Meteotemplate Uploader possible bug

[Bill M]

The battery in my Davis is dying and yes the quick fix would be to change it but it's up on the roof which is currently covered in snow and ice so ....

When the battery dies, weewx uploads the last current temp, wind direction/speed to meteotemplate, not the null value that I would expect
If you go to http://www.sanfordweather.com//meteo/pages/station/graph.php and select today or yesterday you will see what I mean, the graph is flat from 6AM until the solar cell charges the capacitor at about 9AM

the rx check graph on http://www.sanfordweather.com/weewx/cmon/index.html shows 0% for the corresponding time frame

Is this the intended result or is it a bug?

[mwall]

please run weewx directly (not as a daemon) then look at the LOOP and REC output for the situations you describe.

that will tell you exactly what weewx is getting from the weather station

except for the wu uploader, weewx intentionally does not cache, so i suspect the davis station is sending the last values.

m 

[Bill M]

I've changed the battery so the problem has disappeared for now!

I don't think I explained myself clearly, weewx appeared to be showing the correct data, ie null or nothing, the default html pages showed NA for all outside readings when I suspect the ISS was down due to the battery failure. Data sent to WU, AWEKAS, PWS , etc also show blanks.

However the data sent to meteotemplate via the api interface always showed the last valic current value!

It's nothing to worry about since this hopefully only occurs every couple of years, I was more curious than anything!

Bill

I should have taken some screen shots but didn't sorry!