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Switching Weather Stations, Retain Historical Records etc.

Posted: Sun 14 Aug 2022 11:10 am
by grwkak
I recently purchased a Tempest weather station with the intent of "retiring" my Vantage Vue after about 10 years of use. I have the 2 stations set up in the back garden/yard about 8 feet apart so I can gauge how differently they read. I would like to set-up my Tempest on my dedicated weather PC but retain all the legacy data (records etc.).

What I have done so far is create a fresh CMX install on my laptop for the Tempest then copy across the files from the weather PC data folder (bar the current months' data as I started recording August 1st). This seemed to do the trick with legacy data. One file I am unclear on and did not copy across is CumulusMX.db. I am not sure if I should copy this from the other PC.

My intent - now I am happy with the configuration etc. is to backup my Vantage Vue directory and copy the new install over to my weather PC and run from there.

Does this make sense - and what should I do with the db file? There are some other tweaks needed but seems I am close.

Guy

Re: Switching Weather Stations, Retain Historical Records etc.

Posted: Sun 14 Aug 2022 11:28 am
by mcrossley
You do not need that file, CMX creates it on the fly from your log files if necessary. It only contains recent data for doing some calculations and graph plotting.