Best approach to capture a second rain gauge

[Brad Furman]

I have acquired a second weather station and would like to place it on the other side of my property. I would like to capture the temp, humidity, rain and rain rate of this so I have two data sources. 

I can easily send the temp to extraTemp1 and humidity to extraHumid1, but a little torn on what to do with the extra Rain field as there isn’t a field for an extra rain. 

Now, I know I can add another field and service based on the customization guide, to tell it to calculate rainRate2. 

My other option I was thinking was to park this data in either snow/snowrate or hail/hailrate but I feel like this is a little messy to do and could confuse me down the road. 

What is the best approach to go about adding a second rain and rainrate field while letting weewx know it’s a special field that needs to take into consideration that it needs to be calculated and all? Anything stock in here to take advantage of short of writing a custom service?

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Brad Furman
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[Tom Keffer]

Why not run two separate instances of WeeWX, one for each weather station, then combine the results in a single report?

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[bdf0506]

I suppose I could. Was trying to keep it all in one instance / one database. But if you think that would be best practice, then I can explore that option.

[Tom Keffer]

By using two separate instances, you simplify each instance: they are running they were intended to run. For example, faults with the hardware can be dealt with cleanly.

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