Fine Offset Weather Station Binding: Discussion

[sihui]

@miwok

WS90

Fine Offset Weather Station Binding: Discussion

With the knowledge I have today, I would decide to buy the WS90 and then choose a suitable gateway + display according to the compatibility matrix. And then look for a cheap bundle. Especially when it comes to controlling devices based on weather conditions, the advantage here is that it can detect even the smallest amounts of rain.

@miwok

GW2000

Fine Offset Weather Station Binding: Discussion

Thanks Andreas, Teaching an old dog new tricks is hard. I rebuilt my test Pi again just to be sure it was not me. Compiled the new java. It connected as expected and provided a second Device on my iPhone device list -proxy. I can’t select it to get to the next screen. The direct one works but I ca’t get the Proxy to show data. This is the proxy output: bill@Discovery:~ $ java Proxy Try to discover on /192.168.0.255:46000 Found device ‘GW2000C-WIFIB04B V2.1.7’ at 192.168.0.80:45000 via…

Fine Offset Weather Station Binding: Discussion

Hi Andreas, Woo Hoo it all works. Thank you so much. I don’t know how you can do this long distance but I really appreciate your skills. Regards Bill

[spuerlue]

Hi @Br3Ak3R
i’ve got the same issue with my Waldbeck Huygens weather station.
Did you manage to solve this problem?

I would be grateful for any hint.

[the-ninth (Robert)]

Good evening!

An observation that could maybe help others with a similar problem. When I created the items in OH 3.4.0 the rain rate item was created as “Number:VolumetricFlowRate” with unit “l/min”. However it seems that the channel of the weather station thing delivers “mm/h”. For some reason that still worked in OH 3.4.0, but in OH 4.0.1 I got the following error in the log files:

2023-08-06 20:23:54.483 [WARN ] [penhab.core.library.items.NumberItem] - Failed to update item 'Weather_Station_Rain_Rate' because '0 mm/h' could not be converted to the item unit 'l/min'

I then changed the item type to plain “Number” and set the unit meta data to “mm/h”. With that change it works again, no more error in the log files.

[laursen (Jacob Laursen)]

See:

[fineoffsetweatherstation] Fix QuantityType for rain-rate

You might have to recreate your Thing if created in the UI. After that it should be Number:Speed.

[the-ninth (Robert)]

@laursen

You might have to recreate your Thing if created in the UI. After that it should be Number:Speed.

Thanks! In my case the channel in the Thing is already “Number:Speed”, but the item was still “Number:VolumetricFlowRate”. Maybe the OH upgrade to 4.0.1 changed the type of the channel and that is what then caused the incompatibility with the previously created item?

[laursen (Jacob Laursen)]

@the-ninth

Maybe the OH upgrade to 4.0.1 changed the type of the channel and that is what then caused the incompatibility with the previously created item?

If your Thing is file-based, then yes, the item type of the channel was automatically updated.

However, that PR was merged before the update instructions were added for making it possible to migrate channels of managed Things, and I don’t think it was retrofitted:

Checking if upgrade instructions were provided for all OH 4 PRs

So if you have managed Things (created from the UI), it shouldn’t have happened automatically. Not because we didn’t want that, but simply because it wasn’t possible at the time.

[the-ninth (Robert)]

@laursen

So if you have managed Things (created from the UI), it shouldn’t have happened automatically. Not because we didn’t want that, but simply because it wasn’t possible at the time.

Hmmm, my Thing was created via the UI and still was updated somehow. I have never used file-based configuration, everything in my system is created via the UI.

[neuling10]

Hi,
is anyone getting correct values ​​from the “rain-hour” channel? I get the constant value “10mm”
I’m using OH3.4.5 and a GW2000. On Ecowitt, I get correct values for hourly rainfall

[Seaside]

Just bought a ecowit wittboy, very nice to see that there is a binding and lots of Oh:ers already using it

[moody_blue (Hugo)]

I have several soil moisture sensors (ecowitt WH51). Humidity report is ok but low battery is not. Using ecowitt web ui I can see when the battery is low but this info does not flow to openHAB (lowBattery item is always off).