EasyWeather .dat files

[HWH]

Have a question on these .dat files Cumulus reads.......
I can only capture 4028 data points then clear memory & capture again till end of month.
My question is I like to keep separate .dat files for each month but I'm guessing that will present a problem to Cumulus being able to read each file if named differently. Am I correct on this?
If so then I assume I must keep one huge .dat file (by end of year huge - 4400 lines X 12 months = 53000 data points) to be able to have continus YTD info displayed.
Am I correct on these assumptions?
Thanks

[steve]

The 'easyweather.dat' method was a bit of a hack from before I had the Fine Offset protocol, and is deprecated. I don't plan to continue support for it in Cumulus 2 (although there may be a more general method for reading 'foreign' data files to replace it). It doesn't give particularly good results because of the lack of data points available.

But to answer your question, each time you changed the name/location of your .dat file, you would have to make the corresponding change to the setting in Cumulus. Cumulus doesn't care how big or small the file is; all it does is periodically read the last line of the file and process it as new data.