I am using WeeWx V4 but my brain was stuck in V3-land - I didn't realise the --from and --to options existed. Moral - always read the appropriate docuementation. Thanks everyone. Susan
On Wednesday, 12 January 2022 at 1:18:26 pm UTC+11 gjr80 wrote: > Perhaps I'm not understanding the issue properly but if the console/driver > is not emitting records then I would expect that WeeWX should not be adding > any records to database (archive or daily summaries). > > Also, not a solution to the underlying problem but if you only need > rebuild part of your daily summaries (which it sounds is the case) then if > you are using WeeWX v4.0 or later you should be able to use --date or > --from/--to with wee_database > <http://weewx.com/docs/utilities.htm#wee_database_utility> to rebuild a > single day only or a number of days. > > Gary > On Wednesday, 12 January 2022 at 12:01:04 UTC+10 [email protected] wrote: > >> Sometimes when we get a power failure, by WeeWx system recovers but the >> HP1000 console doesn't. This means that the WeeWx app carries on trying to >> access the console and also producing other reports, summary items etc., >> especially if the console is not recovered until after midnight. (At least >> this is how I interpret the situation.) >> What this means is that there is a gap in the data in the data base: when >> access to the console is restored, WeeWx thinks that it records have been >> added even when they have not. >> The solution is to delete all records after the last valid one before the >> power failure occurred but this also requires that all daily summary >> records be deleted (a la the various instructors such as at >> https://groups.google.com/g/weewx-user/c/ZXjuqhLz0UY). In y case I have >> 4 years worth of data in the database and therefore the '--rebuild-daily' >> takes forever. >> Is there a faster way so that I can: >> - delete the latest records after the gap >> - do some magic step here that resets a date to say when the last valid >> record was >> - have WeeWx recover from there >> (By the way, my HP1000 driver looks at the last entry in the database for >> the date from which to recover, even if the last record is 'junk' - while >> this may the the root cause of my problem, I don't know of a better way.) >> Susan >> > -- 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/ec118ec6-4de7-4f0d-9f9e-af652cd7bf18n%40googlegroups.com.
