If I wanted to have a 1-minute-interval for occasional looking into data I'd set up an extra WeeWX instance for it that only stores db values, without an active skin, beside a standard installation with a 5-minute-interval.
Cameron D schrieb am Mittwoch, 19. November 2025 um 05:32:24 UTC+1: > " That's exactly the use case for MQTT and data from loop packets..." > No, it is a different use. I am interested in retaining historical > records. When the storm was on I had no time to look at transient records, > and afterwards I was inspecting damage and working out what needed > immediate attention. > > The 1 minute interval is a trade-off I accepted for storing the occasional > rapidly changing conditions against extra storage volume. The other > example I quoted, it was months afterwards when I looked at the detail. > > On Wednesday, 19 November 2025 at 7:53:47 am UTC+10 John Smith wrote: > >> On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 at 01:49, 'Cameron D' via weewx-user < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> It's all just idle curiosity and most of the time nothing changes in 5 >>> minutes, but when a storm cell come through things change very quickly. >>> That last one, for example, had a rain event that was over in 9 minutes >>> (although the hail followed). The heaviest rain was 6mm in one minute, with >>> 23mm over the 9 minutes. The wind peak occurred 2 minutes before the rain >>> peak. >> >> >> That's exactly the use case for MQTT and data from loop packets, and it's >> even more frequent than minutely, but it doesn't need to store loads of >> data when nothing is happening :D >> > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/67509434-5ac3-48dc-92fe-5f7bc1b1f446n%40googlegroups.com.
