Rain meter Oregon PCR800

Plugins & Plugin Development USB RFXtrx Transceiver
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Hi,

I’ve bought a PCR 800, it seems to work perfectly with alpha8 except for the immediate Rain Rate that always gives 0,
where the cumulated is regularly increasing:

06 12/15/12 23:37:56.782 Device_Variable::m_szValue_set device: 166 service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:RainSensor1 variable: CurrentTRain was: 14.7 now: 14.7 #hooks: 0 upnp: 0 v:0xd04118/NONE duplicate:1 <0x2f6b1680> 06 12/15/12 23:37:56.782 Device_Variable::m_szValue_set device: 166 service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:RainSensor1 variable: CurrentRain was: 0 now: 0 #hooks: 0 upnp: 0 v:0xd03710/NONE duplicate:1 <0x2f6b1680>

Anything that I would have missed ?
Chris

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I never had any feedback from this kind of sensor. So an error on my side is possible.
Can you extract decoded and uncoded data from RFXmngr and put them here ?

3

actually just was redoing some tests pouring some water from a bottle and it seems to work.
So it seems it was because it was not raining that much… or my PCR800 is misplaced and does not receive as much as rain as it should.
Sorry for that :-[

Good work again (PS: my Marmitek security remote are working perfectly, thx)

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My PCR800 isn’t working now ! It’s 10 meters from RFXTRX and impossible to receive any signal ! Except if i put it near the RFXTRX (<1 meter).
This sensor is a peace of…

Somebody has modded it and replaced the antenna for better performance.
If anybody has done this king of modification…please tell us how to do it !
Thks