RG-11 issue or maybe just the rain settings

[Lee Copper]

Hi All,

I have decided to use a Hydreon RG-11 sensor for rain detection, but I am having a odd issue.

The software has two different opinions about wether its raining or not.

The web interface never says its raining and the windows app reports that its always raining

Any ideas what may be wrong?

Thanks
Lee

[Lee Copper]

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[brownrb]

Hi Lee
Nope, no idea.

In controller_defines.h the settings are unchanged?

You are using the project PCB or something else?

Raining comes from the Rain Sensor.
//#define RAINSENSOR 1

Rainfall comes from the RG-11 running as a rain tipping bucket
//#define ENABLERAINBUCKET RAINBUCKET_RG_11

Raining Y/N comes from the rain sensor, the thing that looks like a pcb with tracks on it.
If you are seeing raining - its not coming from the RG-11

Do you have the rain sensor enabled? in the controller_config.h file?
// To enable the analog rain sensor, uncomment the next line
//#define RAINSENSOR 1

if RAINSENSOR is enabled, do you have the rain sernsor fitted to the controller and was tested correctly?

What is the RVout value ?
If you pour a slow trickle over it you should see RVOut rise in value.

I see that the web page has Raining as No and RVout as 0.00
The Windows app has Raining as RAINING and RVOut as 0.0, which looks wrong (it caanot be raining if the RVOut value is 0.0

So there looks like the Windows app may have an issue. But I need a log file for that.

Start the Windows applocation, and enable logging - logging tab, check "Errors",
checjk the logging 30s radio button.

Connect to the controller.

After connecting, go to logging tab and click start.

let the application run for around 5 minutes, then disconnect the application and close it.
Then post the Windows app logfile.

For Rain Sensor board
//#define RAINSENSOR 1

for RG11
//#define ENABLERAINBUCKET RAINBUCKET_RG_11

regards
Robert

[brownrb]

Hi

I am still working on this. I think that the issue could be both hardware and software, but I do think it can be resolved quickly once I have some free time

Regards
Robert