The sensor appears to be sending sane data. https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/PX9mfmkjBg/ https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/8hTzx3ypNH/
For some reason the site says Lightning Strikes 62 even though I told it to display the delta value lightning_strikes and not lightning_strikes_total On Tuesday, March 3, 2020 at 6:35:17 PM UTC-5, mwall wrote: > > > > On Sunday, March 1, 2020 at 7:17:01 PM UTC-5, Kenny Stier wrote: >> >> I am working on including my lightning detector data on my homepage but >> am having some issues. >> I am using an Acurite 06045M over SDR on Belchertown. >> https://wx.millhousen.com/ >> >> 1. For some reason, the Lightning Distance is shown on the graph as being >> 24 consistently, but it hasn't stormed in many months. >> > > as greg suggested, please check the raw output from rtl_433 to where the > 24 is coming from. > > > >> 2. Also, the number of strikes has many trailing zeros and is changed by >> MQTT to say 120. The database shows the 0.00000 number. >> > > its been awhile, but i'm pretty sure the 06045M reports a cumulative value > for strikes. i'm not sure when it wraps/resets. > > the weewx-sdr driver will do delta calculations to convert a cumulative > value (count since last reset/wraparound) to a delta value (count since > last packet). the build-in definition looks like this: > > [[deltas]] > rain: rain_total > strikes: strikes_total > > so if you have this mapping: > > [SDR] > ... > [[sensor_map]] > ... > strikes_total = strikes_total.00E7.AcuriteLightningPacket > > then the observation 'strikes' will have the delta value and > 'strikes_total' will have the cumulative value. > > or you can do this: > > [SDR] > ... > [[deltas]] > lightning_strikes = lightning_strikes_total > > if you prefer to use the name 'lightning_strikes' instead of 'strikes' > > of course, all of that assumes the sensor is sending sane data, and that > rtl_433 is not doing any other manipulations. > > m > > > -- 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/52b2160b-d76f-4de3-b6f9-5fda6631d32e%40googlegroups.com.
