Thanks. Upgrade to 4.5.1 went fine, but this command throws an error which 
puzzles me:

/home/weewx $ sudo bin/wee_database --add-column=energy_total --type=REAL 
--config=archive/envoy.sdb
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bin/wee_database", line 1138, in <module>
    main()
  File "bin/wee_database", line 186, in main
    config_path, config_dict = weecfg.read_config(options.config_path, args)
  File "/home/weewx/bin/weecfg/__init__.py", line 180, in read_config
    default_encoding='utf-8')
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 1229, in __init__
    self._load(infile, configspec)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 1287, in _load
    content = self._handle_bom(content)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 1437, in _handle_bom
    r eturn self._decode(infile, self.encoding)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 1517, in _decode
    infile[i] = line.decode(encoding)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x92 in position 31: 
invalid start byte

Raspian Desktop Buster updated/upgraded
Intel NUC
WeeWx 4.5.1

> On 19 Apr, 2021, at 15:57, vince <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Your weewx is too old.  You need to update to 4.5.0 or later according to the 
> release notes at https://github.com/weewx/weewx/releases 
> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/releases>
> 
> 
> On Monday, April 19, 2021 at 11:38:54 AM UTC-7 [email protected] 
> <http://gmail.com/> wrote:
> I am asking just that but I can’t see how —binding might work
> 
> When I installed the Envoy drive, it still uses wx_binding when in creates 
> envoy.sdb
> 
> So I tried:
> 
> In /home/weewx:
> 
> sudo bin/wee_database --add-column=energy_total --config=archive/envoy.sdb
> 
> And it throws an error:
> 
> wee_database: error: no such option: --add-column
> 
> 
>> On 16 Apr, 2021, at 17:58, vince <[email protected] 
>> <applewebdata://6837E4CA-8D58-4732-B5F6-A82979FC169B>> wrote:
>> 
> 
>> (untested but...) see if the --binding option gets you what you're looking 
>> for, if you're asking how to add column(s) to a secondary database other 
>> than the default one.
>> 
>> On Friday, April 16, 2021 at 2:54:19 PM UTC-7 [email protected] 
>> <http://gmail.com/> wrote:
>> From the WeeWx docs:
>>> Adding a new type to an existing database
>>> Here's how you would add the observation type electricity (from the example 
>>> Adding a second data source 
>>> <http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm#Adding_2nd_source>) to an existing 
>>> database by using wee_database:
>>> 
>>> wee_database --add-column=electricity
>> 
>> But if I want to specify **which** .sdb file can I do:
>> 
>> wee_database --add-column=mynewcolumn --config=another.sdb (which already 
>> exists).
>> 
>> WeeWx 4.4.1
>> Python 3.7
>> Raspian Desktop Buster
>> 
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