Rain Not Registering as Hundredths

[sperry russ]

My newly installed CumuluxMX with Davis Pro 2 is not registering hundredths of rain. It will only register tenths of an inch. I looked at the monthly log file and see that it is only showing 0.0. In my previous Cumulus 1 log files it registered as 0.00. When I ran the configwizard when setting it up I set the station as inches. I checked the Cumulus.ini and it showed the setting as VPrainGaugeType=-1 (a minus in front of it). I changed it to VPrainGaugeType=1. Removing the minus made no difference.

Is this a limitation of CumulusMX? What can I do to set it to hundredths of an inch? I have searched the Forum and Wiki and can find no answer to this.

[mcrossley]

Hmm, it should have used hundredths by default for an inches Davis rain gauge, I'll look into that.

But you can change it manually under Station Settings > General Settings > Units > Advanced Options

[sperry russ]

Thanks. I was wracking my brain on this. I don't think Cumulus 1 had a setting for changing the decimal places. Did it?

Earlier today before I got your answer I was testing it by pouring water into my rain gauge. I got an email notification telling me there was a spike. I noticed on it that it said mm. That gave me a clue but I wasn't sure what was going on because as I said earlier I had everything set to inches.

[sfws]

I don't think Cumulus 1 had a setting for changing the decimal places.

True.

https://cumuluswiki.org/a/Cumulus.ini#T ... g_Settings has a column in the tables to show which settings were introduced in legacy (Cumulus 1) software and which are new in MX.

[sperry russ]

Yes, there is a lot of new things in CumulusMX. I have did extensive reading but there is a lot. The Wiki is kind of scattered and unorganized in places but that is usually the way it is with volunteer contributions.

Thanks.

[mcrossley]

I have fixed the set-up wizard in the next release so that it sets the decimal defaults appropriately for the selected units.

[sperry russ]

Thanks. Glad I found that out.