# Frequency of UDP messages by type

**URL:** <https://community.tempest.earth/t/frequency-of-udp-messages-by-type/17925>\
**Category:** Developers\
**Created:** [July 7, 2022, 11:53pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/frequency-of-udp-messages-by-type/17925 "2022-07-07T23:53:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![mabeatty1978](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/mabeatty1978/32/15139_2.png) [@mabeatty1978](https://community.tempest.earth/u/mabeatty1978)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 11:53pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/frequency-of-udp-messages-by-type/17925/1 "2022-07-07T23:53:53Z")

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Hello,

I’ve got a socket listener pulling in UDP messages from my hub and all I’m seeing come in are type rapid\_wind, hub\_status, device\_status, and obs\_st.

In reading the documentation there should also be obs\_air, obs\_sky (and also rain and lightning events, which I haven’t had a chance to receive). Do those messages not happen frequently (I’ve been watching about 15 minutes) or is there something I need to do to turn them on?

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**Author:** ![vreihen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/vreihen/32/13217_2.png) [@vreihen](https://community.tempest.earth/u/vreihen)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 12:12am UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/frequency-of-udp-messages-by-type/17925/2 "2022-07-08T00:12:01Z")

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obs\_sky and obs\_air are sent from older Sky and Air devices. If you don’t have them, you obviously won’t see their info…

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**Author:** ![mabeatty1978](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/mabeatty1978/32/15139_2.png) [@mabeatty1978](https://community.tempest.earth/u/mabeatty1978)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 12:34am UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/frequency-of-udp-messages-by-type/17925/3 "2022-07-08T00:34:35Z")

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Thank you. I was just comparing those two messages with what I have in the obs\_st and it looks like only the daily rain accumulation is missing. And the tempest rest can get that from the device itself.

Answers my question, thank you.

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**Author:** ![vinceskahan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/vinceskahan/32/2785_2.png) [@vinceskahan](https://community.tempest.earth/u/vinceskahan)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 4:03am UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/frequency-of-udp-messages-by-type/17925/4 "2022-07-08T04:03:04Z")

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Daily rain accumulation doesn’t appear in the UDP messages on a Tempest. The UDP reference has a placeholder for it for the old Sky sensor, but it never had a value there (if I recall correctly).