This little display came with the rain gauge. The little arrow is pointing to where a decimal point should be (0.52). Only three digits so I don't know what happens after 9.99 inches.
Finally got the rain gauge connected to an input module. Every time the tipping bucket tips, a reed switch sends a pulse of voltage. The input module counts the pulses just like the display did. The 0.30" of rain reading below was just me tipping the tipping bucket back and forth to get a reading. I could tip it back and forth 22 more times until it reads the same 0.52 inches. Took a few tries tipping it several times at a time to get the reading to show which is why it made it to 0.30(30 tips at 0.01).
Tweaked the default colors in the browser and made it easy on the eyes.(screenshot) Reality looks mostly like this but a little like the phone pic above.
Now I have to figure out how often to reset the rain counter and how often to take a log and whether the log taking will be based on time duration like weekly or triggered by a value like 1.00 inches - or both.
