Can't tell if I'm posting soilTemp1, soilMoist1 and leafWet1 to WU

[Duane Kerzic]

I'm new to this.

I have those extra sensors on a Davis Vantage Pro2 station w/ Weather Envoy. I found how to add them to the seasons skin for my personal webpage. https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KPASTROU8?cm_ven=localwx_pwsdash

But I don't see them on my WU station page. I moved from VWS at the beginning of this year and just spending some time getting to learn more about weewx.

Is there a way for me to see what's in the data stream?

Thanks so much.

dk

[Duane Kerzic]

I set debug =1 it shows i'm posting to WU

Oct  3 12:56:23 weewx weewx[2744] INFO weewx.restx: Wunderground-RF: Published record 2020-10-03 12:56:24 EDT (1601744184)

Is there a way to see that record? Can I print it to a text file or something like that so I know what's in it?

[gjr80]

Hi,

Yes, try setting debug = 2 then restarting WeeWX. The detail you seek should then appear in the log for each post to WU.

Gary

[Duane Kerzic]

Thanks Gary. I'll let you know how it works out.

Have a nice day.

[Duane Kerzic]

Gary, Worked. I was going to try that but didn't know enough yet.

At least I know the problem is at Wunderground now. So nothing for me to do other than wait.

Thanks so much for your assistance.

baromin=30.091&

dateutc=2020-10-03%2018%3A31%3A18&

dailyrainin=0.00&

dewptf=37.2&

rainin=0.00&

leafwetness=000&

humidity=037&

tempf=64.0&

solarradiation=642.00&

realtime=1&

rtfreq=2.5&

soilmoisture=000&

soiltempf=45.0&

UV=3.30&

winddir=092&

windgustmph=1.0&

windspeedmph=1.0&

windgustdir=045

[gjr80]

Yes, WU problems are not uncommon.

Gary

[quantum.m...@googlemail.com]

Following on from this, does the WeeWx Restx send Soil Temp and Moisture to UK WOW and AWEKAS? Looking at the code, I am not sure, and it certainly isn't appearing at either, for me on DVP2 with Soil/Moisture Station - all showing on WLL, but that's a different story.

FWIW - it doesn't show for me either on WU, but I too can see the data going to WU, but as you say Gary, WU problems are not uncommon. Would have been nice to see it on WOW and AWEKAS etc.

It's really not serious, but as the topic has been raised, I thought I would ask?

[gjr80]

Setting debug = 2 will show the same level of detail for posts to WOW and AWEKAS so you can see exactly what is being posted. As it turns out the WOW and AWEKAS uploaders don’t post soil temperature, soil moisture or leaf wetness to WOW or AWEKAS. I don’t use either of those services so I am unaware whether they accept those extra obs, though looking at the AWEKAS uploader I see a comment in the uploader code that position 21 is soil temperature. Not sure if that is correct or not or if it is why soil temperature is not uploaded. I will look into that but if there is any evidence that WOW accepts these extra obs please let us know.

Gary

[quantum.m...@googlemail.com]

Thank you for this. Looking at WOW, it does appear they do accept all the data: https://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/support/dataformats

Looking at the WOW map there are many stations reporting Soil Moisture.

Thanks for 'kicking me' into action - outputs (redacted) for PWS, AWEKAS, WOW, WeatherCloud:

PWS Wx

Ambient: url: http://www.pwsweather.com/pwsupdate/pwsupdate.php?action=updateraw&ID=XXX&PASSWORD=XXX&softwaretype=weewx-4.1.1&baromin=29.386&dateutc=2020-10-05%2007%3A00%3A00&dailyrainin=0.00&dewptf=49.1&rainin=0.00&leafwetness=002&humidity=095&tempf=50.5&solarradiation=30.00&soilmoisture=003&soiltempf=53.0&soiltemp2f=48.0&soiltemp3f=50.0&UV=0.00&winddir=202&windgustmph=4.0&windspeedmph=1.0

AWEKAS

url: http://data.awekas.at/eingabe_pruefung.php?val=XXX;XXX;05.10.2020;07:00;10.3;95;995.124;0.00;1.6;202;;;;de;;6.4;30.00;0.00;;;;0.00;weewx_4.1.1;xxx,xxx

WOW

url: http://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/automaticreading?action=updateraw&siteid=xxx&siteAuthenticationKey=XXX&softwaretype=weewx-4.1.1&dateutc=2020-10-05+07%3A00%3A00&baromin=29.386&tempf=50.5&humidity=95&windspeedmph=1&winddir=202&windgustmph=4&windgustdir=248&dewptf=49.1&rainin=0.00&dailyrainin=0.00

WeatherCloud

http://api.weathercloud.net/v01/set?ver=4.1.1&type=251&wid=xxx&key=XXX&time=0700&date=20201005&temp=103&hum=95&wdir=202&wspd=4&bar=9951&rain=0&rainrate=0&tempin=236&humin=45&uvi=0&solarrad=300&et=0&chill=103&heat=103&dew=95&battery=455&temp01=111&temp04=117&temp05=89&temp06=117&temp07=89&temp08=100&leafwet01=2&soilmoist01=3&wspdhi=18&wspdavg=4&wdiravg=169&heatin=236&dewin=109&battery01=1

Interestingly WeatherCloud is receiving, but you guessed it, it's not showing - I'll email them, same with PWS.

However, I am thinking this is a whole can of worms, by virtue of the many different possible configurations Soil/Temp/Leaf etc., that really doesn't warrant wasting yours or Tom's time.

Bottom line to me, WeeWx does an incredible job, merging hundreds of different Weather Station types of kit, with all manner of different outputs - it is simply brilliant, and IMHO adding support for different Soil / Leaf combinations is not really what WeeWx is about.

I'll see if I get a response back from either of the two sites it is going to, and let you know.

Once again, many thanks....

[quantum.m...@googlemail.com]

Just a quick update - I received quick responses back, and as suspected, they both receive the data, but report they do not display the data. This makes sense to me, as the various combinations of Soil Moisture / Temp / Leaf would make it a nightmare to configure.

So from my perspective, as stated before, WeeWx does an incredible job with a myriad of different devices to allow weather to displayed in a variety of incredible ways. IMHO I do not think that this warrants any further work, as the site providers will not support it anyway.

Many, many thanks Gary, and of course Tom Keffer, for a brilliant suite of software that is WeeWx!

[Duane Kerzic]

I have to agree. This is much better than what I was using. Great job on putting this together and making it easy to use.

[gjr80]

Notwithstanding, it’s a fairly easy process to update the uploaders so I will go ahead and update them, perhaps with a little less urgency though. At least we will be set when they do decide to display the data.

Gary