Hi John, I never did quite figure this out so that it works like I expect it to. I have tried it using the Seasons and Belchertown skins with slightly different results using what I thought were the same methods. I'll share all my settings with you, it doesn't work exactly as I had hoped, and I have not gone back in to debug it all in quite a while. If you want to take a look at what I did, maybe you'll find where I went wrong. I think I need to add some calculations to add things like lightning strikes in the last 3 hours, etc.
For lightning, my graphs seem to work in Seasons but not the current conditions. In Belchertown the current observations for lightning don't appear to work but the graphs are almost there. The Belchertown graph lightning count looks like it works but I would like them to report the minimum distance and I'm not sure that is what I am getting. Before I get into my particular settings, this guy https://weather.sangrephotography.com/ seems to have figured it out. I contacted him to see if he would share his Belchertown skin config file but he didn't answer me and I have not been able to reverse engineer it. As you can see from his page, he has a section for lightning that includes Time since last lightning strike, Strikes the last 3 hours, Strikes the last hour, Distance last strike, and Range of last strike. I would like to figure out how to replicate this. Here are my settings for the tempest sensor map in the weewx config file: [[sensor_map]] # This section is for handling data for the Tempest Weather Station outTemp = air_temperature.ST-########.obs_st outHumidity = relative_humidity.ST- ######## .obs_st pressure = station_pressure.ST- ######## .obs_st lightning_strikes = lightning_strike_count.ST- ######## .obs_st avg_distance = lightning_strike_avg_distance.ST- ########.obs_st outTempBatteryStatus = battery.ST- ########.obs_st windSpeed = wind_speed.ST- ########.rapid_wind windDir = wind_direction.ST- ########.rapid_wind luminosity = illuminance.ST- ########.obs_st UV = uv.ST- ########.obs_st rain = rain_accumulated.ST- ########.obs_st radiation = solar_radiation.ST- ########.obs_st lightning_distance = distance.ST- ########.evt_strike lightning_strike_count = lightning_strike_count.ST- ########.obs_st And also from weewx.conf, the Belchertown observation list: station_observations = barometer, dewpoint, outHumidity, rainWithRainRate, UV, cloud_cover, outTempBatteryStatus, lightning_strike_count, lightning_distance NOTE: I removed avg_distance and lightning_strikes from the sample I had because they displayed Invalid Observation. And again from weewx.conf: [StdCalibrate] [[Corrections]] lightning_distance = lightning_distance if lightning_strike_count > 0 else None and [Accumulator] [[lightning_strikes]] extractor = sum [[lightning_distance]] extractor = min [[avg_distance]] extractor = avg Here are some lightning entries for the Seasons skin: >From skin.conf: [DisplayOptions] # This list determines which types will appear in the "current conditions" # section, as well as in which order. observations_current = outTemp, heatindex, windchill, dewpoint, outHumidity, barometer, windSpeed, rain, rainRate, UV, radiation, lightning_strikes, lightning_distance, lightning_strike_count, avg_distance # This list determines which types will appear in the "statistics" and # "statistical summary" sections, as well as in which order. observations_stats = outTemp, heatindex, windchill, dewpoint, outHumidity, barometer, windSpeed, rain, rainRate, ET, UV, radiation, lightning_strikes, lightning_distance, aqi, outTempBatteryStatus # Some observations display a sum rather than min/max values obs_type_sum = rain, ET, hail, snow, lightning_strikes # Some observations display only the max or min value obs_type_max = rainRate, hailRate, snowRate, UV obs_type_min = lightning_distance plot_groups = barometer, tempdew, tempfeel, hum, wind, winddir, windvec, rain, ET, UV, radiation, lightning, lightningdistance, volt, hilow [[day_images]] x_label_format = %H:%M bottom_label_format = %x %X time_length = 97200 # 27 hours [[[daylightning]]] yscale = None, None, 1 plot_type = bar [[[[lightning_strike_count]]]] aggregate_type = sum aggregate_interval = hour label = Lightning (hourly total) [[[daylightningdistance]]] yscale = 0, 25, 5 line_type = None marker_type = box marker_size = 2 # plot_type = bar [[[[lightning_distance]]]] # aggregate_type = min # aggregate_interval = hour label = Lightning Distance Here are some lightning entries for the Belchertown skin: >From graph.conf: [[lightning]] title = Lightning [[[lightning_strike_count]]] name = Count yAxis = 0 yAxis_min = 0 # yAxis_tickInterval = 25 yAxis_label = "Number of Strikes" type = column [[[lightning_distance]]] name = Distance yAxis = 1 yAxis_min = 0 yAxis_tickInterval = 5 yAxis_label = "Distance (miles)" lineWidth = 0 [[[[marker]]]] enabled = true radius = 3 For all the graphs I only included the day version and not week, month, year as they are basically all the same. Good luck and let me know if you have any suggestions! Dan On Wednesday, October 2, 2024 at 10:42:01 AM UTC-4 michael.k...@gmx.at wrote: > In general, you have to configure the skin of your choice to display > lightning events. But, displaying lightning strikes are is a bit different > from other observations, since they are discrete events and not continuous. > You can e.g. show count per interval, distance, or both combined. Either > way, you need to configure your skin as desired, since the skins I know of, > don't display these observations out of the box. > > John Jacklin schrieb am Mittwoch, 2. Oktober 2024 um 14:39:48 UTC+2: > >> Just got back into WeeWX again after freeing up a Raspberry Pi. >> I have the Tempest WeatherFlow device and using the river from here >> >> https://github.com/captain-coredump/weatherflow-udp?tab=readme-ov-file >> >> I have it set up and tweaked to my liking here >> >> https://wx-watch.co.uk/weewx/ >> >> For the life of me I can't get it to show lightning strikes (It is set up >> to show strikes on the app) >> >> Here are my settings (with MY-ID being my station ST ID) >> >> [WeatherFlowUDP] >> >> driver = user.weatherflowudp >> log_raw_packets = False >> udp_address = <broadcast> >> # udp_address = 0.0.0.0 >> # udp_address = 255.255.255.255 >> udp_port = 50222 >> udp_timeout = 90 >> share_socket = False >> >> # >> # IMPORTANT - please edit in 'your' sensor ID below >> # (the value 'ST-00000025' here is an example only) >> # >> >> [[sensor_map]] >> outTemp = air_temperature.ST-MY-ID.obs_st >> outHumidity = relative_humidity.ST-MY-ID.obs_st >> pressure = station_pressure.ST-MY-ID.obs_st >> lightning_strikes = lightning_strike_count.ST-MY-ID.obs_st >> avg_distance = lightning_strike_avg_distance.ST-MY-ID.obs_st >> outTempBatteryStatus = battery.ST-MY-ID.obs_st >> windSpeed = wind_speed.ST-MY-ID.rapid_wind >> windDir = wind_direction.ST-MY-ID.rapid_wind >> luxXXX = illuminance.ST-MY-ID.obs_st >> UV = uv.ST-MY-ID.obs_st >> rain = rain_accumulated.ST-MY-ID.obs_st >> windBatteryStatus = battery.ST-MY-ID.obs_st >> radiation = solar_radiation.ST-MY-ID.obs_st >> rxCheckPercent = rssi.ST-MY-ID.device_status >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. 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