Belchertown UV Index and Solar Radiation

[Matt Johnson]

I recently added UV and Solar sensors to my Davis VP2 and have them up and running reporting to my Davis console, WeatherLink Live, etc. All is working there.

I've been reading through the docs for WeeWx and Belchertown and there isn't a lot I am coming across other than the 'UV' and 'radiation' variables being where this data is captured. A search here turns up some charting and custom hook integrations but not so much as to getting the data to appear.

I attempted to get UV and Solar Radiation to appear on the skin for my website (shakerweather.com) by adding the variables to the conf as follows:

station_observations = "barometer", "cloudbase", "cloud_cover", "dewpoint", "outHumidity", "UV", "radiation", "rainWithRainRate"

The placeholders for UV and radiation do appear now, but have values of N/A.

Surely I am missing a config or using the wrong variables somewhere?

[Matt Johnson]

I figured it out. Since I am using WeatherLink Live (WLL) to feed WeeWx using the parameters for the custom driver (https://github.com/michael-slx/weewx-weatherlink-live)

I needed to add uv and solar to the mapping in weewx.config: mapping = th:1, th_indoor, baro, rain:1, wind:1, uv:1, solar:1, thw:1, thsw:1, windchill:1. Belchertown is now reflecting 0 UV and 0w (it's night) instead of N/A with the same config as my original message.