Low Battery Alarm

[liddelljs]

Hi all,
Hoping someone might have some thoughts on a low battery alarm I have been receiving recently on my Ecowitt GW1001 system (also have a lightning sensor and moisture sensor). When I have received these alarms, the battery display on the Ecowitt dashboard (attached) is all showing normal so not sure what is triggering the alarm. I have confirmed that the Ecowitt dashboard is normal and the alarm is still triggered when I have checked (just to verify it isn't a short intermittent fault that I missed). I have also added #lowBatteryAlarm to a realtime.txt file and it is reporting true (ie value = 1).
Are there any potential issues with these alarms and webtag on the Ecowitt systems?

Cheers
Steve

[mcrossley]

Are there any potential issues with these alarms and webtag on the Ecowitt systems?

There is a fix for some battery alarm issues in the latest release - v3.12.0

If you still get issues with that version of MX, then switch on debug AND data logging for a while, then post your latest MXdiags file.

[liddelljs]

Thanks Mark. I've upgraded to v3.12.0. Will monitor and see how it goes.

Cheers
Steve

[liddelljs]

Hi Mark,
Started getting the low battery alarm again, MXDiags attached with debugging on. Looks like the culprit is the moisture sensor. Have also attached a chart of the battery voltage from the Ecowitt dashboard. I have set the alarm on the dashboard when the voltage falls below 1.5v and it all looks normal.

Cheers
Steve

[mcrossley]

Thanks, that gives me something to work on...

[mcrossley]

OK, fixed for the next release. The data being returned does not seem to match the Ecowitt documentation

[liddelljs]

Many thanks Mark. Not sure where you find the time for all this development - very much appreciated.

Cheers
Steve

[dazza1223]

hi ive just notice that non off my alarm trigger setting to 1 work no more?


<#TempChangeDownAlarm>
<#TempChangeUpAlarm>
<#LowPressAlarm>
<#HighRainTodayAlarm>
<#HighWindGustAlarm>
<#DataSpikeAlarm>
<#newrecord>

what ever i set them two in the Cumulus admin page set to 1 but i get a email saying ie if rain rate goes above 25mm

[mcrossley]

Sure, the email alarms still work.

Enable email logging, then look in the smtp.log file for any issues.

[dazza1223]

Yep still getting the email like this morning I got one from a rain rate but the the alarm tag remin 0 when it use to just send me the email the what ever tag was set the it will set to 1


But I will trun on the the loging

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[mcrossley]

Ah, right with you now, the alarm web tags do not show "1" when you think they should.

Are you checking the alarm tag value within the period defined by the Latch Hours period you have set?

[dazza1223]

yes there are all set and it use to work just fine but since some off the upgrad it stop setting them but i cant rember when it happen but i havent touch any thing since then and it just use to work just fine

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[mcrossley]

I just tested this with both HighTempAlarm and LowPressAlarm and both web tags are setting OK for me?

[dazza1223]

that is so odd ok sorry to bother you mark i know your busy and i will spin up a VM and test one on it own