1 > minute interval. > How big is your DB? MQTT sending loop packet info not an option? > I also trimmed out most of the unused columns. This did cause extra > problems when version 5 came along as the default skin started > recalculating some of the derived quantities and chewing up lots of cpu > cycles. > I only removed columns that only had NULLs, which I figured can't have been useful or used at all... > So I am happy with the result and have to remember not to complain when I > get to reassemble the broken bits. > That's what stopped me previously, but I wanted to add forecast columns the Vantage console already sends, but wasn't being saved, after adding them the data just started flowing immediately... > And I know nothing about hail - except that the recent storm with 5cm > hail took chunks out of the top of my rain collector and off the bottom of > the Stephenson box. And one cup of the anemometer is missing (but I don't > know it that was hail or cockatoos) > Sorry to hear about your loss... A previous station from the early 2000s lost an anemometer arm, that I can only put down to UV, there wasn't any hail at the time.. Maybe a fat pigeon sat on it and broke it off... I still haven't taken the broken wind sensor down and it still has the other 2 arms almost a decade later... So who knows what the actual cause was... I have since been sent a link to a listing that claims to be an all in one sensor that can record hail, but it also says suitable for the highway what ever that means... and +/- 10% accurate... https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/RS485-RS232-SDI12-ABS-MODBUS-RADAR_1601167771067.html ? -- 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/CAGTinV5Knz1wLEOQX%3D-E7BkEV8XmCf0aJD%2Byzg4wjjuzzcBzDA%40mail.gmail.com.
