The rainfall is totally out of order

[benito]

The rainfall is totally out of order. After installing in February it said more than 15000 mm rain.
Then when we got into March it started correct for this month. The total for this month until today. But now it says more than 52000 mm this month, and last hour 851, 1 mm
My weather page is at:

http://www.bheltborg.dk/mitvejr/index.htm

What is wrong?
benito

[steve]

What is wrong?

It's a Fine Offset

If you would like me to take a look, please zip up the diags folder and attach it.

[benito]

I understand that a Fine Offset station is difficult . But before I used "Weather Display". and I did not have that problem. So it should be a solvable problem.
Never the less I like Cumulus. So I hope I will stay that way.
Found the tojpics in FAQ and reset mu data and changed in spike removal. Hope I now is on right track.

Thanks for the help

Benito

[steve]

Spike removal won't have any effect on rain totals.

Please zip up the diags folder and attach it.

[benito]

Enclosed the diags zipped

Benito

[steve]

You have selected the wrong station type, so Cumulus is not able to interpret the logger data correctly; it is expecting the data format for a station with solar sensors:

13-03-2014 11:39:45.130 : Station type: Fine Offset with Solar

Your station does not have solar sensors. You have a WH1080, so the correct choice is clearly the one which says "Fine Offset (WH1080 etc)".

[hills]

Oh pooh! I've selected that with a WH2081 as it has a solar panel, but after installing it I realised that's only for charging the transmitter and not recording solar activity.

Am I likely to have the same issue and if so can/should I change it back now or could that corrupt my data? So far I've not had any strange spikes at all other than on inside humidity which the spike removal has looked after.

[steve]

Oh pooh! I've selected that with a WH2081 as it has a solar panel, but after installing it I realised that's only for charging the transmitter and not recording solar activity.

Yes, indeed, as the help says: "If you have a WH3080 or WH3081 station, or any other Fine Offset station which has UV and Solar Sensors, you must select 'Fine Offset with UV/Light sensor'. Note that there are some Fine Offset stations which have a solar charger for the batteries; this is not the same as having solar and UV sensors. If your station has a solar charger but does not have solar and UV sensors, use the 'normal' Fine Offset setting, not the 'Fine Offset with UV/Light sensor' setting."

Am I likely to have the same issue and if so can/should I change it back now or could that corrupt my data? So far I've not had any strange spikes at all other than on inside humidity which the spike removal has looked after.

Yes, you should definitely change it. If you run Cumulus 24/7 you will have got away with it for the most part as it only affects logger data at start up. The safest way to change is to stop Cumulus and edit cumulus.ini rather than changing it in 'mid-flight'. Look for the 'Type=' setting in the [Station] section. You'll have 7 there, change it to 5 and start Cumulus again.

[hills]

Excellent thanks Steve, That worked perfectly!

[benito]

Hi
As You see in the text on the weatherpage my station is a: Rosenborg 68700/WH1080. So how the marking has changed i cannot tell.
How do i change rain today from 2521,5 mm to 0 mm

[steve]

How do i change rain today from 2521,5 mm to 0 mm

See the FAQ: http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/a/FAQ#My_sta ... _figure.29

But you may want to consider deleting your data and start again, as it is likely that you will have a lot of incorrect data due to selecting the wrong station type.

[benito]

I did restart 10th this month. I hope that is OK and thanks for the help. You Refer to invented rain which I did use.

Hi
https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/posting.php ... =4&t=11652#