You and me both... It might be worth seeing what a full day looks like. Also, if it would work for you using the day/month/year ET values might make sense...
On Monday, 28 December 2020 at 17:31:42 UTC-5 gary....@gmail.com wrote: > Perhaps I need a tutorial on ET as used by reported by WeeWX. > So, I have made the setting change suggested. > Loop values have remained at ET: 0.0 > > I'd think the actual value sent by the logger should be the value > displayed by the skin. Kinda like weatherlink does. > > [image: ET-WL.PNG][image: ET-WW1.PNG] > > On Monday, December 28, 2020 at 11:10:13 AM UTC-5 gary....@gmail.com > wrote: > >> This seems to work. Currently ET at the logger is 0.002 so it is being >> reported in loop packets as 0.0 >> I'll see later in the day, but it sounds like exactly what is needed in >> this case. >> >> On Monday, December 28, 2020 at 10:26:13 AM UTC-5 bell...@gmail.com >> wrote: >> >>> I think the next step would be to capture the loop packets between two >>> archive records and manually sum up the ET values. Or you could estimate >>> the number of loop packets between archive records and if it is close to >>> 100 call it done. Net, it seems like everything is working as expected. >>> MQTTSubscribeDriver is creating the packets. WeeWX is summing the ET values >>> in the packets to create the archive record. >>> Mulling this over a bit more, I think setting contains_total = true for >>> your etday field might be the answer. This was added for MQTT rain data >>> that is cumulative to calculate a delta for WeeWX. >>> rich >>> >>> On Sunday, 27 December 2020 at 23:24:59 UTC-5 gjr80 wrote: >>> >>>> Also, remember under a traditional Davis console/logger/vantage driver >>>> setup you will see approx 120 loop packets per five minute archive record. >>>> So seeing an archive record value that is 100 times a loop value is not >>>> unreasonable for a cumulative field such as ET or rain. The difference >>>> here >>>> is that a traditional Davis console/logger/vantage driver setup you do not >>>> see loop ET values. >>>> >>>> The only way to know if it it working properly is to understand who is >>>> emitting what and then do the maths to confirm the result one way or >>>> another. >>>> >>>> Gary >>>> >>> -- 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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/d258f315-8929-46f3-99b1-0e11dee81541n%40googlegroups.com.
