I live in Spring Branch, Texas and we’ve had lots of rain. I noticed yesterday the WFPIConsole is showing a lower daily total than what is on the Tempest App. The amount shown on the WFPIConsole for yesterday is 1.67" where the Tempest app shows 2.25". Is there an update that is needs, a configuration setting corrected, or ?? Please let me know what I need to do.
A few questions … do you have the Tempest app configured for NearCast rain? Are you using UDP or WebSocket in wfpiconsole?
I have seen some results that seem to show that wfpiconsole via WebSocket is returning NearCast values … but, that is a guess. UDP returns values locally, so, no NearCast is involved there.
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Thanks for reaching out. I do not have NearCast enabled within the Tempest App. The console is set to use WebSocket. It’s raining and the Tempest App is showing .82 while the Console is showing .58. I was watching it after the rain started and for some strange reason, the amount reset itself back to .50 and started accumulating from that mark. I have not noticed any issues before.
FYI… I shut down the WFPIConsole and rebooted the Raspberry unit and noticed after the system was up, there was an update. I installed the update and restarted the system, then started the WFPIConsole and the rain data seems to be correct. I will check it over the next couple of days and if I notice the rain data is different, I will update.
Thanks for the reaching out.
The frequent adjustments of totals is how NearCast works. It does seem to me that what is showing on wfpiconsole is NearCast when WebSocket is configured (at least before the update you just got). If you switched to UDP in wfpiconsole, what you saw in both platforms would be much closer (subject to timing and rounding differences).
When I am back in front of my Raspberry PI I will see if there is an update available to me too.
Just to clarify, nothing has been changed within wfpiconsole with respect to how it displays daily rain accumulation.
Within each websocket packet there is a field that contains the amount of rain that has fallen since midnight, and this is what is displayed by the console. In the past, this value was not affected by the NearCast adjustment that the Tempest servers make, and it would match what was displayed in the app if NearCast display was also disabled in the app.
It’s possible the websocket has been updated to use NearCast values. I suggest to confirm that you disable NearCast display in the app (you can find the toggle under the settings for each Tempest device) and monitor how daily rainfall is displayed in the app and on wfpiconsole
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I noticed a few days ago that it was the NearCast amounts that were being displayed by wfpiconsole when it used to be the unchanged rainfall amount. I assumed that the websocket had been changed to use NearCast values.
I have my app using NearCast, so I was surprised to see the wfpiconsole match the app. I know there hasn’t been an update to wfpiconsole to change this, so I assumed it was coming from the Tempest servers.
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HI Peter,
I have done that testing (actually did it before I posted NearCast rain vs. "raw" rain in PiConsole? - #3 by wx3i09 … but, I guess I was not clear on what I thought was an/the issue). I may have seen this around the time that there were some API changes a couple of weeks back that caused other issues with wfpiconsole (but, it did not sink in until later). Based on my testing, it does seem that NearCast data are being sent in the WebSocket interface and they previously had not been (but, this is not something I thought about until I noticed the numbers were not matching what I saw with UDP and they were doing the NearCast shuffle … adjusting up or down depending on what came out of NearCast). I am not sure if this is a bug in the API or what it is (I have only a high level understanding of the API).
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