No idea if it was empty or not. I am not backing it up to an external USB ( I know that is very bad!) so I am not sure what would be it contents in case of abrupt power down and power up. My setup is only since 2 weeks and I am still learning. Need to do some backup plan.
On Monday, 29 January 2018 16:39:55 UTC+5:30, Andrew Milner wrote: > > The log of the start-up is what is needed. > > You say the database was empty when you started weewx?? Is that > correct?? If it was totally empty then I don't think weewx tries to fill > in any gaps - as there are no gaps!! Tom can say if weewx reads history > records when weewx starts and the database is empty. > > > > On Monday, 29 January 2018 12:40:23 UTC+2, Praveen Chandrasekaran wrote: > >> One additional detail - my pi is read only mode. On abrupt power down the >> latest SQL database may not have been stored. Not sure if that messed up >> anything though I believe the pi should have still rebuilt the records. >> >> Right now I am using ntp with fake hw clock removed, I am planning to put >> in a RTC soon. >> >> Will dig more in the log sometime and also post the log here. >> >> On Monday, 29 January 2018 15:01:56 UTC+5:30, Andrew Milner wrote: >>> >>> The log would have shed light on any problems. >>> You should not have needed to use any utility at all - what made you >>> decide to use wee_database??. >>> If you had done nothing weewx would have retrieved records from the >>> logger from after the last archive record in its database automatically - >>> this sometimes takes some time. On a RPi you should either add a RTC >>> module or completely disable the fake hw clock to ensure weewx does not >>> start until it has got a correct time from the NTP servers to ensure >>> correct automatic operations which are reliant on accurate timestamps (such >>> as recovery from a power outage). >>> >>> The log is always the key - and without a log everything becomes >>> guesswork and speculation whilst with the log we can be talking actual >>> facts!!!! >>> >>> >>> >>> On Monday, 29 January 2018 09:57:59 UTC+2, Praveen Chandrasekaran wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks. Will post with all details from next time. For now I did a >>>> wee_device --dump and that populated the sql database after which I could >>>> update WU with wunderfixer (the summary still has not got updated in WU as >>>> per updated records, I can see updated records in graphs and table - I >>>> believe that is an issue at WU end and I have filed a bug report with them >>>> for the same). Not sure why weewx did not populate the sql on its own >>>> though without forcing through wee_device --dump. >>>> >>>> On Sunday, 28 January 2018 23:22:40 UTC+5:30, Tom Keffer wrote: >>>>> >>>>> This should happen automatically, but it's hard to say what the >>>>> problem is without a log. See *Help! Posting to weeWX >>>>> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/Help!-Posting-to-weewx-user>*. >>>>> >>>>> -tk >>>>> >>>>> On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 10:15 AM, Praveen Chandrasekaran < >>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> For some reason my pi went down yesterday morning for 5 hours. I >>>>>> tried rebuilding database using wee_database but to no avail. How do I >>>>>> import data from data logger to weewx so that I can use wunderfixer then >>>>>> to >>>>>> publish again to wu? >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> Praveen >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> 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. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- 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.
