Bill,
Just to confirm [StdWXCalculate] should look like this:
[StdWCalculate]
ignore_zero_wind = False
[[Calculations]]
pressure = prefer_hardware
...
>From memory putting ignore_zero_wind as the last line will put it under
[[Calculations]] which would explain it's incorrect operation.
Gary
On Wednesday, 22 July 2020 at 14:37:47 UTC+10 wa4...@gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks Gary!!
> I was able to run interceptor directly and with a wind speed of 0.0 my
> direction reads 262.0. I immediately ran weewd and with a wind speed of 0.0
> my wind direction is none.
> I have ignore_zero_wind = False as the last line in StdWxCalculate
>
> Bill
> On Tuesday, July 21, 2020 at 11:26:03 PM UTC-5 gjr80 wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Your device will be sending the same wind obs to WeeWX and the
>> Meteobridge. I can't speak for the Meteobridge but you are right in that
>> you can control the wind direction within WeeWX when windSpeed is zero
>> through use of the ignore_zero_wind config option. The ignore_zero_wind
>> config option is nothing to do with the interceptor driver per se, rather
>> once WeeWX has a packet from the interceptor driver WeeWX will check the
>> ignore_zero_wind setting and if it is True (the default) windDir will be
>> set to the python value None if windSpeed is zero. If ignore_zero_wind
>> is False then windDir will be left unchanged (whatever value was
>> reported by the station).
>>
>> That being said you have a lot of moving parts there and I think the best
>> approach is to work through from sensor to output. I would be running the
>> interceptor driver directly and looking at what happens when windSpeed
>> is zero, what is windDir? Then step forward a bit and run WeeWX directly
>> <http://weewx.com/docs/usersguide.htm#Running_directly>, what do you see
>> for windDir when windSpeed is zero? What about if you set ignore_zero_wind
>> = False (remember True is the default).
>>
>> Your error when running interceptor is due to a little WeeWX shorthand in
>> the instructions. Try using full paths (you have a package install),
>> something like:
>>
>> $ PYTHONPATH=/usr/share/weewx python
>> /usr/share/weewx/user/interceptor.py --device=fineoffset-bridge
>> --mode=listen --port=8007
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> On Wednesday, 22 July 2020 at 03:57:43 UTC+10 wa4...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> I need assistance to figure out where to look for a problem with
>>> "ignore_zero_wind". (and interceptor)
>>>
>>> I have five Raspberry Pi's at three physical locations: zero, 3B+ and 4.
>>> All are running 05/2020 OS
>>> Four are running Weewx 4.1.1, one is 3.9.2 All have the same issue.
>>> At my remote locations Weewx runs in parallel with Meteobridge, both
>>> receiving the same data through a GW1000, from WS-2902 arrays.
>>> Meteobridge never shows 0 for wind_dir. I would prefer consistancy
>>> between the two systems.
>>> My bad windir data comes out in three ways:
>>> "0" from my output extensions, cwxn and weewx2aprx
>>> "NaN" from W34 charts
>>> "None" from a custom Seasons report file
>>> Three different output methods allowed me to conclude it wasn't the
>>> output. I added "ignore_zero_wind" with no effect. Nothing unusual in the
>>> logs.
>>> I studied previous posts with the same issue and saw suggestions to run
>>> weewxd. When I did, in the loop packets I saw "none" as wind_dir when wind
>>> speed was 0
>>> My suspicion is that if the loop packet has "none" it isn't weewx, more
>>> likely the interceptor. Is that correct?
>>>
>>> So I'm trying to run weewx-interceptor directly, which in my case was
>>> given as PYTHONPATH=bin python bin/user/interceptor.py
>>> --device=fineoffset-bridge --mode=listen --port=8007
>>> I used /usr/share/weewx/user/interceptor.py and got an error in line
>>> 302, "Import Error: no module named weewx.drivers". So I tried
>>> interceptor.py --help, as suggested in github, and got the same error.
>>>
>>> Since I'm so all over the place I haven't yet attached logs or configs
>>> yet. I need direction.
>>>
>>
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