WeatherFlow - Sky Rain Reading Problems

I just installed. I’m still not seeing any rain being shown in WD through UDP even though Smart Hub is showing rain. Below is a picture. Shows rain_debug. Not sure what that is.


The rain numbers are only broadcast once per minute.

still no joy Brian. WD reported no rain over night. I have sky connected to Weather Underground through WD and directly to the hub. The direct to hub version shows 0.1" since midnight. The WD connected sky shows 0". Is there a way to help narrow this down? Do you save the raw UDP data in a log file I can examine? I previously had WD connected to my WXT520 and I wonder if there are some residual registry settings not getting cleared when I changed weather stations. Thanks for any pointers. -joe

Sky connected directly to WU through HUB
https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KORHOODR38#history

Sky connected to WU through WD
https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KORHOODR9#history

I have tested here and its working
for rain data
from my HUB (with the latest HUB firmware…what firmware do you have?)
the rain data should be in the obs_sky data
which gets saved to a file called
weatherflowobs.txt
maybe post that file here

Hub is version 30, Sky is rev 26, Terrace is 17. Attaching file from two different times. It is raining right now, but still not showing any rain on WD.

First file update
{“serial_number”:“SK-00005971”,“type”:“obs_sky”,“hub_sn”:“HB-00001940”,“obs”:[[1517004844,null,0.00,0.015,1.12,1.49,2.19,272,2.79,1,105,null]],“firmware_revision”:26}

Second file update
{“serial_number”:“SK-00005971”,“type”:“obs_sky”,“hub_sn”:“HB-00001940”,“obs”:[[1517005083,null,0.00,0.011,0.89,1.62,2.19,292,2.79,1,78,null]],“firmware_revision”:26}

Third file update
{“serial_number”:“SK-00005971”,“type”:“obs_sky”,“hub_sn”:“HB-00001940”,“obs”:[[1517005263,null,0.00,0.016,1.52,2.43,3.53,258,2.79,1,72,null]],“firmware_revision”:26}


weatherflowobs.txt (168 Bytes)

Your UDP stream is showing rain, it is the 4th set in the data stream. Might be some other setting in WD that is blocking that

[[1517004844,null,0.00,0.015,1.12,1.49,2.19,272,2.79,1,105,null]],“firmware_revision”:26}

The other issue I see is that your battery is getting very low, it should be up around 3.4v

[[1517004844,null,0.00,0.015,1.12,1.49,2.19,272,2.79,1,105,null]],“firmware_revision”:26}

If you want to see how to read the data stream, go to https://weatherflow.github.io/SmartWeather/api/udp/v30/

Any ideas on what settings may prevent WD from using Sky’s precip, but still use wind, temp, & pressure?

We uses the last rain data reading
For some reason yours says null
What I could do is if that is the case then use the rain data at the start

Strange yours reports rain differently. Are you using both Air and Sky on the same hub? I wonder if both are getting updated together or at different times and sometimes shows null data for sky. Happy to try any updates. -joe

try this update
http://www.weather-display.com/downloadfiles/cronweatherflow.zip
vers 2.4

I just installed updated file and rebooted, but of course it just stopped raining . I’ll monitor overnight. You can see if any rain does get reported on WU at https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KORHOODR9#history

Thanks!

What you should do is join the WeatherFlow forums at https://community.weatherflow.com

Post the UDP string that you posted here and ask them why your Local Day Rain Accumulation is showing null.

WD only captured a fraction of the precip overnight. Since midnight, WD is only reporting 0.06" of rain. SmartWeather App is showing 0.49".

BTW, I connected directly with the weatherflow development team before I started this thread. They did not see any issues wrong with Hub or Sky from their end. I also do not see anything wrong with the UDP strings I posted (will post again below for reference). The only field showing NULL is the local day accumulated rain. I don’t believe that is even used by WD. Rain accumulated does have a value.

From Previous:

First file update
{“serial_number”:“SK-00005971”,“type”:“obs_sky”,“hub_sn”:“HB-00001940”,“obs”:[[1517004844,null,0.00,0.015,1.12,1.49,2.19,272,2.79,1,105,null]],“firmware_revision”:26}

Second file update
{“serial_number”:“SK-00005971”,“type”:“obs_sky”,“hub_sn”:“HB-00001940”,“obs”:[[1517005083,null,0.00,0.011,0.89,1.62,2.19,292,2.79,1,78,null]],“firmware_revision”:26}

Third file update
{“serial_number”:“SK-00005971”,“type”:“obs_sky”,“hub_sn”:“HB-00001940”,“obs”:[[1517005263,null,0.00,0.016,1.52,2.43,3.53,258,2.79,1,72,null]],“firmware_revision”:26}

Observation (Sky) [type = obs_sky]
Observation Value Layout
Index Field Units
0 Time Epoch Seconds
1 Illuminance Lux
2 UV Index
3 Rain Accumulated mm
4 Wind Lull (minimum 3 second sample) m/s
5 Wind Avg (average over report interval) m/s
6 Wind Gust (maximum 3 second sample) m/s
7 Wind Direction Degrees
8 Battery Volts
9 Report Interval Minutes
10 Solar Radiation W/m^2
11 Local Day Rain Accumulation mm

Any suggestions? WD is still only showing a fraction of precip with the custom update that is being reported directly by HUB to WU. Below is a picture of the latest graph and differences between the approaches using the same SKY (one direct to WU and one that uses WD to interface with WU)


Sky-Hub-WU Direct.png

Sky-WD-WU.png

try this update
http://www.weather-display.com/downloadfiles/cronweatherflow.zip
vers 2.5
has more debug info

interestingly, for me, my rain data in data position #11, which is supposed to be daily rain total, does not reset to 0, and for me, data #3 is 0

ps, I have rain (heavy too) expected here in a couple of days, which will be a good test for my SKY (and strong winds with that too)

Brian, the update is still showing only about 1/3 of the rain being shown on the SKY direct I/F. See pictures below. I’ll wait until the rain comes through your area and see how you fair. It still could be something with my setup. Thanks.


what shows in the debug window…I added debug info about the rain…that is the important thing I need to know

there is also rain debug info in WD
under view
debug info
see what shows there
e,g like
Weather flow rain increase found
i,e it will show how much the rain total had increased since the last data read, which WD adds to its totals
(one thing too , check you do not have any rain offsets set in WD?)

just noticed I needed to have more resolution for that rain debug info in WD
download a new .zip update for that to work

Here is the debug text and a screen capture (not raining at the time of capture). I didn’t see any files capturing the UDP information. Since midnight, the hub reported 0.09" to WU. WD only reported 0.02" during that same period. We have a big storm coming through in a few days, so I’ll be able to test more then.


debug.txt (30.1 KB)