Sorry for the deletion. I had posted a bad config.

Thanks for the answer.

On Saturday, September 24, 2016 at 7:24:39 PM UTC-7, Tom Keffer wrote:
>
> Hello, Terry
>
> Again, weewx does not actually send rain rate to the WU. It sends the 
> total amount of rain that fell during the last 60 minutes. WU then 
> calculates rain rate from that using their magic formula. Apparently, in 
> your case, their servers failed to calculate it at all.
>
> I have learned from long experience not to go chasing problems with the WU 
> servers. They are very unreliable and one could go crazy trying to work 
> around their many limitations.
>
> -tk
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Terry Hardie <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> I'm having the same issue. I'm currently running on "software" mode, but 
>> whenever there is a heavy downpour, Wunderground goes to "---":
>>
>>
>> https://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/hdfForecast?query=-35.574%2C174.521&sp=IMARUANG2&MR=1
>>
>> Here's a snippet from my DB:
>>
>> sqlite> select dateTime, rainRate from archive;
>> ...
>> 1474730700|0.0
>> 1474731000|0.0
>> 1474731300|0.0
>> 1474731600|0.0800000000000001
>> 1474731900|0.12
>> 1474732200|0.12
>> 1474732500|0.0799999999999999
>> 1474732800|0.12
>> 1474733100|0.2
>> 1474733400|0.24
>> 1474737300|0.2
>> 1474737600|0.2
>> 1474737900|0.16
>> 1474738200|0.12
>> 1474738500|0.04
>> 1474738800|0.0
>> 1474739100|0.0
>> 1474739400|0.0
>>
>> root@OfficeAP-ac:/home/weewx# bin/weewxd --version
>> 3.5.0
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 6:29:01 PM UTC-7, Tom Keffer wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello, Travis
>>>
>>> Weewx does not actually use rainRate for what it sends to the WU. 
>>> Instead, it sums the amount of rain over the last hour, and sends that. 
>>>
>>> So, let's see what's in the database. I'm assuming your time zone is EDT.
>>>
>>> If you have not done so, first install the utility sqlite3:
>>>
>>> *sudo apt-get install sqlite3*
>>>
>>> Then run it against your sqlite database:
>>>
>>> *sqlite3 /var/lib/weewx/weewx.sdb*
>>> sqlite> *select datetime(dateTime, 'unixepoch', 'localtime'), rain from 
>>> archive where dateTime>= 1458100800 and dateTime <= 1458104400;*
>>> sqlite> *.quit*
>>>
>>> If I've done the time zone math correctly, this will show all the rain 
>>> values between midnight and 1am your time for today (3/16). Please post the 
>>> results.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Travis Bully <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello All - 
>>>>
>>>> I have a slight issue where my Weather Underground station is reporting 
>>>> "--" for Precip. Rate.
>>>>
>>>> I'm running a Davis Envoy with the latest version of Weewx.  
>>>> I'veverified that the rain rate is working from the sensor as I also have 
>>>> a 
>>>> Vantage Pro2 Console where it displays as expected.
>>>>
>>>> Here's a link to my station:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KMICANTO5#history
>>>>
>>>> I've tried both "prefer_hardware" and "hardware" in my conf file.
>>>>
>>>> If someone could provide me with troubleshooting pointers, I'd be 
>>>> grateful.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> (attached my latest conf file)
>>>>
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