To add a plot for the rain rate, in your weewx.conf, add to the existing
"StdReport/SeasonsReport" (The grey colored parts should already exist, add
the black bold parts)
[StdReport]
[[SeasonsReport]]
# The SeasonsReport uses the 'Seasons' skin, which contains the
# images, templates and plots for the report.
skin = Seasons
enable = true
HTML_ROOT = /var/www/html/weewx5/seasons
* [[[DisplayOptions]]] plot_groups = barometer,
tempdew, tempfeel, hum, wind, winddir, windvec, rain, rainRate, ET, UV,
radiation, lightning, tempin, humin, tempext, humext, tempext2, humext2,
templeaf, wetleaf, tempsoil, moistsoil, pm [[[ImageGenerator]]]
[[[[day_images]]]] [[[[[[rainRate]]]]]]*
* [[[[week_images]]]]*
* [[[[[weekrainRate]]]]]*
* [[[[[[rainRate]]]]]]*
* [[[[month_images]]]]*
* [[[[[monthrainRate]]]]]*
* [[[[[[rainRate]]]]]]*
* [[[[year_images]]]]*
* [[[[[yearrainRate]]]]]*
* [[[[[[rainRate]]]]]]*
[email protected] schrieb am Mittwoch, 30. Juli 2025 um 10:18:32 UTC+2:
> I shall be watching!
>
> This month I replaced all the Davis electronics (except the console),
> after hours of troubleshooting with Davis Support failed to isolate the
> problem. The refurbished Davis system has been running for a week now, and
> I cannot help but be a bit paranoid. However, the recent outage is the
> only one in six or seven years of service. In addition to the ISS, the
> system has a Sensor Transmitter for the wind station (at 33 foot elevation)
> and a Repeater.
>
> Meanwhile, my weather website has been idle, and I changed hosting
> service. So I decided this was a good time to upgrade from weewx 4 to
> weewx 5.
>
> Again, thanks.
>
> RLH
> On Wednesday, July 30, 2025 at 7:55:01 AM UTC [email protected] wrote:
>
>> I am pretty confident that someone here is having a rainRate plot
>> generated, using the "Season" skin and can provide a configuration snippet.
>> If not, I can do this some time later this week. Until then, reading the
>> referenced docs should enable you placing the snippet into the right
>> position.
>>
>> [email protected] schrieb am Mittwoch, 30. Juli 2025 um 09:42:11 UTC+2:
>>
>>> I thank you for the encouragement and reference, Michael. I shall give
>>> it a try. (Perhaps my motivation is vanity, so that I can boast, "It
>>> rained harder at my place than it did at yours.")
>>>
>>> RLH
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, July 30, 2025 at 7:35:41 AM UTC [email protected] wrote:
>>>
>>>> You can solve this without programming anything, simply by
>>>> configuration. And of course you modified your installation, at least by
>>>> entering values during the installation, when prompted.
>>>> The customization you would like to do requires manual actions, editing
>>>> a Section of the "Seasons" skin.
>>>>
>>>> A first read: https://weewx.com/docs/5.1/custom/custom-reports/
>>>>
>>>> For your needs it boils down to adding and enabling a plot for rainRate
>>>> for day/week/month/year, which is not predefined in skin.conf of
>>>> "Seasons".
>>>>
>>>> [email protected] schrieb am Mittwoch, 30. Juli 2025 um 09:14:11 UTC+2:
>>>>
>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> Graham Eddy - rainRate, like rain, is an obstype with a tag for
>>>>> cheetah templates
>>>>>
>>>>> [email protected] - It's all there. Simply configure your WeeWX
>>>>> installation to do so. How? That depends very much on your particular
>>>>> installation.
>>>>> -------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> I am afraid that the project is beyond my programming ability.
>>>>> Perhaps I could pay someone to do the work.
>>>>>
>>>>> My installation has no modification; it is a Davis Vantage Pro2 with
>>>>> the old LCD console and USB-interface data logger.
>>>>>
>>>>> www.alysonwonderland.org
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wednesday, July 30, 2025 at 5:21:14 AM UTC Graham Eddy wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> rainRate, like rain, is an obstype with a tag for cheetah templates
>>>>>> *⊣GE⊢*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 30 Jul 2025, at 3:16 pm, '[email protected]' via weewx-user <
>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's all there. Simply configure your WeeWX installation to do so.
>>>>>> How? That depends very much on your particular installation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Russell Harris schrieb am Mittwoch, 30. Juli 2025 um 06:18:57 UTC+2:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A few weeks ago, we had rain which my Davis Vantage Pro2 reported
>>>>>>> falling at over seven inches per hour, but after a five or ten minutes
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> rate subsided to a much lower rate.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regrettably, the Vantage Pro2 does not record rain rates, but merely
>>>>>>> reports the instantaneous value. It would be nice for weewx to report
>>>>>>> rain
>>>>>>> rate in the same manner (graphical) as wind speed or temperature is
>>>>>>> reported.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> RLH
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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