Rain not recorded (WMR-100N)

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@Moskus post:1

This night we finally had some rain for the first time since I got the weather station, that’s about two weeks ago (which is very unusual for Stavanger, Norway). And neither the base or Weather Display recorded any rain. But HomeSeer with RFXcom receiver (reads values from wireless devices, such as Oregon Scientific devices) recorded 3 mm rain.

Have I forgot to do something? Do I have to “pair” (somehow) the base and the rain gauge? Or is it a WD issue?

Is the console showing no rain (i.e. 0.0), or no signal (i.e. —).
I don’t believe that this is a WD issue. If the base missed the event, then with your arrangement (i.e. WMR100 feeding data to WD) WD will inevitably miss it too.

I also have an RFXCOM Receiver. The RFXCOM has much more reliable reception than my WMR200 console. It seems most likely that your problem is with reception of the rain gauge by the console. Again referring to WMR200, I find that reception of the rain gauge by the console is the one most likely to occasionally fail (perhaps because the rain gauge is low down?). In my case that is not a problem, since it is RFXCOM collected data that I feed to WD (via Meteohub[1]).

Perhaps you need to consider repositioning either your rain gauge or the WMR100 console?

[1] How do I setup WD and Meteohub to work together? - Updated February 11th 2009.