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broadstairs wrote: ↑Wed 07 Sep 2022 2:19 pm how do I do it for the current day?

Stuart

Editing today's rain is a standard menu item (Interface: Edit menu -->> Today's rain), documented at https://cumuluswiki.org/a/Correcting_Ex ... l_rainfall

broadstairs wrote: ↑Wed 07 Sep 2022 12:05 pm On WD this has been a big issue in the past and I do not believe it is completely fixed now, however because WD can use the gateway rain data exclusively for Ecowitt gateways this issue has been eliminated - just correct the gateway totals and WD is correct!

But doing that way means your days may not add up to the month/year totals.

CMX just uses the days, and adds those up to derive month/year (plus any current day rainfall). So get your days right and everything else falls into place.

The year correction is used if you start using CMX part way through the year, or have missing days for other reasons (station failure for instance)

OK so I have now created some code which extracts the total rain each day from the monthly log files which is where the rain totals agree with what the gateway has recorded and now I'm comparing the day file data to these end of day totals from the monthly log files.

Now I am finding some days where there is no rain in the day file but there is in the monthly logs but I have also found that on at least one day so far the day file has greater rain for the day than recorded in the monthly log file. Now I do not believe that all of these errors are my fault from incorrect manipulation of the totals. Now the error where the rain is greater in the day file it was raining over midnight but the total for the following day agrees with what the month log shows.

Also as I run WD concurrently I can see the figures for these days in WD agree with the CMX month log so in my view the day file is wrong but how and I definitely did not manipulate the day file at this time?

All of this is beginning to get quite complicated

Stuart

broadstairs wrote: ↑Thu 08 Sep 2022 9:56 amAll of this is beginning to get quite complicated

Just put the WD daily figures in the dayfile (using the dayfile editor: Data logs -> Dayfile) for now. If you get a discrepancy in the future then start another topic and attach your MXdiags logs and we can work out what is going on.