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Weather Related Organizations => WeatherUnderground => Topic started by: TanerH on September 08, 2020, 03:01:28 AM
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Hey all,
WU seems to display "Unavailable" for one of my weather stations when the wind speed is zero (0). I'm uploading data via weewx (4.1.1) using RapidFire, from a Davis Vantage Pro2.
I am uploading to another WU PWS ID via 5m intervals using a WeatherLink Live, and that one simply says the wind is from the North at 0.0mph. (Coming from the same physical weather station).
Any ideas what might be wrong here?
I ran weewx in debug, and noticed it does not send a "windDir" when the "windSpeed" is 0.0, is WU expecting a Direction even when the speed is zero?
I could try hacking on weewx to send "windDir=0" if the speed is 0, but figured I would ask before trying that ;)
Thanks,
-Taner
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Heh...
Well, I'll reply to myself because I figured it out after poking around some more. This might help someone else in the future.
It seems WU *always* wants a wind direction sent. Luckily, weewx lets me enable this simply by changing a config option "ignore_zero_wind" and setting it to False.
Details here -
http://weewx.com/docs/usersguide.htm#zero_windspeed
and
http://weewx.com/docs/usersguide.htm#ignore_zero_wind
-Taner