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No Rain Data from ObserverIP

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2016 12:30 am
by scott2020
Hi,
I am new, in the trial period, and we had our first rain today. I am using an Ambient Weather ObeserverIP. All other data appears to be correct, but no rainfall was registered today. When I look at the web interface of the ObserverIP, it does show .79 inches of rain today. The Meteobridge live data shows no rain data at all. I am running version Meteobridge 3.0 (Jul 30 2016, build 10212), FW 1.3 on a D-LINK DIR-505. Thanks for any assistance!

Re: No Rain Data from ObserverIP

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2016 10:38 pm
by admin
Code for ObserverIP has not changed till ages. Anybody else having this problem?

Re: No Rain Data from ObserverIP

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2016 6:56 pm
by scott2020
I am using firmware 3.09 currently of the Observer ip. Yesterday we had a ton of rain, about 3 inches, and it WAS recorded properly. However, it looks like the first rain after I restarted my DIR-505 did not register.

Re: No Rain Data from ObserverIP

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2016 3:07 pm
by mike88ag
I've experienced a similar problem recently. It started raining heavily a few days ago and the rainfall was registering on my VantagePro display, but it was not being sent to Weather Underground or CWOP. I rebooted Meteohub from the browser interface and the missing rainfall was sent as a single total. It worked for approximately one hour before experiencing the same behavior again. This time I unplugged the SheevaPlug, waited 15 seconds, and plugged it back in. It worked fine for a few days before I noticed it was acting up again. This time the problem began just before midnight, and after midnight the prior day's rainfall was not set to 0". It started at 0.08". Later in the day we received 0.53" of rainfall, but the amount reported to Weather Underground was 0.61" (the bogus 0.08 plus the actual 0.53"). A little while later the precipitation total value in the data table declined to 0.53", but the daily summary table still showed 0.61". Before going to bed last night I once again power cycled the SheevaPlug, and although it seemed to start working again, I woke up this morning and saw that Weather Underground data table showed a total of 52" of rainfall yesterday (although the daily summary still showed 0.61")! The bad values started showing up after I powered it back up. The total reset to zero at midnight and it seems to be working for now.

One other thing I noticed is that this issue is also affecting wind gust data. whenever it is acting up, both the rain rate and wind gust fields show "--" in the data table...like the data isn't being sent at all. When it is working correctly, both fields show "0" if the wind is calm and it is not raining.

Could this have something to do with the most recent update? What about the memory card? I've been using this for several years and have never transferred data from the memory card, so it could be reaching its capacity. Do any issues result from the card being full, or does Meteohub simply overwrite the older data? I attached a csv file to illustrate the odd behavior. EDIT: I tried to attach the file, but I'm not sure it worked.

Re: No Rain Data from ObserverIP

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2016 3:19 pm
by admin
mike88ag wrote:I've experienced a similar problem recently. It started raining heavily a few days ago and the rainfall was registering on my VantagePro display, but it was not being sent to Weather Underground or CWOP. I rebooted Meteohub from the browser interface and the missing rainfall was sent as a single total. It worked for approximately one hour before experiencing the same behavior again. This time I unplugged the SheevaPlug, waited 15 seconds, and plugged it back in. It worked fine for a few days before I noticed it was acting up again. This time the problem began just before midnight, and after midnight the prior day's rainfall was not set to 0". It started at 0.08". Later in the day we received 0.53" of rainfall, but the amount reported to Weather Underground was 0.61" (the bogus 0.08 plus the actual 0.53"). A little while later the precipitation total value in the data table declined to 0.53", but the daily summary table still showed 0.61". Before going to bed last night I once again power cycled the SheevaPlug, and although it seemed to start working again, I woke up this morning and saw that Weather Underground data table showed a total of 52" of rainfall yesterday (although the daily summary still showed 0.61")! The bad values started showing up after I powered it back up. The total reset to zero at midnight and it seems to be working for now.

One other thing I noticed is that this issue is also affecting wind gust data. whenever it is acting up, both the rain rate and wind gust fields show "--" in the data table...like the data isn't being sent at all. When it is working correctly, both fields show "0" if the wind is calm and it is not raining.

Could this have something to do with the most recent update? What about the memory card? I've been using this for several years and have never transferred data from the memory card, so it could be reaching its capacity. Do any issues result from the card being full, or does Meteohub simply overwrite the older data? I attached a csv file to illustrate the odd behavior. EDIT: I tried to attach the file, but I'm not sure it worked.
Not to confuse readers here, you are using a METEOHUB not a METEOBRIDGE.

Re: No Rain Data from ObserverIP

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2016 3:43 pm
by mike88ag
Ahhhh...you are correct. I noticed the similarity with my issue and replied here, but I'll go ahead and post it in the other forum. Thanks!