Re: [weewx-user] Re: sum vs wsum for archive_day_rain

2022-08-25 Thread gjr80
> So even for monthly average temperature I guess I can use sum instead of wsum. Well no, because you do not know whether the archive interval for all of the records is the same. For obs, such as rain, where you are interested in the absolute sum for each day (or month or year) you use the sum

Re: [weewx-user] Re: sum vs wsum for archive_day_rain

2022-08-25 Thread Praveen Chandrasekaran
Thanks. That makes sense. So even for monthly average temperature I guess I can use sum instead of wsum. I am using wsum for temperature (monthly average) now and it seems to work fine. It was when I attempted it for rain that it went all wrong and then i modified the query based on obs_type. I am

[weewx-user] Re: sum vs wsum for archive_day_rain

2022-08-25 Thread gjr80
As a general rule if you are working with averages you should be using wsum and sumtime, but it really depends on what you are calculating. To understand you need to know what the daily summary wsum field contains and how it is different to the sum field. I have no idea what the time field is,