GW1100-WS90 :Missing rainfall values

[didier belin]

I can no longer find the rainfall values in weewx. all others are visible via the seasons skin. Equipment used: ecowitt g1100; ws90.
sue ecowitt.net: no problem everything is indicated. via the command.
PYTHONPATH=/usr/share/weewx python -m user.gw1000 --test-driver:ok nothing seems to be missing.
I don't see where in weewx.conf or skin.conf, I have to go see

[didier belin]

Despite modifying weewx.conf , as quoted in another post

weewx.conf 

....

poll_interval = 20
    # The driver to use:
    driver = user.gw1000
    ip_address = 192.168.X.X
    port = 45000    
    [[field_map_extensions]]
        rain = p_rain
        stormRain = p_rainevent
        rainRate = p_rainrate
        dayRain = p_rainday
        weekRain = p_rainweek
        monthRain = p_rainmonth
        yearRain = p_rainyear

..... 

2023-07-24 16:33:21 CEST (1690209201): 'dateTime': '1690209201', 'daymaxwind': '5.2', 'dayRain': '8.0', 'extraHumid1': '56', 'extraHumid2': '85', 'extraHumid3': '67', 'extraTemp1': '24.9', 'extraTemp2': '19.2', 'extraTemp3': '22.0', 'extraTemp9': '19.1', 'inHumidity': '65', 'inTemp': '21.9', 'leafWet1': '0', 'lightning_distance': '27', 'lightning_last_det_time': '1690191720', 'lightning_strike_count': '0', 'lightningcount': '9', 'luminosity': '36350.0', 'monthRain': '43.5', 'outHumidity': '76', 'outTemp': '19.9', 'pm2_5': '4.0', 'pm2_51_24h_avg': '2.0', 'pressure': '997.3', 'rain': '0.0', 'rainRate': '0.0', 'relbarometer': '997.3', 'soilMoist1': '41', 'stormRain': '12.1', 'usUnits': '17', 'UV': '2', 'uvradiation': '54.0', 'weekRain': '12.4', 'wh31_ch1_batt': '0', 'wh31_ch1_sig': '4', 'wh31_ch2_batt': '0', 'wh31_ch2_sig': '4', 'wh31_ch3_batt': '0', 'wh31_ch3_sig': '4', 'wh41_ch1_batt': '4', 'wh41_ch1_sig': '4', 'wh51_ch1_batt': '1.3', 'wh51_ch1_sig': '4', 'wh57_batt': '5', 'wh57_sig': '4', 'windDir': '301', 'windGust': '3.2', 'windSpeed': '1.5', 'wn34_ch1_batt': '1.6', 'wn34_ch1_sig': '4', 'wn35_ch1_batt': '1.54', 'wn35_ch1_sig': '4', 'ws90_batt': '2.58', 'ws90_sig': '4', 'yearRain': '92.8'

[Rainer Lang]

maybe weewx is not the culprit ....

did you set the piezo rain priority in your GW1100 ? (-->Rain totals --> Rainfall data priority --> Piezoelectric Rain Gauge)

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[didier belin]

the priority is the one you specified. As mentioned above on the ecowitt.net system, it works and on another interface (the weewx system is being tested): https://www.bel1.eu/pwsWD/index.php it also works

[gjr80]

Descriptions can help but 'it doesn't work' does not provide much to go on. You say ' I can no longer find the rainfall values in weewx', this implies that you were seeing rainfall from your WS90 appearing in WeeWX at some stage? Is this correct or has it never worked? What exactly is it you are not seeing? For example, 'there was 8mm of rain today but WeeWX shows 0mm on the main Seasons page and the rain plot shows nothing',

You are correct in that you need to add some [[field_map_extensions]] entries to have WS90 rainfall data appear in the 'standard' WeeWX rain related fields. When did you add these entries? Just now or some time ago? If 'just now' WeeWX will not have seen any earlier WS90 rainfall so I would not be surprised to see a lack of WS90 rainfall data appearing in WeeWX.

On Monday, 24 July 2023 at 16:00:54 UTC+1 lang....@googlemail.com wrote:

did you set the piezo rain priority in your GW1100 ? (-->Rain totals --> Rainfall data priority --> Piezoelectric Rain Gauge)

Rainfall data priority is not the issue here, WeeWX does not use (nor need) the setting irrespective of what rain gauges are in use

Gary 

[didier belin]

You're right, I was too impatient. I hadn't really paid attention to the rain data, because there was none except as of today. I only modified the weewx.conf file and more particularly the "gw1000" part today and therefore had to wait for the system to receive them;
Thanks for your help

[gjr80]

That will be it. You will see rainfall data from the GW1100/WS90 appearing in cumulative fields like dayRain, weekRain, monthRain and yearRain; but WeeWX does not record this (cumulative) data. Rather, WeeWX records the total rain seen per archive period. To calculate this WeeWX takes the difference between the value of one of these cumulative values (default is yearRain) at the end and start of an archive period. So whilst you might see rainfall data appearing in these cumulative fields, you will not see any WS90 rainfall data appearing in WeeWX reports until there is rainfall recorded (1) whilst WeeWX is running and (2) after the additional entries were added to [[field_map_extensions]]. 

I have been (long) working on a wiki page for Ecowitt gateway driver wiki that explains the handling of rainfall for the Ecowitt tipping gauges and the WS90, I guess I need to get that finalised and published.

Gary