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Creating easyweather.dat file from exisiting data.
Posted: Mon 21 Jun 2010 12:31 pm
by tumutbound
I've been running a WH-1080 for some months and using the pywws scripts to extract the data.
I've now got a spare PC that I can run Cumulus on and would like to include my existing data in the web pages.
I see that Cumulus can read the easyweather.dat - does thsi mean live data from the Easyweather software or can it read a file?
Assuming I can incorporate data from an easyweather.dat file, I'll need to create one from the raw data I have. Has anyone written any script/program to create an easyweather.dat file? There are a number of programs to read one and I'll start with one of these if I have to create one from scratch.
Re: Creating easyweather.dat file from exisiting data.
Posted: Mon 21 Jun 2010 12:36 pm
by steve
Cumulus can only read the easyweather.dat file as an old, alternative, deprecated method of driving Fine Offset stations, to obtain live data - all it does is continually re-read the last line of the easyweather.dat file and process it as new data.
Your best bet for getting your existing data into Cumulus is probably to convert it directly, rather than going via the easyweather format.
Re: Creating easyweather.dat file from exisiting data.
Posted: Mon 21 Jun 2010 1:20 pm
by tumutbound
Steve,
Thanks for the update.
Is there information available on the format I'll need to create to feed the data in to Cumulus?
Regards
Geoff
Re: Creating easyweather.dat file from exisiting data.
Posted: Mon 21 Jun 2010 1:49 pm
by steve
You just need to create the monthly log files and dayfile.txt, as documented in the Cumulus help file and the wiki. Optionally, you might want to create an alltime.ini file.
Re: Creating easyweather.dat file from exisiting data.
Posted: Mon 21 Jun 2010 7:46 pm
by Gina
tumutbound wrote:I've been running a WH-1080 for some months and using the pywws scripts to extract the data.
I've now got a spare PC that I can run Cumulus on and would like to include my existing data in the web pages.
I see that Cumulus can read the easyweather.dat - does thsi mean live data from the Easyweather software or can it read a file?
Assuming I can incorporate data from an easyweather.dat file, I'll need to create one from the raw data I have. Has anyone written any script/program to create an easyweather.dat file? There are a number of programs to read one and I'll start with one of these if I have to create one from scratch.
My Linux software (G-Weather) is based on
pywws so I have the same data format. I did think of writing a conversion utility to convert
pywws data to
Cumulus and might do just that in time, but time is something I haven't got ATM. I also have in mind to write some direct data editing routines complete with suitable user interface before too long. It should be a minor extension to export the data in a format to match Cumulus.