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Solar radiation not showing on WU **solved**

Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 6:44 pm
by cbhiii
Hi,

I noticed that my solar data is not displaying on weather underground, but a new graph showing solar radiation now appears on their site so they must be receiving something to tell them that I have a solar sensor. Perhaps is really low or wrong value is being sent.

http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstat ... =KMIROCKF4

Re:Solar radiation not showing on Weather Undergro

Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 3:25 am
by admin
please check with meteohub's graph feature what values have been recorded.

Re:Solar radiation not showing on Weather Undergro

Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:21 am
by cbhiii
The graphs work fine and show normal values. The [actual_thb0_solar...] values work fine in web pages too. It is just what weather underground is being sent I would say.

Re:Solar radiation not showing on Weather Undergro

Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:49 am
by bsparks
I, too, am having the same issue. Meteohub is showing the values for the solar sensor, but Wunderground is showing a value of 0 in my current data and the graph is blank.

UV radiation is working fine.

Re:Solar radiation not showing on Weather Undergro

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:25 pm
by bsparks
Has anyone had any success or does anyone know anything further about this issue?

Re:Solar radiation not showing on Weather Undergro

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:01 pm
by admin
Hi, hard to test for me as I don't have a solar sensor.

However, inspecting the code again I found a bug that might have caused this. Will be fixed in the next update.

Re:Solar radiation not showing on Weather Undergro

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:12 pm
by bsparks
Excellent, thanks!

Re:Solar radiation not showing on Weather Undergro

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:09 pm
by skyewright
admin wrote:Hi, hard to test for me as I don't have a solar sensor.
Off topic but I'm finding very interesting results from using the "temp in a jar" solar sensor idea that WD allows for, i.e. a spare temp sensor is sealed in a small glass jar and placed in full sun, and a solar value is obtained by using the difference between the "temp in a jar" and the normal outside temp. There's more to it than that of couse, but that's the basic idea. For more detail try a search for "temp jar" or "solar jar" over on Weather-Watch:
http://www.weather-watch.com/smf/

I'm doing these tests on the WD instance that is getting its data from Meteohub using the new (and still under development) http request based interface.