18 inches of rain today!

[jay (support)]

Bringing this thread back to it's original post, I hate to have to report similar behavior. This is the first time I've seen it:

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I promise I didn't get 2 miles of rain. So, I suppose there are a couple of questions for the RFX guys (my RFXrec has v39 firmware):

1. How to I fix this - does it require resetting the rain sensor?
2. If I need to upgrade my firmware, have you guys built a Mac tool to do that yet (I think at one point you were working on it)?
3. What is raintotal?
4. Wouldn't it make sense to add error checking such that when a sensor clearly is having issues like this it got reported to the user? I'd think that you'd just skip updating the appropriate states with the clearly bogus values and set the error so that the device would turn red (and throw an error into the log).

Hi Jay,

Rainrate and Raintotal are reported by the sensor.
The other values are calculated in the plugin.
This it where it seems to go wrong (very rarely....).
So:

1. The easiest solution, remove the sensor from the list and add it again, resetting the sensor is not necessary.
2. RFXCOM took over the development for a MAC tool from me, I'll ask Bert what the plans are.
3. Raintotal is one of the two native values from the rain sensor (this one is 'normal' in your sensor, so there's nothing wrong with the sensor)
4. I will, thanks for the advice.

+1 for a mac tool for this.

The other options out there for mac for updating the firmware suck.

So I bought the antenna mentioned below and I cut the coil antenna inside the PCR800. From the pic I see here:

http://board.homeseer.com/showpost.php? ... stcount=13

How do I attach the cable from the antenna to the two posts? There's only 1 "wire" inside.

I have seen other problem calls about the PCR800 rain sensor. The antenna is inside the PCR800 and not the optimum condition.
http://board.homeseer.com/showpost.php? ... stcount=13
It can easily be modified to use an external antenna. Remove the coil antenna from the PCR800, cut the SMA connector from the cable and connect the cable to the PCR800.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antenna-433MHz- ... 3f2678e638