Rain Display Errors

[glennpm]

Hi,

I have a reporting problem with my rain totals.

These values are correct in "today/yesterday"

"Rainfall

Today 0.27 in

Yesterday 0.59 in"

- rainfall counter is also correct in data logs

The following are only reporting yesterday's rain

[steve]

What happens if you restart MX? Are there any messages in the latest diags file about errors in dayfile.txt?

[glennpm]

Hi Steve,

There is an error in my dayfile.txt but I can't see it. The first part of this file I input some values to grab monthly rain and alltime values.

2017-01-04 13:06:51.651 Midnight rain found in the following entry:
2017-01-04 13:06:51.651 04/01/17,00:00,34.3,97,33.5,7.0,19.0,82,0.00,0.00,29.574,0.59,65.3,38,9.0,28.2,34.3,0.0,0,0.000,0.000,27.0,0,0.0,90,0.00,0.00
2017-01-04 13:06:51.654 Setting raintoday from logfile = 0.28
2017-01-04 13:06:51.654 Calculating rain counter = 0.87
2017-01-04 13:06:51.654 Midnight rain found = 0.59
2017-01-04 13:06:51.657 Getting rain totals, rain season start = 1
2017-01-04 13:06:51.657 Today = 04/01/17
2017-01-04 13:06:51.659 GetRainfallTotals: Error on line 1 of dayfile.txt: Input string was not in a correct format.
2017-01-04 13:06:51.659 Rainthismonth from dayfile.txt: 0
2017-01-04 13:06:51.659 Rainthisyear from dayfile.txt: 0

[steve]

Lines 1-6:

2017-01-04 18_19_20-C__Users_steve_Downloads_dayfile (1).txt - Notepad++.png

Lines 282-283:

2017-01-04 18_20_10-C__Users_steve_Downloads_dayfile (1).txt - Notepad++.png

You can't in general have incomplete data in dayfile.txt. You might get away with it if you at least include the daily rain total (even if it's zero). The last two lines don't even have dates on them.

[glennpm]

Thanks Steve!

[steve]

Note also that the date formats have to be dd/mm/yy

[glennpm]

Thanks for the followup Steve.

I noticed the date format error as I was fixing things. The last two bad lines were due to me checking the SUM of column O for rain and then forgetting to take the formula out. This prevented new additions to the dayfile. I put zeros in where required and now all is good with no errors.

Thanks for your help.

Glenn