Feature Suggestion

[Charlie]

Here's a situation that gets discussed often: A weatherstation (typically Fine Offset) generated some wildly erroneous data - usually rainfall, but occasionally other things like temperature. The offending value, date, etc. is easily found, but getting rid of it requires editing multiple files and sometimes making errors. In some cases you need to pull batteries because the transmitter stores the bad value in a counter that gets read on every transmission.

It should be possible to write a routine that does all of this (short of pulling the batteries). Instructions might be to disconnect the batteries in the transmitter and display unit, unplug the USB port, point to the offending data (almost always a monthly or an all time record) and have Cumulus cleaned. Then put the batteries back in the transmitter and receiver, plug in the USB, and life goes back to normal, with the offending value set to the value of the reading just previous to it.

I originally thought this would fit nicely in an external program, maybe even part of toolbox, but I not sure if Cumulus needs to be aware this is happening.

Thoughts?

[steve]

As long as Cumulus was stopped while the editing was taking place it shouldn't be a problem.

[Gina]

This is something I have had in mind for some time. Primarily for my own Linux software but once I have it working, I might adapt it to work on Cumulus data (in Windows) - if nobody else has written such a utility in the meantime. Unfortunately, I have higher priorities on my time at present and currently my software development is on hold.