Acurite Bridge 5x1 Sensor - Rainfall mapping

[bdf0506]

I'm trying to properly map an Acurite 5x1 sensor to the configurations. I am using the weewx interceptor as dns hijack mode, listening on port 8080. So the sensor transmits to the SmartHUB, and then transmits to the server that is running WeeWx.

This is the sensor that I have: https://www.acurite.com/5-in-1-weather-sensor-temperature-humidity-rainfall-wind-speed-wind-direction-vn1txca1-06004rm.html

When I look at the rainfall in my raw logs that are being captured, I see the following listed in the raw packet logs:

'rainfall.00003420.24C86EXXXXXX': 0.0

'rain_total.00003420.24C86EXXXXXX': 0.01

In WeeWx, where should these fields map to? I see by default my options are "rainRate" and "rain", but what is the proper mapping? Perhaps I should only map one field and let WeeWx calculate the rest? Any guidance is much appreciated.

[RobbH]

With a very similar setup, here's what's in the sensor map section of my weewx.conf (changing my sensor ID number to yours):

rain = rainfall.00003420.* 

weeWX calculates the daily rain total.

[Brad Furman]

Thanks. But what is rain_total from the Acurite? Is this something that acurite has calculated for me? Sounds like it doesn't need to be used/mapped.

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[RobbH]

Right. There is no place to map it.

An Acurite console will display this total for the day, but weeWX calculates its own daily total.