DennisC Posted July 14, 2022 Posted July 14, 2022 @bpwwer, I noticed the Weather flow forum that someone indicated that the Weather flow API now included the ability to obtain rain totals before and after Nearcast was run. Is that true and if so would it be possible to add them to your Node Server? The post indicated the following: local_day is the total rain accumulation for each day in the station timezone. local_day_final is the total rain accumulation for each day in the station timezone after NearCast adjustments have been made. Thank you.
bpwwer Posted July 14, 2022 Posted July 14, 2022 That's not a simple request for a number of reasons. The node server's primary operating mode is to use the data directly from the sensors. NearCast values are available from the server only so it can't be used with the node server's primary mode. The node server does use the server data when first started to get historical accumulation, but in that case it also wouldn't really make sense since it would then be mixing NearCast values with non-NearCast values in the values reported to the ISY. It would be possible to use the NearCast values when the node server is in the remote data mode, but that would mean differences between local and remote, would probably need a configuration to enable or disable and would make the code a lot more complex. Given that NearCast isn't available everywhere, I don't think it makes sense to add. At least not at this time.
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