Hi Gary, Thanks for the quick response. This is my second week with Weewx so I assumed it was something I overlooked. And I'm glad a solution is relatively close. I am using a Ambient Weather WS-2902 array with an Ecowitt GW1000 and using the interceptor 0.53. cwxn is 0.4
On Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 7:42:31 AM UTC-6, gjr80 wrote: > > Hi, > > Looking at the cwxn service code there are three rain related values > included in the output, these are (named in the code) hourRain, rain24 > and dayRain. Presumably these are total rainfalls in the last hour, the > last 24 hours and since midnight respectively. The cwxn service calculates > hourRain by querying the database so hourRain should always be correct. > However, rain24 and dayRain are not calculated by querying the database, > rather they are pulled directly from fields of the same name in either the > loop packets or archive records (depending on whether you bind to loop or > archive) emitted by your station. Unfortunately, not all stations emit > these fields and I am guessing that is the case with your station. You > didn't mention what (weather) station you are using? > > As for the data on your web page, if that is the Standard or Seasons skin > that is shipped with WeeWX then in all likelihood you will find that the > WeeWX tag system is being used and something like $day.rain.sum is being > used to calculate and display the days rainfall by querying the database. > Unfortunately the WeeWX tag system is only available in WeeWX reports and > is not available in services such as cwxn. > > Don't worry, all is not lost, if it is a case of your station not emitting > rain24 and dayRain it will be a fairly straightforward job to modify the > cwxn service to calculate these fields from the database just as is done > with hourRain. I know the cwxn author is a bit busy with the WeeWX 4.0 > release at the moment but let me see if I have some time tomorrow to make > the necessary changes (or perhaps some other enthusiastic WeeWX user will > come along and do the same before then) :) > > Gary > > > On Tuesday, 25 February 2020 10:33:29 UTC+10, Bill Arthur wrote: >> >> I recently added the cwxn extension so that I could pass the weather to >> my APRS/CWOP app >> >> Its working fairly well, but it only reports the current rain rate. The >> 1hr and 12hr (p and P) are always 000 >> We had 1.03" today so I had plenty of opportunities to test. The weewx >> html page shows the rain. >> >> Here's my example: >> Feb 24 2020 18:20 >> 129/002g004t052r000p000P000h096b10067 >> >> I put "binding = archive" in weewx.conf >> >> I'm missing something here, any ideas? >> >> -- 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 on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/dc3ec9f1-9bf7-4434-9813-8dbb87ebf813%40googlegroups.com.
