We had another 0.08 inches of rain here after midnight. Both weewx and MeteoBridge finally agree with that number! Whatever was wrong with the rain_total was fixed by going JSON with the absolute latest rtl_433 (downloaded/built last night) and sdr.py 0.17.
Wish that I could say there was great joy in Whoville, but the USB link to the SDR took a dump a few hours ago:
Jan 18 04:18:07 WXpi3 kernel: [33389.799736] usb 1-1.4: usbfs: usb_submit_urb returned -121
Jan 18 04:18:07 WXpi3 kernel: [33389.799828] usb 1-1.4: usbfs: usb_submit_urb returned -121
Jan 18 04:18:07 WXpi3 kernel: [33389.799922] usb 1-1.4: usbfs: usb_submit_urb returned -121
Jan 18 04:18:07 WXpi3 kernel: [33389.800011] usb 1-1.4: usbfs: usb_submit_urb returned -121
Jan 18 04:18:07 WXpi3 kernel: [33389.800110] usb 1-1.4: usbfs: usb_submit_urb returned -121
Jan 18 04:18:07 WXpi3 kernel: [33389.800210] usb 1-1.4: usbfs: usb_submit_urb returned -121
Jan 18 04:18:07 WXpi3 kernel: [33389.800337] usb 1-1.4: usbfs: usb_submit_urb returned -121
Jan 18 04:18:07 WXpi3 kernel: [33389.800453] usb 1-1.4: usbfs: usb_submit_urb returned -121
Jan 18 04:18:07 WXpi3 kernel: [33389.800569] usb 1-1.4: usbfs: usb_submit_urb returned -121
Jan 18 04:18:07 WXpi3 kernel: [33389.800602] usb 1-1.4: USB disconnect, device number 4
Jan 18 04:18:07 WXpi3 kernel: [33390.036685] usb 1-1.4: new high-speed USB device number 5 using dwc_otg
Jan 18 04:18:08 WXpi3 kernel: [33390.546729] usb 1-1.4: new high-speed USB device number 7 using dwc_otg
Jan 18 04:18:08 WXpi3 kernel: [33390.658119] usb 1-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=2838
Jan 18 04:18:08 WXpi3 kernel: [33390.658134] usb 1-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Jan 18 04:18:08 WXpi3 kernel: [33390.658141] usb 1-1.4: Product: RTL2838UHIDIR
Jan 18 04:18:08 WXpi3 kernel: [33390.658148] usb 1-1.4: Manufacturer: Realtek
Jan 18 04:18:08 WXpi3 kernel: [33390.658154] usb 1-1.4: SerialNumber: 00000001
Jan 18 04:18:08 WXpi3 systemd-udevd[3203]: failed to execute '/lib/udev/mtp-probe' 'mtp-probe /sys/devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.4 1 7': No such file or directory
I've got a new Pi and SDR arriving tomorrow to rule out the hardware, since this does not appear to be the same issue as mentioned with earlier USB code in the sdr.py readme.....