Davis Vantage Vue. I guess I can live with the update rate as long as WU can handle it. Thanks for the information on rtfreq.
On Friday, November 5, 2021 at 12:49:45 PM UTC-7 gjr80 wrote: > What station are you using? If enabled rapid fire updates are sent on > receipt of every loop packet, so for Davis stations it’s every 2.5 odd > seconds, for other stations it’s different and for some stations that send > loop packets at different intervals it’s variable. So you might not be > using as much bandwidth as you think. > > The rtfreq config option is a bit of window dressing really; all it does > is set the value of the rtfreq parameter in the rapid fire data string that > is sent or WU. What WU does with it nobody knows, but as far as WeeWX is > concerned it’s just a fixed number sent to WU in every rapid fire packet. > > Gary > > On Saturday, 6 November 2021 at 02:34:50 UTC+10 [email protected] wrote: > >> "rtfreq >> >> When rapidfire is set, the rtfreq parameter is sent, and should >> correspond to "the frequency of updates in seconds". Optional. Default >> is 2.5" >> >> That does not seem to do anything. Just trying to reduce the bandwidth to >> WU. There are few, if any, weather parameters that change fast enough that >> I need to see values faster than, say, 30 seconds. >> >> On Friday, November 5, 2021 at 8:48:08 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: >> >>> No easy way to do it. You'd have to subclass class StdWunderground, then >>> override method new_loop_packet() to filter the LOOP packets down to what >>> you want. >>> >>> Have to ask: the whole point of RF is to give realtime displays on the >>> WU. What's the point of posting less often? >>> >>> On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 8:35 AM Roger Lee <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> How do I change the rapid fire update rate to WU? I would like to >>>> update once every 30 seconds. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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]. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/b6d526e1-d273-4c8a-9d7e-0a9e17a7934bn%40googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/b6d526e1-d273-4c8a-9d7e-0a9e17a7934bn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/14e6bc6f-22b1-444e-8d4e-f02522c508e0n%40googlegroups.com.
