it does appear (albeit with the error warning) and I have now selected it. What I don’t know is how to determine if the data is passing through to my Rachio account? Is the local weather data appearing in my account confirmation of that? Also, with the rain earlier this week, will that be accounted for in my scheduled watering tomorrow? (Remember, I’m fixed to only Thurs/Sunday) in my city.
Also, why does Rachio not simply connect directly to WeatherUnderground?
The station is sending the data as Precip since local midnight. Unfortunately, this is the value that NOAA is not redistributing for “APRSWXNET/CWOP” stations. We have requests in to add this, but as of the end of June, we were told there was no immediate option for them to redistribute these values.
My followup to Aeris was…
If I had the customer sending data to personalweather.com would that be a “workaround”?
Their response was…
Correct, if the person is sending their data to pwsweather.com, which is owned by our company, then we have full access to their data in near real time.
Specifically, the observations from the stations are imported in our Aeris API within seconds of being received at PWSweather.com. Though the observations/summaries are updated approx every 15 minutes with the latest received data.
If this is too much work or cost, I’ll buy the controller back if the CWOP claim was misleading. This is the first I have heard of a CWOP limitation due to “NOAA is not redistributing for “APRSWXNET/CWOP” stations”
We do plan on having other weather options for next year (hint, hint) but don’t know if the timing works for you.
I very much appreciate the pro active support… thank you. Let me reply to your options and point out a big point of confusion.
As for the offered options:
Can’t use the 1st option because that would require me having a program/script running 24/7 on a computer in my home.
I already have my DVP2 connected to their WeatherlinkIP device, which is the same thing, and serves my data to WU and CWOP.
I’m stunned this hasn’t come up before and I am a bit confused. So no CWOP clients are report data to their Rachio? That can’t be correct. On my available list of nearby stations there is another that appears to be the same Davis I use and he’s also reporting to CWOP. But there is no precept error showing for him. See attached.
This station is sending the Since local midnight value, which NOAA does not redistribute AND the 24 hour precip value which NOAA does redistribute and we are able to utilize for the daily precipitation.
There may be a setting within his stations software to send both values. Its also possible the two stations may be using different software to send the data, though checking here:
If your user finds there is a setting or adjustment that allows his station to send both values please share, as this could be a potential solution for other users who have stations currently only sending local since midnight.
AerisWeather Support
If you are able to send both values please let me know and we can see if this fixes your issue. If this does fix the issue we can also report to Aeris as a long term workaround until NOAA can put in a permanent solution.
Good news. I was able to correct the matter and I am now reporting the proper rain values. How long will it take for Rachio to recognize the data and cease reporting the error to me in the “change weather station” page? thanks for your help in figuring this out, btw.
Yes, of course (should have offered it already)… My console and WeatherLinkIP both simply needed a firmware update. So Davis Vantage Pro 2 needs to be running v3.15 and the WeatherLinkIp v1.11. Not clear if both made the difference in combination or it if was one of them individually.
Final resolution, looks like one last defect on the Aeris side that has been resolved.
Franz,
My apologies for no response. I was out of the office this week, and since the tickets were assigned to me, the responses did not show up in our general support pool.
The team reviewed and resolved this issue. It seems this was a unique bug. Normally a new station defaults to hasPrecip = false. But if precipitation is received it will switch to True. Once true it will stay true unless we manually flip to false. Additionally we have an automated script that runs to check stations against a period of time. This helps ensure stations have the proper data. Unfortunately there was a bug in that it was resetting this station and others that just recently switched to sending precip back to false each night.
We have corrected this issue, as well as implemented a few additional tests for this code base.
I also confirmed we are now properly receiving and storing the 24 hour precip for this station, E9355.