Belchertown skin 1.1 RainWithRainRate in cm not mm

[Neville Davis]

Hi

We have had rain for the first time in many months, we had about 20mm in about 30 mins...total daily rain is correct, but because of the intensity of the rain I had the station observation rain with rain rate displaying cm values not mm values, i.e 1.9 instead of 19mm and 3.5 instead of 35 mm/h. The daily rain totals correct in mm.

I cannot see where this data is calculated.

My weewx.conf MQTT section only has this

    [[MQTT]]

        server_url = mqtt:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

        topic = weather

        unit_system = METRIC

        binding = archive, loop

        aggregation = aggregate

The Belchertown section has this ( note I have a couple of special observations for my aircon and FARS temperature enclosure fan speed)

    [[Belchertown]]

        skin = Belchertown

        enable = true

        HTML_ROOT = public_html/belchertown

        [[[Extras]]]

            belchertown_root_url = http://xxxxxxxxx

            belchertown_locale = auto

            theme = auto

            theme_toggle_enabled = 1

            site_title = Nev and Gays Home

            home_page_header = Weather conditions

            mqtt_websockets_enabled = 1

            mqtt_websockets_host = xxxxxxxxxxx

            mqtt_websockets_port = 9001

            mqtt_websockets_topic = weather/loop

            mqtt_websockets_ssl = 0

            disconnect_live_website_visitor = 900000

            logo_image = ""

            #footer_copyright_text = ""

            forecast_enabled = 1

            darksky_secret_key = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

            earthquake_enabled = 0

            twitter_enabled = 1

            station_observations = inTemp, extraTemp1, acroomtempsensor, barometer, outHumidity, rainWithRainRate, farsSpeed

I expect I need to set the observation RainWithRainRate to mm, my question is how.

Thankyou

Nev

[Arend]

Hi Nev,

What worked for me is changing unit_system = METRIC into METRICWX under MQTT. But maybe you need to make some more changes (like I had to do), do you have a website to check?

Regards, Arend

Op zaterdag 24 oktober 2020 om 11:17:53 UTC+2 schreef nevilled...@gmail.com:

[Neville Davis]

Thanks I will try that, my web site   http://nevsweather.duckdns.org:8048/weather/belchertown/index.html

We are expecting a lot more rain this week so will be a good opportunity to get this fixed :). 

Regards

Neville

[Arend]

I can not connect to you MQTT broker, but noticed that you are using km/h for windspeed. In that case I think you should stick to METRIC for unit_system and make these changes to MQTT section:

    [[MQTT]]

        server_url = mqtt:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

        topic = weather

        unit_system = METRIC

        binding = archive, loop

        aggregation = aggregate

        [[[inputs]]]

                [[[[dayRain]]]]

                        name = dayRain_mm

                        units = mm

                [[[[rainRate]]]]

                        name = rainRate_mm_per_hour

                        units = mm_per_hour

Op zaterdag 24 oktober 2020 om 22:21:24 UTC+2 schreef nevilled...@gmail.com:

[Neville Davis]

Thanks I will try this edit.

Nev

[Neville Davis]

OK found my site had crashed, edited as suggested, after a light shower of rain the data looks good so far.

Thanks

Nev

[Neville Davis]

Now have had some good rain, display is now in mm.

Thanks Arend

Neville