Last night, I did put a very brief mention of option_dict in the wiki
article. https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/WeeWX-V4-user-defined-types

On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 8:16 AM Praveen Chandrasekaran <
[email protected]> wrote:

> After struggling a bit through SLE today I hav decided to go down the
> route of xtypes. Is there documentation for option_dict that you mentioned
> other day?
>
> On Mon, 15 Aug, 2022, 19:39 Tom Keffer, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Nothing wrong with a search-list extension. The chief advantage of an
>> xtypes extension is that a new aggregation type becomes a first-class
>> citizen of the tag system. Indeed, all the existing aggregations are
>> implemented using xtypes.
>>
>> $month.outTemp.historical_month_high
>>
>> vs something like
>>
>> $historical_high(outTemp, 'month')
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 7:47 PM Praveen Chandrasekaran <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Also the xtypes for monthly stats needs some more tweaks to ensure
>>> partial months aren't used for average computation and such.
>>>
>>> Gary's SLE in saratoga extensions already takes care of them :)
>>>
>>> Adding all that to xtypes seems beyond my noob skill level.
>>>
>>> Gary,
>>>
>>> How many seconds does the SLE for monthly stats take every record? Is it
>>> a big drag? If so any way to run it more infrequently?
>>> Also do you plan to replace it with xtypes at some point?
>>>
>>> On Mon, 15 Aug, 2022, 07:02 Praveen Chandrasekaran, <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I assume if go the Saratoga way of SLE for monthly stats all monthly
>>>> stats get computed every archive interval irrespective of whether reports
>>>> are generated every archive interval. That isn't good if so.
>>>>
>>>> Again xtypes seems better as the db fetches are done only on demand
>>>> there as i understand
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, 14 Aug, 2022, 23:11 Praveen Chandrasekaran, <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Though i agree that xtypes will achieve this much easier instead of
>>>>> having to add new search lists etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 14 Aug, 2022, 20:09 Praveen Chandrasekaran, <
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks. On further digging i also see that sarogata skin has function
>>>>>> for monthly stats across years. Looks like something i can steak my code
>>>>>> from!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, 14 Aug, 2022, 19:58 Tom Keffer, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's true that there is no "monthly summary" table, but that
>>>>>>> shouldn't stop you from doing an xtypes extension. I think all that 
>>>>>>> would
>>>>>>> be necessary is to modify the SQL queries slightly in weewx-xaggs
>>>>>>> <https://github.com/tkeffer/weewx-xaggs>. For example, to return
>>>>>>> the all time historical high for a month the query (line 45
>>>>>>> <https://github.com/tkeffer/weewx-xaggs/blob/master/bin/user/xaggs.py#L45>
>>>>>>> )
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "SELECT MAX(`max`) FROM {table}_day_{obs_type} "
>>>>>>>                   "WHERE STRFTIME('%m-%d', 
>>>>>>> dateTime,'unixepoch','localtime') = '{month:02d}-{day:02d}';",
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> becomes
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "SELECT MAX(`max`) FROM {table}_day_{obs_type} "
>>>>>>>                   "WHERE STRFTIME('%m', 
>>>>>>> dateTime,'unixepoch','localtime') = '{month:02d}';",
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and so on. Call it something like "historical_month_max". That
>>>>>>> leaves the problem of where does "month" come from. In weewx-xaggs, it
>>>>>>> comes from the month of the date whose page is being generated. However,
>>>>>>> you want it for a specific month, not necessarily "today." You can use 
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> optional parameter "option_dict" to set it (requires WeeWX V4.8 or
>>>>>>> greater). Then your template looks like
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> #for month in range(1,13)
>>>>>>> # <p>The historical high for month $month is
>>>>>>> $alltime.outTemp.historical_month_max($month)</p>
>>>>>>> #end for
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Unfortunately, "option_dict" is not documented in the xtypes wiki
>>>>>>> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/WeeWX-V4-user-defined-types>.
>>>>>>> I'll try to get around to that today. Or, perhaps Gary can do it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I realize this is a rather "stream-of-consciousness" post. Hope I'm
>>>>>>> making myself clear.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -tk
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 3:30 AM Praveen Chandrasekaran <
>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Finally managed to get a page like what I wanted up for one month:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://bedi.co.in/~pcws/tabular.html?report=Climatalogy.txt
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Attached template file used for same.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Some inputs on below would be helpful:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 1) The way it is done now, I need to have 12 templates - one for
>>>>>>>> each file. With changes in just 2 lines. Looking for a way to do it
>>>>>>>> smarter. I see that SummaryByMonth etc creates timespans and loops. 
>>>>>>>> But in
>>>>>>>> this scenario, the timespans I am interested in are not continuous 
>>>>>>>> (Jan of
>>>>>>>> each year, Feb of each year and so on). So I dont think I can create
>>>>>>>> timespans for these
>>>>>>>> 2) xaggs may not work I think since it seems to query daily summary
>>>>>>>> from db. There is no monthly summary in db however as I understand
>>>>>>>> 3) How do I make different month templates run at different times.
>>>>>>>> No point in running for month off Jan daily in August for example.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> PS : I am a noob on cheetah etc. Just reading through stuff now to
>>>>>>>> get hang of things.
>>>>>>>> On Saturday, 13 August 2022 at 19:30:46 UTC+5:30 Tom Keffer wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> So you did! Here's my response:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> There's no explicit tag to do that. You could loop over all
>>>>>>>>> months, then test the date to see if it is in a particular month. 
>>>>>>>>> Something
>>>>>>>>> like (NOT TESTED):
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> #for month in $alltime.months
>>>>>>>>> #  if month.start.format("%b") == 'Jun'
>>>>>>>>> #    <p>Max for year $month.start.format("%Y") is
>>>>>>>>> $month.outTemp.max</p>
>>>>>>>>> #  end if
>>>>>>>>> #end for
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Alternatively, you could write an xtypes extension and create a
>>>>>>>>> new aggregation type. Similar to the "historical_min" and 
>>>>>>>>> "historical_max"
>>>>>>>>> aggregations in the weewx-xaggs
>>>>>>>>> <https://github.com/tkeffer/weewx-xaggs> extension, except it
>>>>>>>>> would be the historical min and max for the month, instead of the day.
>>>>>>>>>
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