Graphing Lightning Strikes/Distance With Belchertown Sking & Ecowitt WH57

[Alan Bryant]

Hello Everyone,

I am a very amateur weather enthusiast, so all of this amazing software that you guys have put together is phenomenal. Thank all of you so much for the time that you have put in to these products and the support!

I think that I have everything set up mostly how I want it, except for the Lightning Graph on the main page.

I used the code from a previous thread (https://groups.google.com/g/weewx-user/c/tunBoIOIXtI/m/dBchokefCgAJ) that seems to work, but since the GW1000 driver enters the  lightning_distance into the DB whether there are any new strikes or not, the distance gets graphed constantly.

Is there a way with HighCharts to tell it not to graph the distance unless there is a number of strikes > 0?

Specs:

Site: https://weather.bryantgeeks.com

Weewx: 4.5.1

Belchertown 1.3b1

GW1000 Driver: 0.3.1

Ecowitt GW1000

WH31

WS68

WH57

WH40

[Alan Bryant]

Forgot to add the graph code so that you guys don't have to go look it up.

            title = Lightning
              [[[lightning_strike_count]]]
                 name = Number of strikes
                 color = "#ffc83f"
              [[[lightning_distance]]]
                  name = Distance to Strike
                  color = "#f7f2b4"
                  y_label = "km"

[tarob...@gmail.com]

From my understanding, when graphs are being generated they are read from the weewx database (weewx.sdb if SQlite). The issue you are describing sounds like an issue with how the data is stored in the database and not with how Belchertown is graphing. I had similar issue when I first started collecting lightning data using an acurite lightning sensor. See: https://groups.google.com/g/weewx-user/c/xBihBm0jVls/m/J06dlCjlAAAJ for more info. This might help you.

[Alan Bryant]

Thank you so much for the pointer! I think the portion in the [[Corrections]] is exactly what I needed. Now to wait for some lightning!