Another data point, my station is missing some location info and barometric pressure on the Android app. I have verified my upload data on the WU station web page and everything looks good. One thing WU "lost" is my hardware type. I have reset the station hardware info so we'll see what happens. I have also opened a ticket with them on this issue. FWIW, a few years back WU moved some PWS stations to a new server and messed up my station. I wonder if they have performed some data house cleaning and mucked up a few things?
I'll update the thread when I have additional info. Thanks all for the input. Doug B. On Sunday, August 7, 2022 at 9:02:10 AM UTC-7 tom.h...@gmail.com wrote: > I might have a hint about this. For quite some time, my VP2 (KAKWASIL2) > was one of very few PWS in my area. I had the same issues you described, > where it would disappear from the map but when viewed directly it would be > uploading. I went through all the troubleshooting steps with WU, and we > essentially came down to the sanity checks - if your weather is too far off > the "normal" reports then it's considered "bad" and not displayed until > "corrected". Thing is, my station is close to town, while the "official" > airport weather is several miles away and across a small set of hills, so > can be quite different. With no other reports to compare to, mine was > considered "off". > > As more stations came online, and more data was available, mine became > "more reliable" since more stations showed similar data. RapidFire adds > more data into the mix, so if your data is consistent and within certain > limits, then it's considered "more reliable". Also, if there's other PWS in > the area and all show similar data it helps. Mine would drop for a day or > two, then suddenly you'd query for zip 99654 and it would show as the > official town weather again :-) > > WU algorithms are known to be a bit flaky with sanity checks, but have > gotten much better over the years as more data has come online. Still, if > you're in an area with somewhat different temp/wind patterns, it can cause > WU's AI some headaches. > > > On Saturday, August 6, 2022 at 11:21:38 AM UTC-8 Alastair L wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Many thanks for all your responses and suggestions. As a result I >> believe I can report success, my station now appears reliably in the WU >> maps. >> >> I checked out the time on both my Pi and the Vantage console against my >> PC time and all were within seconds of each other. So I tried I editing >> the rapidfire setting in the config file as suggested and changed it from >> false to true. For the first time in ages my station (ILAIRG10) appeared >> on WU maps and continues to appear - great! I've waited some hours to >> confirm this is not just a fluke, and so far the station appears every time >> I have I've checked. This hasn't been possible in months. I have wasted a >> lot of time fretting over this problem and it's great to have a solution. >> >> I can see from the weewx log that weewx now sends data to WU every 2 >> seconds now instead of every 5 minutes previously and that the WU data >> table still updates every 5 minutes. Curiously the time stamp on my WU >> data table changed as soon as the rapid fire option was made, from e.g. >> 2:00PM, 2:05 PM, 2:10 PM etc to e.g 2:34 PM, 2:39 PM, 2:44 PM etc. These >> post rapidfire change time stamps now precisely align with the other two >> local stations (that I believe not running on Weewx), but what the >> significance is escapes me. The comment made regarding WU dropping >> sites from the map if they aren't uploading reliably looks to have been >> true for me, but why, to my likely simplistic understanding, firing data at >> WU 150 times in 5 minutes, instead of a nice sedate once, improves >> reliability surprises me. I'm not really clear what the logic behind >> this is but it works for me. Perhaps someone can suggest an explanation? >> >> Anyway, I'm happy now and thanks once again to you all for your input. >> >> Alastair >> >>> >>> -- 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/dbf454bc-6fb3-4d76-8c97-46cb4efcebe0n%40googlegroups.com.
