Yeah, I understand. It’s funny that the station’s been running just fine all these years. I think I had to replace the external thermometer and humidity sensor at one point and re-crimp some of the cables, but that’s been it.
It took a while to get more than a trace of rain here, but it looks like the Daily total and rain rate are not working although all the other values look good. At this point I’m running the console code in test mode. The laptop is on battery power when it’s connected to the serial port, so I can’t leave it on 24 hours a day. I’m wondering if perhaps I’m not running consolewd long enough? Does the rain values come from the WMII or are they perhaps calculated?
I finally got a decent rainstorm yesterday and I let consolewd run for an hour. During this time, the screen on my Weather Monitor II showed .16 inches of accumulated rain. Daily Rain and Rain Rate in consolewd both stayed at 0. I’m not sure if Daily Rain is calculated over a 24 hour period, but surely the Rain Rate value should change over the course of an hour, right?
I spoke a little too soon. Looks like when it gets 19 bytes of data it successfully decodes the data. Still no rain though. I poured a bunch of water into the gauge so it would register for a bit and I’m still getting this:
****Received count = -----------------------------> 19
WMII Data OK
Current data 18:12:26: Temperature= 83.4 Windspeed =0.0 Gustspeed =0.0 Direction =116 Humidity=91 Barometer=29.9 Daily Rain=0.0 Rain Rate 0.0mm/min