On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 6:03 AM, Robert Mantel <[email protected]> wrote:

> I know this is an old thread but I want to ask you about another possible
> solution.  I have a Particle Photon based weather station that I have
> dumping sensor readings to a phant server I have running on my network.
> The phant server timestamps everything in UTC.  I can then do a jsonp query
> with a cron job python script I have running then parse that into a format
> that fileparse.py likes.  I also parse out and convert the EST corrected
> timestamp from the server into unix epoch format.  Can weewx be set up to
> ignore it's own timestamps and just use the imported ones, which
> technically are more accurate because they represent the very moment the
> reading was taken?  I tried using fileparse to import the timestamp into
> the dateTime label in weewx, but I think it didn't like that.
>

If you just add a 'dateTime' line to the file, the time you use there
should replace the one provided by fileparse.py.​



> Another possible solution to the NTP problem is to use a server you have
> on your local network and configure it as an NTP relay.  I have a freenas
> box running my phant server in a jail on it so would be easy to just set it
> up to act as an NTP relay and have the Pi sync from that rather than the
> internet, therefore I can operate completely in a net down situation and
> keep collecting data with proper timestamps.
>
>
​Yes, but would it after a "power down" situation? Also, setting up a
dedicated NTP relay is beyond the ken of most users.

-tk​

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