On the Ambient the year-to-date rain sometimes falls behind and does not update itself on the receipt of subsequent packets. It is set for rain from the array. I speculate that while today and month rain are from the station, it may manually add the ytd. That means a missed array packet is not being added to the total. I know that the raw ambient data contains the updated ytd total and its not being updated from that. I am not seeing that on the Ecowitt, which either means its doing it differently or the receiver is not missing the packet.
I also note that on the ‘last 7 days’ rain custom tag todays rain does not dynamically add to the total on the Ambient, but does on the Ecowitt. On the Ambient it has to become ‘yesterday’s rain’ before it gets added.
Also, I note that the sunrise/set and moonrise/set labels on the graph are erratic and appear and disappear. The markers are there, its just the labels.
Finally, the little shadows i had on the screen shot of the console on my web page have reappeared. See http://personalpages.tds.net/~jsaltman/ and scroll down to the screen shot. The custom tags have a ‘shadow’ underneath that actually looks like a little bit of the top of the character. Its on the extra temps and lightning stuff.
Thanks for all you do. None of these are exactly mission critical type things.
The little shadows i had on the screen shot of the console on my web page have reappeared. See http://personalpages.tds.net/~jsaltman/ and scroll down to the screen shot. The custom tags have a ‘shadow’ underneath that actually looks like a little bit of the top of the character. Its on the extra temps and lightning stuff.
On the first of each month, it reads the “current month” rain to be zero before it increments the “rain to date” screen and the ‘Detailed Rain Data’ such that i.e. on the 1st of each month i have to go reset the preceding month total rain back into that month. On the first of Feb it changed January rain to 0 and i have to, every month, find the preceding month’s total and put it back in. Otherwise by the end of the year, the total will be 0.
the sunrise/set markers etc not alway being there is some change that has occured with graphing component new version I had to use for the new compiler version I updated to
(i made no change to my code)
I do not know why its behaving like that
(this has been explained in other threads)
and re the rain with the ambient, is the time on the weather station the same as the pc? how is that updated? the issue will be that the stations month rain total is going to zero before WD can use that last total for storing WDs last month rain total I suggest… I should be able to program a work around , around that
The sunrise/set stuff isn’t really a problem, i was just making note of it. the underlines on the screen cap are the webpage are attached. This is the autoupload of WD data to my website.
The monthly rate reset happens both on the Ambient and the Ecowitt, Ambient is via the api and has ‘Use Station Rain Total’ set.
Ah! I did not realize that was a ‘me’ specific file and continued updating as new downloads came along. I’ll have to look back and see if i can find that file.
I am running this test version on the Ecowitt machine (runs 24/7) and yesterday is not updating correctly. The release version running on the Ambient api, not 24/7 turns off overnight, is also not updating yesterday either. Both machines have rain to date last year wrong (at 39.09 inches, about 25 inches is correct, boy was it rainy last year). Also average rain to date is saying 215 inches, way wrong. I’ll still leave the test version running through the end of the month on the Ecowitt machine.
The web page has lost its lil underlines on it (being fed by the Ecowitt test file) thank you.
Its the first of the month and neither the Ecowitt machine (running this test version) nor the Ambient machine (running the current release) got February rain right. On the 1st of March, February now reads 0 and i have re-enter the total Feb. See attached. Please also note “rain to date last year” and “Average rain to date this time” in the Rain to Date window. In the Detailed Rain Chart, the day-by-day is correct, but the total is zeroed.
WD rain totals for the current month will not come correct until AFTER the first day of the month. The rule I live by is to NOT mess with WD on the 1st of the month…has served me well for many years.
Well, now its next month and i waited until after the 1st of the month has passed. Neither the Ambient nor Ecowitt did last month correctly. Rain totals for March were still 0, even though the day by day in the Detailed Rain Data were actually correct. “Yesterday” rain is updated erratically, sometimes it updates, sometimes not. I haven’t found any factor to predict. On the Rain to Date screen “rain to date this time last year” and “average rain to date” are way off.
its likely to be a timing issue in getting the data from the ‘cloud’ for the rain totals
i.e so when WD goes to store away what the current month total is at the end of the month
if that has already been set to zero by the cloud data, then that is what gets stored away
(and a similar problem for yesterday rain)
Ambientdata.txt and ambientdatahistory.txt both have date/time data that could be looked at to ascertain the midnight/date resets, but i don’t know if ecowitt live network data contains a time stamp. Since the Ecowitt data is live network data every few seconds, the system clock ought to be adequate to notice the midnight reset or monthly roll over. Just thinking out loud…
Ah! I do understand, i used to do such programming but it was about 20 years ago and i have no interest in resuming. I am grateful and admire the people who still do.
i am thinking I can use the WD logfile
as that store the month and year rain totals
email me your ambient weather net details
and so I can hook up to your cloud data
but then I will spoof a change in month change and see what I can
the issue with the month rain total should be fixed in the latest build 126
I just now to work on the yesterday rain issue
(both for when you have set to use the console rain total option)
