Thanks in advance and gratz for the good work
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Rain Rate
Rain Rate
Hello everyone,I have the National Geographic 265NE weather station,and after searching for a good software for my WS (since easy weather pretty sucks)i found cumulus.Its pretty pretty coool!!!I like it,even more than great davis weatherlink.So i downloaded some mins ago the 1.8.3 version of cumulus,and i faced a little problem with rain rate..The problem is that rain rate doesnt work properly,i mean that it was raining alot some mins ago,and the rain rate was as much as the last hours rain.For example lasthours rain:0.6,rain rate:0.6 and so on..Dont know alot about cumulus software,maybe im doing something wrong..Idownloaded the latest version 1.8.4 build 589 and reinstall cumulus.On station option i chose fineoffeset/watchon/etc and all the others,do i need to stick xap settings enabled? cuz actually i dont really know what this think does
,also is there any need to set something in easyweather interval box and easy weather.datfile?I also pressed the debuglog,i dont know what this thing does though.Its gonna rain now,and i hope rainfall rate works fine....If someone can help me with this..
Thanks in advance and gratz for the good work
Thanks in advance and gratz for the good work
- steve
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Re: Rain Rate
Yes, that's working as designed. The Fine Offset stations don't provide a rain rate so Cumulus has to work one out, which isn't straightforward. The simple algorithm used in 1.8.3 was to use the rain in the last hour as the rain rate, as a rough approximation. Version 1.8.4 has a slightly more sophisticated algorithm (it uses the rain in the last 5 minutes). I tried to do something clever like the Davis stations do (allowing the rate to fall away gradually), but I couldn't get it to work in all situations. The 5-minute method gives a reasonable indication of how heavily it's been raining.Morelo wrote:the rain rate was as much as the last hours rain.
It's for home automation integration.do i need to stick xap settings enabled? cuz actually i dont really know what this think does
No.also is there any need to set something in easyweather interval box and easy weather.datfile?
It's for debugging. As it says (in bold) in the help: Please do not turn this on unless requested, and do not leave it turned on once the required diagnostics have been obtained.I also pressed the debuglog,i dont know what this thing does though.
Steve
Re: Rain Rate
Its working!!Wow Thanks Steve its raining right now,rain rates working pretty good!Its getting back to zero pretty fast when the rain stops...cool great work steve
and thanks again
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Re: Rain Rate
Whaaa .......
Now I'm confused
I've been using rainrate (realtime.txt) as rain last hour.
So Isn't there an instance of 'Rain last hour' available in realtime.txt
.. if not could you make one (pretty please)
Then I can re-write my code (again)
Now I'm confused
I've been using rainrate (realtime.txt) as rain last hour.
So Isn't there an instance of 'Rain last hour' available in realtime.txt
.. if not could you make one (pretty please)
Then I can re-write my code (again)
......................Imagine, what you will KNOW tomorrow !
- steve
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Re: Rain Rate
Rain rate was only ever the same as rain last hour for Fine Offset stations. For other stations rain rate was the rain rate as supplied by the station. I hadn't noticed that there was no 'rain last hour' in realtime.txt, I'll remedy that.
Steve
Steve