Rainmeter trigger not working properly

[EricMuhren]

Hi Jeroen,

I tested the rainmeter trigger and it is not working properly. The trigger doesn't stop firing. Every few seconds it is fired, again and again. 0.7 mm, 0,7 mm etc.

[jtebbens]

Ok will change it to last 3hours to see of that improves it.

[EricMuhren]

No, that's not neccesary. The rainmeter works as follows: 0,7..1,4..2,1...2,8...etc. At 00:00 it is resetted to 0.

[EricMuhren]

So you have to check if the previous value is less than the current value except when the current value is 0 and the previous value is greater than 0 .

[jtebbens]

Funny enough that is exactly do:

if (rain_daytotal != devices[device_id].last_raintotal)

Kind regards / Groet, Jeroen

Op 9 sep. 2019 om 17:41 heeft EricMuhren <notifications@github.com mailto:notifications@github.com > het volgende geschreven:

So you have to check if the previous value is less than the current value except when the current value is 0 and the previous value is greater than 0 .

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[EricMuhren]

Yes, I can see it in the code, but there must be a reason why the trigger is fired every 5 seconds or so... Perhaps you can have a look at the value of devices[device_id].last_raintotal. If this value stays 0 or isn't updated properly then the trigger is fired more than once.

[jtebbens]

Ok issue resolved (I hope). Beta release uploaded (awaiting of approval). You can dev install it from the beta branch from this repository.

[jtebbens]

Beta release is now available in the app store.

[EricMuhren]

Thanks, but how did you solve the issue? I don't see changes in the code and the file/folder dates didn't change either. Tommorow it's going to rain. Then I can test it again.

[jtebbens]

Code is in the beta branch. The "last" value stayed undefined from previous poll so I resolved it when the trigger hits.

[EricMuhren]

OK, now I've found the changed. Looks good. How do I install the beta branch in Homey. Is it just updating the beta in the store? Or do I have to do something else? I'm a little bit of a newbe in the Homey world.

[jtebbens]

Yes just 10 min ago I published the beta channel to 0.2.4 update so in the app store you can select the beta channel install.

Kind regards / Groet, Jeroen

Op 10 sep. 2019 om 20:11 heeft EricMuhren <notifications@github.com mailto:notifications@github.com > het volgende geschreven:

OK, now I've found the changed. Looks good. How do I install the beta branch in Homey. Is it just updating the beta in the store? Or do I have to do something else? I'm a little bit of a newbe in the Homey world.

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[EricMuhren]

OK, that's clear to me then. Good job!

I've lost the Homewizard device, so I had to configure all devices and repair the flows. That's not so funny. And I lost the insights as well. I was afraid this was going to happen....disappearing the project on Github. The Homewizard has got a new ID.

[jtebbens]

Sorry to hear, not sure why/how you lost it. I install various versions all the time either in developer mode or from the app store. I do had these glitches but those were before Homey firmware 2.0

Kind regards / Groet, Jeroen

Op 10 sep. 2019 om 20:21 heeft EricMuhren <notifications@github.com mailto:notifications@github.com > het volgende geschreven:

OK, that's clear to me then. Good job!

I've lost the Homewizard device, so I had to configure all devices and repair the flows. That's not so funny. And I lost the insights as well. I was afraid this was going to happen....disappearing the project on Github. The Homewizard has got a new ID.

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[EricMuhren]

OK Jeroen. I hope this won't happen anymore in the future. I design apps for Garmin devices and over there I and others have to deal with the same kind of (firmware) problems.

[jtebbens]

Yeah same, else we will have some unhappy consumers of this app. But sadly beyond me to resolve. We need the backup feature Athom promised long long long long time ago.

Kind regards / Groet, Jeroen

Op 10 sep. 2019 om 20:38 heeft EricMuhren <notifications@github.com mailto:notifications@github.com > het volgende geschreven:

OK Jeroen. I hope this won't happen anymore in the future. I design apps for Garmin devices and over there I and others have to deal with the same kind of (firmware) problems.

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[EricMuhren]

I use this for backup. Works very well.

https://homeybackup.web.app/login

Info page: https://community.athom.com/t/community-backup-restore-for-homey-v2-alpha-version/13727

[jtebbens]

Ah Geurt Dijker has been busy, ok will have a look myself. But I understand this didnt restore your Homewizard device then?

[EricMuhren]

Good question. I didn't try it! Stupid....

[jtebbens]

Sorry I am just the messenger. ;)

[EricMuhren]

Hi. It was a rainy day today, so I had the chance to test the rain trigger. It's working fine, but the refresh rate is too low. Sometimes I have to wait for more than an hour to see it refreshing the values. And that's not very useful if you want to control the blinds or sunscreen and protect them against the rain.

