Confused About Lightning Count

Did not see any current discussions on this so I am starting fresh. I have an AIR that is connected via local communications to 2 automation platforms (Homeseer and Home Assistant) to provide various verbal alerts. The lightning alerts trigger from a change in the Lightning Strikes count. We are having some lightning now so I was watching the feed into the two systems and noticed that shortly after a strike the count returns to zero. I was expecting a total count for the day so I am confused about what is going on. Is there something I need to configure in Weatherflow to get the lightning count to show a total and not reset back to zero after each strike? I notice the Distance value also returns to zero but the Last Strike time does persist so I have that at least. Both automation platforms are doing the same thing so I can’t blame the integration… did something change in the API?

the api reports the strike count in the observation interval.

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So if data is sent once per minute the count will reset to zero every 60 seconds?

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I think so, but using the api you could request data with a longer observation interval.

The count is since the last obs packet, which defaults to one minute…

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