I would guess it will be WU ignoring archive data if rapid fire is enabled 
- after all, as Tom said, they do say use one or the other and not both!!


On Thursday, 14 December 2017 07:03:58 UTC+2, Francisco Puig wrote:

> Hi Tom, 
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, I tried it but apparently when rapid-fire 
> option is selected the archive_post doesn't work or maybe WU don't take 
> into consideration the non rapid-fire data if rapid-fire report is enabled.
>
>
> On Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at 5:50:15 PM UTC-5, Tom Keffer wrote:
>>
>> ​As is often the case, this is caused by bugs in the WU servers, so there 
>> is not much we can do about it.
>>
>> But, one thing you could try is to post BOTH Rapidfire, and the regular 
>> archive records. This is done by setting *both* option rapidfire and 
>> archive_post to true:
>>
>> [StdRestful]
>>     [[Wunderground]]
>>         enable = true
>>         station = YYYY
>>         password = XXX
>>         rapidfire = true
>>         archive_post = true
>>
>> See the User's Guide section on the WU 
>> <http://weewx.com/docs/usersguide.htm#[[Wunderground]]>.
>>
>> The Weather Underground recommends against doing this, but it's worth a 
>> try.
>>
>> -tk​
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 9:19 PM, Francisco Puig <fpu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, finally I had time and disabled "rapidfire" and the wind gust 
>>> started reporting fine on WU. So the question is, is there a way that I can 
>>> get the gusts reporting with rapifire ON or, could be possible to decrease 
>>> the reporting interval of the script with the rapidfire in OFF?
>>>
>>> Thanks for the help...
>>>
>>> On Sunday, November 26, 2017 at 1:14:25 AM UTC-5, gjr80 wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It may well have worked before but it is not now. Other services such 
>>>> as CWOP, WOW etc are updated every archive period using data from the 
>>>> archive record covering that archive period. Many stations report 
>>>> windSpeed 
>>>> in loop packets but windGust is not calculated/reported (by weeWX or the 
>>>> station) until the end of the archive period when windGust is calculated 
>>>> as 
>>>> the highest loop packet windSpeed value seen during the archive period. 
>>>> Rapidfire uses loop packets, so if there is no windGust field included in 
>>>> the loop packet then no windGust data will be posted. Because windGust is 
>>>> included in the archive record posting to CWOP etc includes the windGust 
>>>> data.
>>>>
>>>> You can see what is in each loop packet along with what is being posted 
>>>> to WU when using rapidfire by turning on rapidfire and setting debug=3. 
>>>> There will be an entry in the log just before each rapidfire post that 
>>>> lists the contents of the loop packet.
>>>>
>>>> Gary
>>>>
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