Hard to say without seeing the log, but if I had to hazard a guess, I'd say you're not consistently using the same copy of weewx.conf for all runs. One of the copies does not have rainRate in [StdWXCalculate].
But, that's just a guess. On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 1:58 PM James Bellanca <jbella...@gmail.com> wrote: > Appreciate the help so far. I had to wait for it to start raining again to > do anything haha. And ok, so this is very strange behavior. > > I stopped the weewx service, and ran it directly (log of the terminal > window is attached). rainRate calculates fine, AND updates the database > fine, just like it should. I stop the direct run, and run it as a service > again, and it's working fine now! HOWEVER – Those results are weird, so I > did it all again from scratch - rebooted, ran at startup as a service (no > rain rate in the database again, just like before!), stopped it, ran it > directly (rain rate works fine), stopped it, started the service (and now > it works again?!). So it calculates rain rate, but won't update the > database with it, UNTIL I run it directly first, then after that, it works > even not directly... until I reboot, and it's broken again. > > Any idea what would cause that bizarre behavior??? > > Attaching three files - > (1) weewx.log from startup (directly) through some archive cycles where it > was actually raining (which you'll see near the end). > https://www.dropbox.com/s/iqmi3e61y1zn0yt/weewx-1224-1500.log?dl=1 > (2) terminal.log from running weewx directly. I can see in this that it's > definitely calculating rainRate. It's just not updating the field in the > database with the value it's calculating. > https://www.dropbox.com/s/xtbilj0s1ar9fw7/terminal-1224-1500.log?dl=1 > (3) full weewx.log from Dec 9th (when I confided this new Pi 4) with weewx > startup (as a service) through some archive cycles where it was raining, > including the direct starts today where it worked. > https://www.dropbox.com/s/6veouk8rets8lsg/weewx-420-full.log?dl=1 > > > On Thursday, December 24, 2020 at 1:00:04 PM UTC-5 tke...@gmail.com wrote: > >> The log does not include when weewx started up, so we can't tell which >> weewx.conf it is using, what the sensor map was, nor what services are >> being loaded. Otherwise, it looks normal. Do a restart, then post the log >> through the first archive cycle. >> >> If rainRate is being calculated (and your instrumented version of >> wxxtypes.py seems to indicate that it is), then, if it's in the schema, it >> should be incorporated into the database. >> >> If you run weewxd directly from the command line, it will print out all >> LOOP packets and archive records. What do they show for rainRate? >> >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 7:56 AM James Bellanca <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Here's a little more info. I added from log.debug lines in the >>> wxxtypes.py rainRater class. >>> >>> In get_scalar that calculated rainRate, right before "return rr", I >>> added: log.debug("rr=%s", rr) >>> In _setup in the if not... section right before the except error trap, I >>> added: log.debug("Log row %s %s %s.", time_ts, unit_system, rain) >>> >>> Now in the logs, I'm seeing a lot of rows like: >>> >>> Dec 24 10:36:56 raspberrypi weewx[18054] DEBUG weewx.wxxtypes: >>> rr=(0.0010683464566929135, 'inch_per_hour', 'group_rainrate') >>> >>> Dec 24 10:37:01 raspberrypi weewx[18054] DEBUG weewx.wxxtypes: >>> rr=(0.0015807874015748033, 'inch_per_hour', 'group_rainrate') >>> ... >>> >>> Dec 24 10:42:04 raspberrypi weewx[18054] DEBUG weewx.wxxtypes: >>> rr=(0.0017618897637795277, 'inch_per_hour', 'group_rainrate') >>> I've been watching the log for 10 mins now and I'm not seeing any "Log >>> row..." debug messages. >>> But, this means is calculating rainRate, but it's not updating the >>> database with what it's calculating for some reason. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, December 24, 2020 at 9:39:13 AM UTC-5 James Bellanca wrote: >>> >>>> Both running on Python 3. >>>> >>>> $ ps ax | grep python >>>> 831 ? Sl 468:45 *python3* /usr/share/weewx/weewxd --daemon >>>> --pidfile=/var/run/weewx.pid /etc/weewx/weewx.conf >>>> >>>> Attaching 3 files - the weewx.conf files from both 4.1.1 and 4.2.2, and >>>> the logs from 4.2.0 from 12/21 through today. It's been raining all morning >>>> today (12/24), and same thing - 4.1.1 calcs the rainRate, but 4.2.0 >>>> doesn't. (weewx.conf files have been renamed to include the version >>>> number.) Sensor maps between them are both the same - and it's def getting >>>> the rain value itself correct and inserting it to the database fine. I >>>> don't see anything suspicious in the log, either. I appreciate the help! >>>> >>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/tfvngl92flq9a4b/weewx-4.1.1.conf?dl=1 >>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/33uakjaj8oix3yk/weewx-4.2.0.conf?dl=1 >>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/g9egyues81u87qj/weewx-4.2.0.log?dl=1 >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thursday, December 24, 2020 at 8:15:44 AM UTC-5 tke...@gmail.com >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> In addition to Peter's questions, what do you have for a sensor map? >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 9:46 PM p q <peterq...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Any messages in the log? Did you switch python versions? >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 9:21 PM James Bellanca <jbel...@gmail.com> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Btw, I've even checked/compared the rain rate data in the SDB files, >>>>>>> and all other data is populated the same between the two instances, >>>>>>> except >>>>>>> the blank rain rate field. Look at the data in the first 10 rows of each >>>>>>> file for 12/21. (Ignore the fact that Excel presents some of the small >>>>>>> rain >>>>>>> numbers exponentially - they're right in the database, it's just an >>>>>>> Excel >>>>>>> thing.) You'll see that it's adding up the rain values perfectly - just >>>>>>> off >>>>>>> very slightly due to timing. But, rainRate's = 0 in the 4.2.0 file, so >>>>>>> it's >>>>>>> not calculating. 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