Rainmeter refresh lasted more than one hour

Energy meter refresh a within a few seconds

Live rainmeter at the same time:

[jtebbens]

Strange it polls every 10 seconds

Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone

Op 11 sep. 2019 om 20:14 heeft EricMuhren <notifications@github.com mailto:notifications@github.com > het volgende geschreven:

Hi. It was a rainy day today, so I had the chance to test the rain trigger. It's working fine, but the refresh rate is too low. Sometimes I have to wait for more than an hour to see it refreshing the values. And that's not very useful if you want to control the blinds or sunscreen and protect them against the rain.

Rainmeter refresh lasted more than one hour

Energy meter refresh a within a few seconds

Live rainmeter at the same time:

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[EricMuhren]

Yes, I saw it in the code (1000 * 10). But why isn't it refreshing every 10 seconds (see screenshot)? Is it Homey, is it the app or is it the Homewizard?

I've written a Python program to log the rainfall measured by the Homewizard. As you can see the Homewizard reports every 10 minutes. No problem at all. So it must be the Homey or the app.

2019-09-11;10:27:06;0.0;0.0 2019-09-11;10:37:08;0.7;0.7 2019-09-11;10:47:09;0.7;0.7 2019-09-11;10:57:10;0.7;0.7 2019-09-11;11:07:34;0.7;0.7 2019-09-11;11:17:35;0.7;0.7 2019-09-11;11:27:36;0.7;0.7 2019-09-11;11:37:38;0.7;0.7 2019-09-11;11:47:40;0.7;0.7 2019-09-11;11:57:41;0.7;0.7 2019-09-11;12:07:43;0.7;0.7 2019-09-11;12:17:45;0.7;0.7 2019-09-11;12:27:47;0.7;0.7 2019-09-11;12:37:49;0.7;0.7 2019-09-11;12:47:50;0.7;0.7 2019-09-11;12:57:51;0.7;0.7 2019-09-11;13:08:15;0.7;0.0 2019-09-11;13:18:16;0.7;0.0 2019-09-11;13:28:18;0.7;0.0 2019-09-11;13:38:19;0.7;0.0 2019-09-11;13:48:20;0.7;0.0 2019-09-11;13:58:22;0.7;0.0 2019-09-11;14:08:24;0.7;0.0 2019-09-11;14:18:26;0.7;0.0 2019-09-11;14:28:27;0.7;0.0 2019-09-11;14:38:28;0.7;0.0 2019-09-11;14:48:30;0.7;0.0 2019-09-11;14:58:31;0.7;0.0 2019-09-11;15:08:55;0.7;0.0 2019-09-11;15:18:56;1.4;0.7 2019-09-11;15:28:57;2.1;1.4 2019-09-11;15:38:59;2.1;1.4 2019-09-11;15:49:00;2.1;1.4 2019-09-11;15:59:01;2.8;2.1 2019-09-11;16:09:03;2.8;2.1 2019-09-11;16:19:04;2.8;2.1 2019-09-11;16:29:05;2.8;2.1 2019-09-11;16:39:07;2.8;2.1 2019-09-11;16:49:08;2.8;2.1 2019-09-11;16:59:09;2.8;2.1 2019-09-11;17:09:33;2.8;2.1 2019-09-11;17:19:34;2.8;2.1 2019-09-11;17:29:36;2.8;2.1 2019-09-11;17:39:37;2.8;2.1 2019-09-11;17:49:38;2.8;2.1 2019-09-11;17:59:42;2.8;2.1 2019-09-11;19:13:58;3.5;0.7 2019-09-11;19:24:01;3.5;0.7 2019-09-11;19:34:03;3.5;0.7 2019-09-11;20:17:20;3.5;0.7

[EricMuhren]

Now I see a gap in the readings at 18:00 hour of one hour. So it must be the Homewizard. Let's restart that one....!!!

[EricMuhren]

Hi Jeroen, I think 0.2.4 is OK and works fine. The Homewizard stopped refreshing the rain values for some reason. I'll investigate that.

Thanks for adding the trigger! :-)

[jtebbens]

Ok thanks for confirming. Yeah HomeWizard can be dodgy once in a while. WiFi ain’t its best chip and sometimes asking every 10 seconds could result in temporary disconnects. I had 3 different bash shell scripts running for Energylink (PVOutput tracking etc.) and added Domoticz to integrate as well. My HomeWizard crippled regularly due to many sessions active.

I will publish this 0.2.4 version to stable but will check if an increase to perhaps 20 seconds would benefit the overall stability between Homey and HomeWizard.

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Op 11 sep. 2019 om 21:23 heeft EricMuhren <notifications@github.com mailto:notifications@github.com > het volgende geschreven:

Hi Jeroen, I think 0.2.4 is OK and works fine. The Homewizard stopped refreshing the rain values for some reason. I'll investigate that.

Thanks for adding the trigger! :-)

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[jtebbens]

With your permission I will close this issue and mark it as resolved.