Weatherflow and Mac

works OK here
just tested
try restarting WD


Maybe a clue…when starting up WD it shows as attached. cronweatherflow does start, but I closed it before taking this snap of the screen. WD title bar says weatherflow, but it still seems to be defaulting to davis. It’s been a long time since I messed with IOS version of WD and I can’t remember if there is an ini file or where WD stores this info…is it possible to manually edit the ini file in IOS?


defWFlow.png

Caught this error…manually created the file but no help…


Looks like a permision error
With that settings file in that error

Any suggestions on where to look for the problem? I created the ini files and gave them 777 permissions as well as their parent directory but nothing helped…

Also, WD is getting info from someplace as the data counter is incrementing. I thought I turned off all internet access and metar data so what WD is counting is unknown. Do you have removal instructions for the IOS version of WD? I’ve tried deleteing WD but everytime I re-install it WD is finding settings from earlier installs and I have no idea where these settings are stored.

Another question…I do not have the Weatherflow USB connected to my iMac. WD appears to be able to access WF via wifi since WD finds the sensors ok when I hit the button to find sensor names. Does WD require the WF to be physcially connected to the computer running WD?

Ok, figured it out. Once I removed WD completely and re-installed it now reads the Weatherflow data. Have some issues with graphing solar and can’t find the lightning settings to verify, and the “rain today” is not showing correct on the WD console. Sucks they couldn’t see their way to include and indoor thermometer with this station but I can live without that…

Re solar
Make sure the switch is on in the solar setup
Re lightning
Try the latest update
I am away this weekend at a university reunion
But will test the solar and lightning when I get back

Oh and you can have indoor temp/ hum
Via a second air sensor
And then you set that sensor to be used for
Indoor in WD

They always promised an indoor BREATHE sensor to do that. . . but?

Ok, if you want we can work on this when you return. FYI, downloaded latest, not seeing solar or uv plotted on WD console. Solar is being picked up by WD and the solar% shows on the console above the graph but no plot. I set to store the UV as extra hun #4 but I do not see uv anywhere on the console screen. As for lightning, it’s a rare event here but the NWS says we may get some this evening…if WF picks up some strikes I will let you know if it’s graphed or not. (add: strikes recorded by WF do not show on WD console)

How do I get those vertical lines that keep showing up on the graphs that move with the cursor if I mouse over the graph? They keep popping up on the graphs even when I don’t mouse over the WD console…

And what are the two bars above the compass? (add: They appear to show solar% on the top bar and maybe hours of sun on lower bar?)

(add: Could you reduce the WD console Rain Today to only show 2 decimal places? Mine is showing 4 decimal places for some reason.)


Looking very good…


the rain shows that number of decimal places because it can (i.e because the WF rain sensor reports to a lot of decimal places)

And what are the two bars above the compass? (add: They appear to show solar% on the top bar and maybe hours of sun on lower bar?)

yes

How do I get those vertical lines that keep showing up on the graphs that move with the cursor if I mouse over the graph? They keep popping up on the graphs even when I don't mouse over the WD console...
its just a graphics glitch on the mac/linux version. only solution is I can look to see to not show the vertical line at mouse cursor position

re lightning, did the strike show under view, lightning strikes?
i will so some testing here today

FYI, I ended up changing the color of the vertical lines to black so I don’t see them with my screen colors.

Lightning…showed up kinda…the total shows 3 with the lasst strike recorded at 9am and that was 3 hours ago so there should have been counts shown for last 12 hours at least…


WD stopped updating data overnight (WD was running just not updating) so I still don’t know if lightning strikes will be displayed or shown on the console…I re-started WD a little after 8am and you see how the graphs all jumped to show current readings. Rain amount when using UDP is not recording correctly. If I turn off UDP it will stay very close to what smartwx shows. Running the April 11th build 312 here now.

A side note about the WeatherFlow station…yesterday my Davis Vue recorded 0.11" of rain, the WF recorded 0.0050" of rain. Best guess is the haptic sensor doesn’t record small rain drops. The weather was more like drizzle. I guess the rain drops were to small to register on the AIR sensor. This is one situation where the tipping bucket is better suited for measuring rainfall.


there is a new update re the lightning strike info
the plotting on the graph should work now

re the rain when not using UDP
what I need is a copy of the weatherflow2.txt file when it does not have rapid wind data …i.e has rain data in it, when using UDP

{“status”:{“status_code”:0,“status_message”:“SUCCESS”},“device_id”:22010,“type”:“obs_sky”,“source”:“cache”,“summary”:{“precip_total_1h”:0.032,“precip_total_24h”:9.43,“precip_high_24h”:0.118,“precip_high_epoch_24h”:1555175417,“precip_accum_local_yesterday”:0.088},“obs”:[[1555188195,16632,0.98,0.032444,0,2.1,4.56,246,3.39,1,138,9.380444]]}

good oh, that is exactly what I am looking for
I will do some testing/checking

also post here the contents of the file weatherflow3.txt (that file should update when ever the weatherflow2.txt file has rain data in it)

i have a new update
with some debug code re the rain when using the calculated rain option
it works in testing, by adjusting the rain total in the weatherflow3.txt file (i.e which should be a copy of the weatherflow2.txt file when that has rain data in it (and not just rapid wind data)

more weatherflow2.txt
{“status”:{“status_code”:0,“status_message”:“SUCCESS”},“device_id”:22010,“type”:“obs_sky”,“source”:“cache”,“summary”:{“precip_total_1h”:0.092,“precip_total_24h”:9.522,“precip_high_24h”:0.118,“precip_high_epoch_24h”:1555175417,“precip_accum_local_yesterday”:0.088},“obs”:[[1555193832,41444,2.92,0.091587,2.15,3.36,5.19,304,3.4,1,345,9.471587]]}
Macintosh:webfiles deadeye916$ more weatherflow2.txt
{“status”:{“status_code”:0,“status_message”:“SUCCESS”},“device_id”:22010,“type”:“obs_sky”,“source”:“cache”,“summary”:{“precip_total_1h”:0.092,“precip_total_24h”:9.522,“precip_high_24h”:0.118,“precip_high_epoch_24h”:1555175417,“precip_accum_local_yesterday”:0.088},“obs”:[[1555193892,40569,2.89,0,0.4,2.34,4.38,290,3.4,1,338,9.472]]}

more weatherflow3.txt
{“status”:{“status_code”:0,“status_message”:“SUCCESS”},“device_id”:22010,“type”:“obs_sky”,“source”:“cache”,“summary”:{“precip_total_1h”:0.092,“precip_total_24h”:9.522,“precip_high_24h”:0.118,“precip_high_epoch_24h”:1555175417,“precip_accum_local_yesterday”:0.088},“obs”:[[1555193832,41444,2.92,0.091587,2.15,3.36,5.19,304,3.4,1,345,9.471587]]}
Macintosh:webfiles deadeye916$ more weatherflow3.txt
{“status”:{“status_code”:0,“status_message”:“SUCCESS”},“device_id”:22010,“type”:“obs_sky”,“source”:“cache”,“summary”:{“precip_total_1h”:0.092,“precip_total_24h”:9.522,“precip_high_24h”:0.118,“precip_high_epoch_24h”:1555175417,“precip_accum_local_yesterday”:0.088},“obs”:[[1555193892,40569,2.89,0,0.4,2.34,4.38,290,3.4,1,338,9.472]]}

Had to simulate rain…note that rain number in WD did NOT change after this recorded rain…I dribbled water on the sensor until I saw a rainfail reading in cronweatherflow v1.9