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by watsonm
Sat 22 Jul 2023 8:23 am
Forum: Cumulus MX Development Suggestions
Topic: Lightning detector WH57 from Ecowitt
Replies: 13
Views: 2591

Re: Lightning detector WH57 from Ecowitt

Hans, The 79 second transmit frequency is only for the quiescent state. If there are several bursts of lightning the data gets tranmitted immediately Here is a dump from my sql database of lightning hits last year and as you can see they are all within a 79 second span. Timestamp 2022-09-05 19:00:03...
by watsonm
Fri 21 Jul 2023 7:44 am
Forum: Cumulus MX Development Suggestions
Topic: Lightning detector WH57 from Ecowitt
Replies: 13
Views: 2591

Re: Lightning detector WH57 from Ecowitt

The distance data is so sketchy at best. I've picked up lightning at 80 miles and picked up no lightning with an overhead storm. I've also only counted 5 different distances, so a min/max distance seems pointless. I agree, while monitoring blitzortung and my own WH31L at the same time, the distance...
by watsonm
Sat 01 Jul 2023 8:26 am
Forum: Fine Offset/EasyWeather
Topic: Maplin N96GY
Replies: 3
Views: 2230

Re: Maplin N96GY

Martin,
would be helpful to now where you are based.
by watsonm
Tue 23 May 2023 8:01 pm
Forum: Homebuilt
Topic: Homemade weather station question
Replies: 10
Views: 4961

Re: Homemade weather station question

I create my own data stream based on the Ecowitt data protocol and send it to: "http://CMX_IP:8998/station/ecowitt" I used to use easweather.dat format but have long since deleted any old files relating to this . You could try using the url above first .... However I found that the ECowitt...
by watsonm
Tue 23 May 2023 9:20 am
Forum: Fine Offset/EasyWeather
Topic: Solar Sensor
Replies: 19
Views: 9708

Re: Solar Sensor

RTL_433 needs to be configured for what data it is receiving. For example if the lightning receiver is running Protocol 190 must be set , if Soil moisture then protocol 142, for the Fine Offset wh1080 weather station proocol 32. These protocols are the defined data streams for these devices. Not sur...
by watsonm
Fri 05 May 2023 11:01 am
Forum: Fine Offset/EasyWeather
Topic: Solar Sensor
Replies: 19
Views: 9708

Re: Solar Sensor

I use pushover https://pushover.net/ to send a message from my linux box to my mobile phone. if you are detecting the spikes in a python script this is easy to setup. def msg_phone(message): conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("api.pushover.net:443") conn.request("POST", "/1/...
by watsonm
Mon 13 Feb 2023 1:18 pm
Forum: General
Topic: AIr Quality - Road Surfacing!
Replies: 2
Views: 2226

Re: AIr Quality - Road Surfacing!

Might have to clean the weather sensor after it's all o over.. :mrgreen:
by watsonm
Mon 13 Feb 2023 11:22 am
Forum: General
Topic: AIr Quality - Road Surfacing!
Replies: 2
Views: 2226

AIr Quality - Road Surfacing!

I live on a relatively new housing estate and the road in front is about to be surfaced and the "heavy duty kit" has arrived and started it's process. My sensor (PMS5003) is at the back of the house on the garage and the work is being done at the front. None the less this is the AIr Qualit...
by watsonm
Fri 03 Feb 2023 7:52 pm
Forum: Cumulusutils
Topic: Alarm
Replies: 2
Views: 464

Re: Alarm

Hans,
OK thanks...
Didn't want to repeat any work!

Sorted by reading the date stamp in realtime.txt every 15 minutes from another pi and ensuring it is different ..... :mrgreen:
by watsonm
Fri 03 Feb 2023 6:48 pm
Forum: Cumulusutils
Topic: Alarm
Replies: 2
Views: 464

Alarm

Hans, I presume you monitor within utils when the last data set was generated by CMX so that the Status led is red green or flashing red. Is there anywhere that this status can be read as occasionally my Pi locks up (and so does not TX an Alarm). It is only sometime later that I notice and would lik...
by watsonm
Tue 31 Jan 2023 1:48 pm
Forum: Cumulus MX Current (releases since b3043)
Topic: email alarm options?
Replies: 6
Views: 380

Re: email alarm options?

I also use and recommend pushover for sending data to my mobile. Great value for money...
Been using it for several years for cmx and my aeroplane tracker pi.

(I have no contact with pushover except as a user)
by watsonm
Tue 24 Jan 2023 8:59 pm
Forum: Cumulus MX Current (releases since b3043)
Topic: Adding Lightning data - hybrid Cumulusmx setup
Replies: 9
Views: 603

Re: Adding Lightning data - hybrid Cumulusmx setup

Ian, Well done... I am using the HIVEMQ broker so to get the rtl433 data I use the following in my rtl433.service file. ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/rtl_433 -d :00000100 -p 15 -C si -F "mqtt://192.168.1.15:1883,user=xxxxxn,pass=xxxxxxxx, retain=0" -d is the device id code ( had to change it as...
by watsonm
Mon 23 Jan 2023 10:31 am
Forum: General
Topic: Wunderground crocked?
Replies: 57
Views: 21255

Re: Wunderground crocked?

What I find puzzling is that a couple of "local to me" stations seem to be working fine!!!
by watsonm
Mon 23 Jan 2023 10:05 am
Forum: General
Topic: Wunderground crocked?
Replies: 57
Views: 21255

Re: Wunderground crocked?

Overnight it seemed to take one of my postings every hour according to today's weather direction page. CMX is configured for every 5 minutes!
by watsonm
Sun 22 Jan 2023 3:17 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Wunderground crocked?
Replies: 57
Views: 21255

Re: Wunderground crocked?

I'm getting a selection of erors:

2023-01-22 15:04:53.740 Wunderground: Response = BadGateway:
2023-01-22 14:53:15.695 Wunderground: Response = GatewayTimeout:
2023-01-22 15:07:20.702 Wunderground: Response = ServiceUnavailable:


and occasionally it works!! :groan: