So to do the backfill, [StdArchive] no_catchup = True Thanks Greg
On Wednesday, October 14, 2020 at 6:17:53 AM UTC-5 gjr80 wrote: > Hi, > > Whilst it's true the vantage driver will backfill records generated during > a WeeWX outage there are some conditions/limitations. Firstly, in > weewx.conf under [StdArchive] option no_catchup must either not exist or > must be set to False otherwise the hardware record catchup will not be > attempted (the no_catchup option is not included in weewx.conf for a > default install so likely it will not exist on your system). Secondly, and > what probably prevents most catchups occurring, is that the catchup only > downloads those records that are newer/younger/more recent than the > timestamp of the last good archive record in your database. Whilst your > missing data may well be in the data logger it could be the you have a > record in your archive that is timestamped after the logger data of > interest. In this case the easiest solution is to stop WeeWX and use the > wee_device utility with --dump > <http://weewx.com/docs/hardware.htm#vantage_dumping_the_logger_memory> to > dump all of the archive records stored in the logger to WeeWX. You can > check the WeeWX log to see what records were downloaded during the dump. > --dump will download all stored archive records but only those not > already saved in the WeeWX archive will be saved, those already in the > archive will generate a duplicate key error which can be ignored. > > Just for completeness there is one other situation where backfill of > logged data did not occur. WeeWX v3.9.0 introduced a change whereby > backfill was only attempted on startup if hardware record generation was in > use. This behaviour was changed as of v3.9.1 and backfill is now attempted > irrespective of whether hardware or software archive record generation is > used. > > Gary > > On Wednesday, 14 October 2020 12:39:48 UTC+10, [email protected] > wrote: >> >> Have a raspberry pi 3b running weewx 4.1 (thank you for a great program >> and so much hard work and the online support), but am curious as to why the >> data which should be up to 8 days for the data logger was not uploaded >> automatically when restarting the raspberry pi. There is a gap of 3 days >> that I don't understand if the logger keeps 8 days in memory. Apparently >> there is a setting that needs to be changed but am unsure of this setting. >> thank you for your time. >> > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/f198e6cd-ba78-4850-b906-9d56f4fe5e46n%40googlegroups.com.
