In the LOOP packets, dayRain, monthRain, and yearRain are emitted by the hardware, while rain is calculated by the driver as a delta between monthRain values.
For archive records, all four come from the hardware. -tk On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 2:17 PM Colin Larsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > > I wonder if somebody could help explain rain recording for me. I use a > weather station that emulates the Davis protocol without logger. > > Yesterday we had the first rain for the year. This showed up correctly in > the dayRain and the rainRate of the MQTT data that Pat uses for the live > part of the Belchertown skin. But - it did not appear to show in the daily > rain field or the monthly rain field or the NOAA report > > I grabbed a Loop packet from running weewxd and got this > > LOOP: 2019-01-07 17:32:15 NZDT (1546835535) appTemp: 23.7290876761, > barometer: 1015.40848942, cloudbase: 663.108926947, consBatteryVoltage: > 11.16, dateTime: 1546835535, dayET: 0.0, dayRain: 0.0690000000172, > dewpoint: 16.3395209055, extraAlarm1: 0, extraAlarm2: 0, extraAlarm3: 0, > extraAlarm4: 0, extraAlarm5: 0, extraAlarm6: 0, extraAlarm7: 0, > extraAlarm8: 0, extraHumid7: 58.0, extraTemp1: 0.0, extraTemp2: 0.0, > extraTemp3: 0.0, extraTemp4: 0.0, extraTemp5: 0.0, extraTemp6: 0.0, > extraTemp7: 24.4444444444, forecastIcon: 0, forecastRule: 0, heatindex: > 21.6111111111, humidex: 26.445811289, inDewpoint: 14.5043887024, > inHumidity: 50.0, insideAlarm: 0, inTemp: 25.7222222222, leafTemp1: 0.0, > leafTemp2: 0.0, leafTemp3: 0.0, leafTemp4: 0.0, leafWet1: 0.0, leafWet2: > 0.0, leafWet3: 0.0, leafWet4: 0.0, maxSolarRad: 568.582912358, monthET: > 0.0, monthRain: 0.0, outHumidity: 72.0, outsideAlarm1: 0, outsideAlarm2: > 0, outTemp: 21.6111111111, radiation: 169.0, rain: 0.0, rainAlarm: 0, > rainRate: 0.0, soilLeafAlarm1: 0, soilLeafAlarm2: 0, soilLeafAlarm3: 0, > soilLeafAlarm4: 0, soilMoist1: 0.0, soilMoist2: 0.0, soilMoist3: 0.0, > soilMoist4: 0.0, soilTemp1: 0.0, soilTemp2: 0.0, soilTemp3: 0.0, soilTemp4: > 0.0, stormRain: 0.0, stormStart: 943873200, sunrise: 1546772400, sunset: > 1546772400, trendIcon: -1, txBatteryStatus: 0, usUnits: 16, UV: 2.3, > windchill: 21.6111111111, windDir: None, windGust: 1.60934800001, > windGustDir: 215.0, windSpeed: 0.0, windSpeed10: 1.60934800001, yearET: > 0.0, yearRain: 0.060000000015 > > So the dayRain shows the correct amount (in cm of rain) and the yearRain > is close but rain and monthRain are empty. The rainRate has recorded ok > though. > I had a look at the archive db and the rain field is empty - which I guess > makes sense. > > So I guess the question I have is - does the data in Loop packet above > come from Weewx or the station and where should I start to look for why the > data is missing? > > Many thanks for any help > > Colin > > -- > 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]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
