Rain.. (b 1003)

[Tonky]

Hi Steve,

There is something wrong here.
Pic. 2 and 3.

[steve]

Yes, it looks like the total rain didn't reset at midnight, so it's continuing to add today's rain on to yesterday's. I assume it's showing 12.4 mm for today's total? Please zip up the diags folder and attach it.

Edit: Actually, since the graph is correct, I guess today's total is actually correct? Odd.

Another Edit: Actually, the total is correct, it's just that it's continuing to update the timestamp. I'll wake up shortly, another coffee is on it's way.

[Tonky]

Yes, the graph is correct, not the record screen date, it has to be 14-7

[steve]

It's a bug in the WMR200 code which processes rain from the logger - it uses the current time instead of the logger time. The timestamp shown is the time you started Cumulus this morning; it downloaded the logger data, performed the midnight rollover, and discovered the new all-time record. I'll fix it in the next build.

[Tonky]

Yes it’s the time I started Cumulus.
And thanks.

Edit.

The first pic has no total rain for yesterday, is that correct?

[steve]

The first pic has no total rain for yesterday, is that correct?

That display is for yesterday's highs and lows, not all-time highs and lows that just happened to have occurred yesterday. In general, yesterday's total is just yesterday's total, not necessarily a record high total.

[Tonky]

It would be nice to have yesterday’s total rain as well, record or no record.

[steve]

It would be nice to have yesterday’s total rain as well, record or no record.

Well, then that display wouldn't be 'yesterday's highs and lows'. And it would duplicate information from the main screen.

[Tonky]

You have a point there; it’s the way you look at it.
And I looked at it the wrong way.

[steve]

If it weren't already displayed on the main screen, then I would agree that it could go on there (just to have somewhere to display it) and not look out of place.

[Tonky]

I don’t have Cumulus running at the moment so I can’t look at it.
But isn’t everything on that screen already in the main screen?

[steve]

But isn’t everything on that screen already in the main screen?

No, yesterday's 'Highest hourly rain' isn't. But in any case, I didn't consider what was already available elsewhere when creating these screens. I'm not saying that things that appear elsewhere shouldn't be on that screen. I put the things on that screen which logically belonged there - highs and lows.

The point is that these screens (today's/yesterday's/this month's etc highs and lows), are relatively recent, and the code is standardised to a great extent; the intention is that things which don't make sense on a particular screen aren't included - e.g. highest daily rainfall doesn't appear on today's and yesterday's screens. That's effectively what putting yesterday's total on yesterday's screen would be - the highest daily total for a one day period.

I've tried to be logical in what I include on them (perhaps too logical): The highs and lows for a day have the highest hourly rainfall; the highs and lows for a month have the highest hourly and daily totals, and the highs and lows for a year have the highest hourly, daily, and monthly totals. The all-time records screen should really have highest annual total, but it doesn't.

I'm not saying it would be completely wrong to have yesterday's total on a page which is really for yesterday's highs and lows. It's the highest point that the rain gauge got to on that day. But if the rain page is going to have the total for that day on it, then the wind page should have the total wind run, and other figures which aren't highs and lows should also be on there. And then it's no longer a highs and lows display.

[Tonky]

It’s not that I want to have it there, but when I looked at the different screens to see if anything else went wrong I missed it there, that’s all.
It would make sense to me, but I understand you reasoning why it’s not there.
So thanks for your explanation.