First post and I am at a dead end with this problem.
(some background) I have a raspberry PiZero which I am developing a weather station with, so far it logs temp, humidity and pressure as well as sending the data to the windy.com API. Recently I added a tipping bucket rain gauge. This has 2 wires which connect to the GPIO, when the bucket tips it momentarily competes the circuit, essentially a button press!
The goal here is to count the tips every hour, then reset. before resetting, send this data to log file + Windy API. This is the part I am struggling with.
I am pretty good with python but I am at a true writers block moment, here is a small program I cobbled together from snippets which counts the tips for testing
/usr/bin/python3
import requests
from gpiozero import Button
import time
rain_sensor = Button(27)
bucket_size = 0.2794
count = 0
def bucket_tipped():
global count
count = count + 1
print(count * bucket_size)
def reset_rainfall():
global count
count = 0
#display and log results
def timed_loop():
reset_rainfall
timeout = time.monotonic() + 3600 # 1 hour from now
while True:
if time.monotonic() > timeout: # break if timeout time is reached
rain_sensor.when_pressed = bucket_tipped
time.sleep(1) # Short sleep so loop can be interupted
continue
print count
# close the log file and exit nicely
GPIO.cleanup()
It looks like you are continuously setting your rain
to 0
in your while True:
loop.
Edit: Try something like this for your loop.
def timed_loop():
rain = 0
timeout = time.monotonic() + 3600 # 1 hour from now
while True:
if time.monotonic() > timeout: # break if timeout time is reached
# You place your code here that you want to run every hour.
# After that the loop restarts
rain = 1
time.sleep(1) # Short sleep so loop can be interupted
continue
Edit 3:
With the following code you can record button presses over a specified amount of time.
import time
def bucket_tip_counter():
recording_time_timeout = 3600 # Amount of seconds you want to have the timer run
recording_time = time.monotonic() + recording_time_timeout
button_timeout = 1 # This timeout is here so the button doesnt trigger the count more then once for each trigger
# You have to modify this to your needs. If the button stays activated for a few seconds you need to set the timer accordingly.
count = 0 # Sets the counter to 0 at the start
button = 0 # Here you need to replace the 0 with the GPIO pin that returns True if the button is pressed
while True: # starts the loop
if button: # if button gets pressed/bucket tipped
count += 1 # up count by one
time.sleep(button_timeout) # wait specified timeout to make sure button isnt pressed anymore
if time.monotonic() > recording_time: # If the recording_time is reached the loop triggers this if condition
print(count) # print count
# Here you can also place code that you want to run when the hour is over
# Note that the counter wont start back up until that code is finished.
count = 0 # set count back to 0
recording_time = time.monotonic() + recording_time_timeout # Set a new timer so the hour can start anew
continue # restart the loop
time.sleep(1) # small sleep to stop CPU hogging.