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Ah, interesting to know about that the data, many thanks agin for explaining.

In the end I *think* what bought the rain to life was re-enabling the hardware processing within Weewx, I don't know enough about the way the Davis protocol and Weewx work to even begin to explain the reason - it works and that is good enough for me   

If nothing else hopefully these questions and answers help somebody else following in using Weewx with this great hardware

I can imagine some conditions which may had result in a bad initialization of the Weewx (or any other software), these conditions disappear by them self after the first meteorological day begin.

Just some hints:

- If the weatherduino software has run in test mode, after changing it to normal operation mode (test mode = false) always perform a "factory reset"
This is so important, that I'm thinking to introduce a routine to automatically perform a "factory reset" if the operation mode was changed from test mode to normal mode.

In terms of software writing, I have the terrible bad habit of never predicting that things can be used differently from what I suppose they are. I have to take more care of this.