Many many thanks - I will take a look 9when I get a free moment) On Thursday 3 October 2024 at 16:00:48 UTC+1 Dan Roman wrote:
> 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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