[SOLVED] Rain amount reported as 0.0 although a non-zero value is returned in weather 1.x binding

I have this binding properly reporting some values, not the rain amount. I put the binding in debug mode and here is what is returned:

2019-03-10 09:44:15.490 [DEBUG] [eather.internal.scheduler.WeatherJob] - Starting Weather job for location 'home'
2019-03-10 09:44:15.951 [DEBUG] [nal.provider.AbstractWeatherProvider] - OPENWEATHERMAP[home]: Weather[Temperature[current=1.31,min=0.0,max=2.78,feel=-1.4833904988181712,dewpoint=<null>],Atmosphere[humidity=74,visibility=<null>,pressure=1007.0,pressureTrend=up,ozone=<null>,uvIndex=<null>],Clouds[percent=90],Condition[text=light rain,lastUpdate=Sun Mar 10 09:44:15 CDT 2019,observationTime=Sun Mar 10 09:44:06 CDT 2019,id=500,icon=10d,commonId=few-showers],Precipitation[rain=0.0,snow=0.0,probability=<null>,total=<null>],Wind[speed=33.479999973216,direction=WSW,degree=250,gust=50.03999995996801,chill=<null>],Station[name=XXXX,id=<null>,latitude=XX.XXXX,longitude=XX.XXXX,altitude=<null>],<null>]
2019-03-10 09:44:15.956 [DEBUG] [nal.provider.AbstractWeatherProvider] - OPENWEATHERMAP[home]: Forecast[day=0,Temperature[current=<null>,min=-2.39,max=2.1,feel=<null>,dewpoint=<null>],Atmosphere[humidity=92,visibility=<null>,pressure=1015.21,pressureTrend=<null>,ozone=<null>,uvIndex=<null>],Clouds[percent=56],Condition[text=light snow,lastUpdate=Sun Mar 10 09:44:15 CDT 2019,observationTime=Sun Mar 10 13:00:00 CDT 2019,id=600,icon=13d,commonId=light-snow],Precipitation[rain=0.0,snow=0.14,probability=<null>,total=<null>],Wind[speed=28.3679999773056,direction=W,degree=269,gust=<null>,chill=<null>],Station[name=<null>,id=<null>,latitude=<null>,longitude=<null>,altitude=<null>],<null>]
2019-03-10 09:44:15.961 [DEBUG] [nal.provider.AbstractWeatherProvider] - OPENWEATHERMAP[home]: Forecast[day=1,Temperature[current=<null>,min=-4.52,max=1.77,feel=<null>,dewpoint=<null>],Atmosphere[humidity=100,visibility=<null>,pressure=1030.98,pressureTrend=<null>,ozone=<null>,uvIndex=<null>],Clouds[percent=0],Condition[text=sky is clear,lastUpdate=Sun Mar 10 09:44:15 CDT 2019,observationTime=Mon Mar 11 13:00:00 CDT 2019,id=800,icon=01d,commonId=sunny],Precipitation[rain=0.0,snow=0.0,probability=<null>,total=<null>],Wind[speed=18.395999985283204,direction=WNW,degree=292,gust=<null>,chill=<null>],Station[name=<null>,id=<null>,latitude=<null>,longitude=<null>,altitude=<null>],<null>]
2019-03-10 09:44:15.965 [DEBUG] [nal.provider.AbstractWeatherProvider] - OPENWEATHERMAP[home]: Forecast[day=2,Temperature[current=<null>,min=-4.47,max=4.91,feel=<null>,dewpoint=<null>],Atmosphere[humidity=84,visibility=<null>,pressure=1029.54,pressureTrend=<null>,ozone=<null>,uvIndex=<null>],Clouds[percent=0],Condition[text=sky is clear,lastUpdate=Sun Mar 10 09:44:15 CDT 2019,observationTime=Tue Mar 12 13:00:00 CDT 2019,id=800,icon=01d,commonId=sunny],Precipitation[rain=0.0,snow=0.0,probability=<null>,total=<null>],Wind[speed=11.915999990467201,direction=SSE,degree=160,gust=<null>,chill=<null>],Station[name=<null>,id=<null>,latitude=<null>,longitude=<null>,altitude=<null>],<null>]
2019-03-10 09:44:15.967 [DEBUG] [nal.provider.AbstractWeatherProvider] - OPENWEATHERMAP[home]: Forecast[day=3,Temperature[current=<null>,min=0.13,max=4.31,feel=<null>,dewpoint=<null>],Atmosphere[humidity=0,visibility=<null>,pressure=1018.71,pressureTrend=<null>,ozone=<null>,uvIndex=<null>],Clouds[percent=100],Condition[text=heavy intensity rain,lastUpdate=Sun Mar 10 09:44:15 CDT 2019,observationTime=Wed Mar 13 13:00:00 CDT 2019,id=502,icon=10d,commonId=rain],Precipitation[rain=13.25,snow=0.0,probability=<null>,total=<null>],Wind[speed=24.1559999806752,direction=SE,degree=128,gust=<null>,chill=<null>],Station[name=<null>,id=<null>,latitude=<null>,longitude=<null>,altitude=<null>],<null>]
2019-03-10 09:44:15.970 [DEBUG] [nal.provider.AbstractWeatherProvider] - OPENWEATHERMAP[home]: Forecast[day=4,Temperature[current=<null>,min=1.05,max=10.02,feel=<null>,dewpoint=<null>],Atmosphere[humidity=0,visibility=<null>,pressure=988.63,pressureTrend=<null>,ozone=<null>,uvIndex=<null>],Clouds[percent=82],Condition[text=light snow,lastUpdate=Sun Mar 10 09:44:15 CDT 2019,observationTime=Thu Mar 14 12:00:00 CDT 2019,id=600,icon=13d,commonId=light-snow],Precipitation[rain=7.86,snow=0.74,probability=<null>,total=<null>],Wind[speed=47.95199996163841,direction=SSW,degree=210,gust=<null>,chill=<null>],Station[name=<null>,id=<null>,latitude=<null>,longitude=<null>,altitude=<null>],<null>]

The rain amount for the current weather is correct today as we’ve had no rain today, but yesterday we had about 0.5" of rain yesterday but the rain value was always 0.0. I’m using OpenWeatherMap with the weather 1.x binding on an RPi3 and OH2.4.
Is this an issue OpenweatherMap?

Unfortunately, OpenWeatherMap is pretty bad in some locations and decent in others. It’s horribly inaccurate and unusable for me where I live. Weather Underground was the best, but IBM has decided to try and squeeze a little more money out of people that were never going to pay anyway. That’s a whole separate rant, though :wink:

Thanks for the reply. I’ll setup a second location and see if any nearby locations report rain amounts.