It may be of interest to you that I had problems with the rain rate being reported as 0.00 all the time. I eventually tracked this down to the weewx.conf file having cm/hr rather than mm/hr as the measurement required. This was in the Units Group section of Standard Report and Defaults lower down.
On Saturday, 26 December 2020 at 02:02:22 UTC+13 jbel...@gmail.com wrote: > I do appreciate the guess, but I know they’re all using the stone conf > file since there’s only one! :-) > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 24, 2020, at 6:56 PM, Tom Keffer <tke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 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 <jbel...@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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