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Add support for La Crosse View LTV-WSDR1 Cyclone Wind and Rain Sensor

Open corhere opened this issue 2 months ago • 0 comments

The signal is just different enough to not be picked up by the existing LTV-WR1 decoder. (Though tragically lacrosse_r1_decode incorrectly matches on the LTV-WSDR1 signals, with garbage output.)

The La Crosse View V41CA weather station display shows precipitation on a bar graph with axis labels at halfway and top. At the smallest scale, the labels are 1.27 mm and 2.54 mm for measurements from an LTV-WSDR1. One tip of the bucket causes the raw_rain1 value to increment by one, and the displayed precipitation to increment by ~0.25 mm. (The raw_rain2 value takes on the previous sequence number's raw_rain1 value, presumably to afford measuring the instantaneous precipitation rate from a single packet.) The LTV-WSDR1 therefore most likely measures rainfall in units of 0.254 mm, or 0.01 inches. And it is a pretty safe bet that the LTV-WR1 also measures 0.01 inch per bucket tip since it has identical specifications to the LTV-WSDR1 and transmits in the same format, and other rain La Crosse rain gauges in the same product family (LTV-R1, LTV-R3) are also known to measure ~0.01 inch per bucket tip. Change the rain outputs for the LTV-WR1 and LTV-WSDR1 decoder to be scaled to physical units.

Make the flags output field conditional so it is only output if any of the flags are set.

corhere avatar Nov 14 '25 19:11 corhere