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Wind Speed, Direction and Gusts

Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 6:19 pm
by wildneg
I have a Acurite 5in1.

I'm still trying to get things looking right with the MeteoBridge device. I'm getting numbers that really shouldn't be, being sent up to WUnderground.

The first issue is the Wind Direction. Looking through some software forums and posting on others to find out how their software works, it appears the ones I did get answers back on send an AVERAGE wind direction up to WU. Right now, I have it set to update every 5 minutes to WU. It looks as if it sends the LAST reading up. If I pull this data down into XLS, most of the readings are correct but a bit of swirling takes place causing a few to be out of the norm. If i take the average reading of all readings in the past 5 minutes, it is accurate. But MB does not send that up. It appears to be sending the last value (or some combination that isn't correct). How does it determine direction? Is there some average? Is there any settings that can be changed to fix this?

I'm also noticing Wind Speed and Gusts are about 80% of the time, the same on WU. I'm not sure how it is determining this value to send to WU. If I go in and again, look at the data for the past 5 minutes, one would think it would send up the average of all readings in the past 5 minutes for wind speed. It would then take the MAX of those readings and send up as the Gust for that 5 minute interval. It doesn't look like that is happening.

Can anyone explain how it DOES do it? Is there anyway to change settings to make it calculate in the ways I mention above?

Thanks.

Re: Wind Speed, Direction and Gusts

Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 2:39 am
by admin
Can you please tell what HW you exactly have and what firmware release from Acurite you are using?
Things were tested with my Acurite stuff here and worked fine. Without knowing what rig you do
exactly have we are on guessing ground and not making any progress at all.

Re: Wind Speed, Direction and Gusts

Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 3:08 am
by wildneg
It is an AcuRite 1525RX display I purchased from AcuRite directly. It works with my 5in1 sensor.

I'm not entirely sure of the firmware as I'm not entirely sure how to check. I'll see if I can find that out.

It has not been updated since I bought it which was about 2 weeks ago.

I'm using a TL-MR3020 as the meteo device.


admin wrote:Can you please tell what HW you exactly have and what firmware release from Acurite you are using?
Things were tested with my Acurite stuff here and worked fine. Without knowing what rig you do
exactly have we are on guessing ground and not making any progress at all.

Re: Wind Speed, Direction and Gusts

Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 3:24 am
by admin
thanks, can you please send your Meteobridge MAC (as displayed on "system" tab) to "info(at)meteobridge.com"

Re: Wind Speed, Direction and Gusts

Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 3:30 am
by wildneg
Sent. Thanks.