Cumulus Support

Hi Steve How does Davis figure storm rain?
thanks Beau

According to the manual:

Rain Storm displays the rain total of the last rain event. It takes two tips of the rain bucket to begin a storm event and 24 hours without rain to end a storm event.

You can download Davis documents, including instruction manuals, here: http://www.davisnet.com/support/weather ... sp?dtype=1

Hi Steve,
Do you have a time frame on when 'Storm Total' (as I have a Davis station and got use to it with their weatherlink app) will be added to Cumulus?
Thank you as always!
Bridge

No, sorry, I don't have a time frame or forecast for anything.

I took a break from writing the new version of Cumulus to add 'storm rain' to the current version, which I've just uploaded.

Dear Steve,
WOW, what a really wonderful and appreciated surprise!!
It was a surprise when I switched over from Davis' weatherlink to Cumulus to hear from my neighbors how they missed this specific piece of data. And now it is back. You just thrilled my 'neighborhood nation'.

Bridge

In the Saratoga environment these stormrain variables are known as $vpstormrain and $vpstormrainstart.
Have a utility that I have been using for some time but was not distributed as it was rather complicated to set up.

Will publish the details for the changes required to CUtagsT.txt & CU-defs.php (for Saratoga), and to davconfcstT.txt (for Cumulus Davis Console scripts) shortly to enable the stormrain functionality already built into the Davis console scripts.

Also the Saratoga ajax-dashboard.php should start displaying this automatically after making the above changes.

See updates in the davcon console script threads for details of the changes required.

https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=10598 for the Saratoga templates (ajax-dashboard and/or davis davcon console scripts)
and
https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=10597 for the Cumulus HTML standard website (if using the davis davcon console script).

Hi Steve,

I see the 'last 24 hour' rain fall on the Cumulus page on my host PC. How can that now be added to the Cumulus website page?
P.S. Please tell me if this is a dumb question

Bridge

Add the <#r24hour> web tag to your page - see http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/a/Webtags for a full list of the web tags you can use.

How you add the tag depends on what web pages you're using. If you're using the standard Cumulus pages, see http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/a/Customised_templates

Thank you sir!

I apologize if this should be very obvious and I am just being dense. I see from above that 'storm rain' has been added to Cumulus. I'm using v1.9.4 and I don't see a value for that in any of the logs (I am currently uploading realtime, dayfile, monthly, and extra). I see 'todayRainSoFar' but I am looking for the 'storm rain' (calculated as running total until 24 hours with no rain). Would you be able to point me in the direction of where I can find this data point?

Thanks,

Brandon

It doesn't appear in the logs. You can display the current value on the main screen, and there are web tags for use on a web page. For details, see the release announcement for the build where I added it (1090), about 5 or 6 posts down in the 1.9.4 announcement thread: https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10777

Thank you very much! I haven't up until this point worked with the tags at all, just the logs, but this http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/a/Php_webtags is awesome. It will give me exactly what I need in regard to the storm rain, as well as a whole lot more. Thanks again.

Brandon

Brandon wrote: I haven't up until this point worked with the tags at all, just the logs, but this http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/a/Php_webtags is awesome. It will give me exactly what I need in regard to the storm rain, as well as a whole lot more.

I suspect the file linked to from that page is considerably out of date and won't have the storm rain web tags in it. You could add them yourself, of course, or there may be a more up to date version somewhere.