On Thursday, November 16, 2017 at 2:34:26 PM UTC-8, Rod in Edm wrote: > > Forgot to ask - once I'm ready to switch from the weewx simulator to the > actual Davis Vantage Pro 2 station, do I need to purge the simulated data > before starting polling with real data? > > yup, almost certainly - there are a zillion threads that have been posted here before re: how to do it, but the 'right way(s)' depend on whether you have pre-existing data you want to keep and the like, as well as whether you're sqlite3 or mysql for your db in weewx. You might get away with something as simple as dropping the summary tables and cleaning out all the archive records after a certain datestamp. We'd need to know more info to provide more help than that I think.
You mentioned you have a Davis, which assuming you have their datalogger means you have about a week's worth of data possibly in that. Weewx will catch up gracefully when you switch to the real station. Cool feature. You can certainly import your wview data into weewx. Presumably you've tried that already (using the simulator to append fake 'current' data to whatever starting point you had from wview). If so, you've battled through most of the transition stuff already, so you'd just need to do a little cleanup to get the simulator data out of the archive and let weewx rebuild the NOAA files and summary tables for you. Notionally it's something like: - stop weewx - delete records from the archive newer than some timestamp (to delete your simulated data) - probably drop the summary tables, which would be recreated for you automatically - probably remove the most recent NOAA month+year files, which again should recreate for you - switch to the Vantage driver - start weewx - monitor the heck out of your syslog :-) But the stuff above is just notional. We'd need more info to get you a more solid list. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
