Yeah, turns out the sensor is bad :-) Called Acurite, I gave them the QC code
and they said "We'll send you a new one"
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Clay Jackson
> On Feb 18, 2017, at 7:35 AM, mwall wrote:
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>> On Monday, February 13, 2017 at 7:14:55 PM UTC-5, Clay Jackson wrote:
>> Trying to use an Acurite Lightning Sensor in my greenhouse as extraTemp1.
>>
>>
>>
>> I changed all of .tmpl files from “Pond” to Grenhouse (did not change the
>> var names) and the graph/texts are showing up fine; BUT., the units are
>> wrong. The sensor is reporting degrees F; but somewhere BEFORE it lands in
>> the database (archive and extraTemp tables) the value (around 43 f) is
>> getting converted as if it was centigrade (what’s stored in the database is
>> around 109).
>>
>>
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>> I looked in units.py and extraTemp1 is in the temperature group, which is
>> set for degrees F.
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>> Any suggestions on where to fix this?
>>
>
> clay,
>
> did you figure this out?
>
> you are probably inserting a value for temperature in F into a loop packet or
> archive record whose unit system is METRIC or METRICWX
>
> m
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