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It is raining cats and dogs as show on my Davis Vantage VUE console, but my airbridge (meteohub) displays "0.00in/hr"
I believe that the issue is with the Meteostick firmware and with with the airbridge RF sensitivity with respect to recording rain correctly.
I have tried many different settings from -60db to -105db (trying normal, wide and narrow) and no rain is recorded.

Also, on boot, the logger is showing a "unknown command" each time it starts.
As you can see blow, if the RF Sens. is too high or low, you can see that the meteostick reboots because there is no RF signal.
"restart meteostick (302 secs no valid rf signal)

Is anyone else having this problem?

system (30.10.2016 11:10:32): start of logging process initiated.
logger (30.10.2016 11:10:32): Historical data loaded (23 records).
logger (30.10.2016 11:10:32): data logger (version 5.0s, build 10685) started.
logger (30.10.2016 11:10:33): connect station 0 (Meteostick Vantage via USB serial).
logger (30.10.2016 11:10:34): transmitter 1 registered as ISS
logger (30.10.2016 11:10:34): Meteostick Version 2.1 b3
logger (30.10.2016 11:10:34): debug off
logger (30.10.2016 11:10:34): verbose off
logger (30.10.2016 11:10:34): output raw (8 bytes)
logger (30.10.2016 11:10:34): output raw (10 bytes)
logger (30.10.2016 11:10:34): filter on
logger (30.10.2016 11:10:34): rx threshold set to -105db
logger (30.10.2016 11:10:34): listening to transmitter 1
logger (30.10.2016 11:10:34): unknown command
logger (30.10.2016 11:10:34): chip authentication ok: 14
logger (30.10.2016 11:10:34): frequency band 915MHz
test5m (30.10.2016 11:10:57): weathernet daemon stalled, will be restarted now.
wnetd (30.10.2016 11:10:57): process started.
logger (30.10.2016 11:15:34): restart meteostick (302 secs no valid rf signal)

Don't go more sensitive than -90db, -105db will hardly work.
Are all other sensors coming in fine? Is rain data completely missing?

BTW, please update your Meteostick firmware, which is rather outdated.

Hello admin,

Yes, ALL other sensors are coming in with out issue.

Per your suggestion, I have updated the Meteostick firmware from version "Meteostick Version 2.1 b3" to version "Meteostick Version 2.4". I have set the "RF Sens." (rx threshold) back to "-75db") where it was before I started having this issue.

The "Unknown command" error is gone, so that is good. I am expecting rain locally tonight, so we are ready to see if the Meteostick firmware update fixes my issue. I'll let you know.

system (31.10.2016 08:32:18): stop of logging process initiated.
logger (31.10.2016 08:32:18): parent process received termination signal (15).
logger (31.10.2016 08:32:18): child process received termination signal (15).
system (31.10.2016 08:32:18): start of logging process initiated.
logger (31.10.2016 08:32:19): Historical data loaded (23 records).
logger (31.10.2016 08:32:19): data logger (version 5.0s, build 10685) started.
logger (31.10.2016 08:32:20): connect station 0 (Meteostick Vantage via USB serial).
logger (31.10.2016 08:32:20): transmitter 1 registered as ISS
logger (31.10.2016 08:32:20): Meteostick Version 2.4
logger (31.10.2016 08:32:20): debug off
logger (31.10.2016 08:32:20): verbose off
logger (31.10.2016 08:32:20): output raw (8 bytes)
logger (31.10.2016 08:32:20): output raw (10 bytes)
logger (31.10.2016 08:32:20): filter on
logger (31.10.2016 08:32:20): rx threshold set to -75db
logger (31.10.2016 08:32:20): listening to transmitter 1
logger (31.10.2016 08:32:20): bandwidth normal
logger (31.10.2016 08:32:20): chip authentication ok: 14
logger (31.10.2016 08:32:20): frequency band 915MHz (US)

Thank you for your assistance.

Steve

I can confirm that that my problem has been fixed and rain is now being recorded correctly. It looks like the Meteostick firmware update was the solution. -Steve