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February 2024 errors with NOAA and rainfall generation
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February 2024 errors with NOAA and rainfall generation
It's not been a good month for Cumulus MX as something is corrupting my data files and I'm unable to fix. I have reproduced my NOAA report for this month that isn't updating at all. I've also reproduced my daily rainfall tables that has a recurring error that is giving spurious large rainfall on almost a daily basis. my Weatherlink total rainfall to date is 74.8mm.
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Re: February 2024 errors with NOAA and rainfall generation
If you zip up and post your MXdiags log files then somebody can take a look at what's occurring.
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Re: February 2024 errors with NOAA and rainfall generation
Thanks Freddie. I'll do that!
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Re: February 2024 errors with NOAA and rainfall generation
Here's my latest MXdiag: Hope someone can see my problems. For me it's all a bit confusing to say the least!
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Re: February 2024 errors with NOAA and rainfall generation
Your dayfile.txt has an error that might be the reason for report generation to fail.
If that particular line seems to be ok, check if there are some corrupted lines before that. If you can’t see anything obvious, you could post the file here also.
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Error at line 1256 of data\dayfile.txt : Input string was not in a correct format.
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Re: February 2024 errors with NOAA and rainfall generation
Thanks. It's always difficult to see what's right and wrong for me!
Here's the file in question . Hope it's obvious.
Here's the file in question . Hope it's obvious.
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Re: February 2024 errors with NOAA and rainfall generation
I'm not sure if this is the problem and how it may happened but you can try to edit this entry or use this attached already modified dayfile
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01/02/24,38,247,23:20,4.7,00:50,7.9,00:00,1025.36,19:30,1031.80,10:17,0.0,00:00,0.6
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Hardware: Raspberry pi zero W
Weather station: Rosenborg 68750 (wh1090 clone).
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Re: February 2024 errors with NOAA and rainfall generation
Thanks Sami
I deleted the file and replaced it with your corrected file and hey it works! However, not the end of the story since the gigantic rainfall totals are still amiss and continuing, but at least I can see the blatant errors in the two location of "daily rain" and on the "Noaa report" I like the way you identified the issue. How did you find the error in the dayfile?
Much appreciated.
https://leedsweathercentre.co.uk/noaareports.php
I deleted the file and replaced it with your corrected file and hey it works! However, not the end of the story since the gigantic rainfall totals are still amiss and continuing, but at least I can see the blatant errors in the two location of "daily rain" and on the "Noaa report" I like the way you identified the issue. How did you find the error in the dayfile?
Much appreciated.
https://leedsweathercentre.co.uk/noaareports.php
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Re: February 2024 errors with NOAA and rainfall generation
Sorry I see It's not Sami that identified. Thanks for the file regardless!
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Re: February 2024 errors with NOAA and rainfall generation
Not to take credit of @yamen’s work… But when using a proper editor (Notepad++ on the screenshot) you can see the line numbers. Then you have just to look at the error specified line to see visually what is wrong. The data in your case is comma separated, and with decimal dots, so it is very obvious that a value should not have two dots. It usually helps to spot the differences when comparing with the line above and below. This was very strange error itself, usually the whole line is just garbage if there is corruption.brookr wrote: ↑Mon 26 Feb 2024 10:00 am I deleted the file and replaced it with your corrected file and hey it works! However, not the end of the story since the gigantic rainfall totals are still amiss and continuing, but at least I can see the blatant errors in the two location of "daily rain" and on the "Noaa report" I like the way you identified the issue. How did you find the error in the dayfile?
If you are still having problems with improper rainfall figures, you might want to first check your station settings that the rain correction factor and measuring unit is correctly set. If necessary, you may want to open a new thread for that problem. It may need some debug logging by Mark that developes Cumulus code.
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Re: February 2024 errors with NOAA and rainfall generation
Thanks
No errors with Weatherlink data, or correction factors. It's definitely Cumulus software
No errors with Weatherlink data, or correction factors. It's definitely Cumulus software
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Re: February 2024 errors with NOAA and rainfall generation
Hi
I've now managed to correct the DAy rainfall editing the dayfile log, but once again NOAA rainfall is being fed from another file that is causing the program to produce huge rainfall totals on a daily basis. How can I correct this ongoing problem without causing any further anomalies. This is my only criticism of CumulusMX. Error correcting is a nightmare!
I've now managed to correct the DAy rainfall editing the dayfile log, but once again NOAA rainfall is being fed from another file that is causing the program to produce huge rainfall totals on a daily basis. How can I correct this ongoing problem without causing any further anomalies. This is my only criticism of CumulusMX. Error correcting is a nightmare!
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Re: February 2024 errors with NOAA and rainfall generation
Dayfile corrections work for this report
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Re: February 2024 errors with NOAA and rainfall generation
Have you tried to regenerate the NOAA report? (Button at top of report page)
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Re: February 2024 errors with NOAA and rainfall generation
The report is generated from data in the dayfile.
If you have regenerated the report and still have the problem; how did you edit the dayfile? Using the built-in editor, or manually?
If you have regenerated the report and still have the problem; how did you edit the dayfile? Using the built-in editor, or manually?