Tracking Rainfall 9 AM to 9 AM (Australia)

[Robert D]

G'Day

I have Weewx running on a Pi4, with data coming in from a WeatherFlow Tempest. My question is - how do I configure Weewx to record rainfall Since 9 AM .

This is the standard used throughout Australia - it was necessary due to most recordings in the past being done manually at Post Offices.

[Graham Eddy]

i have been using this for a while

#evilbunny2008 attributed this in 2018 to Gary in australia

[Robert D]

Thanks Graham - looking at it with a text editor...it looks like it has been written to do what want.

But being a bit of a newby - I am not sure what to do with it..!!  My guess is something similar to the BigTempPanel..???

"copy wfpiconsole.include.kv to the /home/pi/wfpiconsole directory copy bigtempinclude.py to the /home/pi/wfpiconsole/lib directory

cp wfpiconsole.include.kv /home/pi/wfpiconsole/ cp bigtempinclude.py /home/pi/wfpiconsole/lib/

Change ownership on both files to pi

chown pi:pi /home/pi/wfpiconsole/lib/bigtempinclude.py chown pi:pi /home/pi/wfpiconsole/wfpiconsole.include.kv

Modify /home/pi/wfpiconsole/wfpiconsole.kv

Insert the following line on line 27: #:include wfpiconsole.include.kv

Modify /home/pi/wfpiconsole/main.py

Insert the following lines starting at line 226 from lib.bigtempinclude import BigTempPanel from lib.bigtempinclude import BigTempButton

Modify /home/pi/wfpiconsole/wfpiconsole.ini Beginning around line 50, modify the PrimaryPanel or SecondaryPanel section to enable the BigTemp panel in whichever position you like."

Rob.

[Graham Eddy]

put file in /home/weewx/bin/user/since.py (if /home/weewx is where weewx in installed) so python sees it as module user.since

add class user.since.Since to search_list_extensions in your skin.conf e.g.

[CheetahGenerator]

    # Possible encodings are 'html_entities', 'utf8', or 'strict_ascii'

    encoding = html_entities

    # Search list extensions

    search_list_extensions = user.since.Since, user.forecast.ForecastVariables

    [[SummaryByMonth]]

        # Reports that summarize "by month"

        [[[NOAA_month]]]

            encoding = utf8

            template = NOAA/NOAA-%Y-%m.txt.tmpl

update your .html.tmpl to use the $since timespan e.g.

<p>$since($hour=9).rain.sum.format(add_label=False)</p>

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[Greg from Oz]

I use the responsive skin: https://github.com/dcapslock/weewx-responsive-skin

Here is my weather site. https://weather.ubeaut.work/

It gets the rain from 9 a.m to 9 a.m. I think it comes installed like that. It may not as I have modified the website so much.

If it doesn't then you copy the since.py to /usr/share/weewx/user/

Then in the responsive skin.conf you add: user.since.Since like below:

search_list_extensions = user.aussearch.ausutils,user.historygenerator.MyXSearch,user.since.Since,user.xstats.ExtendedStatistics

In the /etc/weewx/skins/Responsive/index.html.tmpl

Add:

                      <tr>

                        <td>Today's Rain since 9am</td>

                        <td>$since($hour=9).rain.sum</td>

                      </tr>

I put it under this section:

<div class="panel-collapse collapse in" id="collapseAccTwoOne">

                <div class="panel-body">

                  <table class="table table-condensed table-responsive" style="">

                    <tbody>

                      <tr>

Then you let it run a report generation and then hopefully it will be there.

I have just noticed another person has answered as well....similar to what I have written.

Good luck....

[Greg from Oz]

Also there is an android app called weewx weather app and it also has rain from 9.am

I use that app every day.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.odiousapps.weewxweather&hl=en&gl=US

It uses the data created from you weather site.

On Monday, 1 March 2021 at 15:59:50 UTC+11 Robert D wrote:

[Robert D]

Thanks - that has given me lots to look at.

Working out how to install a new skin will take some research & reading up...

Everything in my setup is "standard" - I haven't learned enough to start modifying things yet.

I will have a look at the APP.

What I am aiming for is  BOM style monthly Climate Stats report for my location.

But I am finding the curve a bit steep just now. :-)

[Graham Eddy]

after adding since.py file to bin/user/, and adding user.since.Since to skin.conf, you could just edit your .html.tmpl files to change ‘$day.rain.sum’ to ‘$since($hour=9).rain.sum’ (i.e. ‘$day’ → ‘$since($hour=9)’), so that all your daily rain is since 9am instead of since midnight. i think that is worth a go. just save copies of the files you are about to change if you want that backstop

[Greg Reive]

That's a good idea. See if it works first.

Then he just needs it to rain between 9 a.m and 9 a.m 😊

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[Robert D]

With a LOT of help from "Greg from Oz".....and despite some awful typos by me.....

I now have it working - and a bit more of an understanding of the value of cut and paste..!!