Yep, looks like I'm all good to go...thanks for your assistance Gary. On Monday, 23 January 2017 19:26:05 UTC-5, gjr80 wrote: > > Yes, in weewx rain is the total rainfall that occurred in the period > concerned; for a loop packet that is the period since the last loop packet > that contained a rain field, for an archive record it is the period since > the last archive record ie the archive_interval. It is not uncommon for > some stations to report a cumulative rain value, most (all?) weewx drivers > handle this by caching the last seen rain value and using the difference > between that and the current rain value. No matter, sounds like you are > on top of it! > > Gary > > On Tuesday, 24 January 2017 09:22:38 UTC+10, Robert Mantel wrote: >> >> I managed to iron out all my problems (at least with my weather station >> that is ;-)). I experimented a great deal with weewx and measuring rain >> (turns out is was abnormally warm on the weekend and we had rain and not >> snow). I noticed that simply readying the dailyrainin value from my phant >> server which is stored on the particle p1 microcontroller so it keeps track >> of the total rain during 24 hours. I realized that weewx did not like me >> feeding this value into the rain variable (i.e. dailyrainin = rain), >> because weewx then thinks that 0.011" of rain is falling every 2 minutes! >> So what I did was to simply record bucket tips (0.011") per 2 minute >> sensor cycle then purge that variable in the particle p1 once it posts to >> my phant server. That seemed to do the trick and now I'm getting more >> believable values for rain. I guess I'll have to wait for spring to really >> test it out. >> >>
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