I have been runnning weewx on a Raspberry Pi 4 in simulator mode for over a week gaining confidence in it's (and my) ability. I am able to generate reports, transfer files to a web server and successfully imported a Davis WeatherLink (.wlk) file. The next step is to cut-over to my actual weather station hardware and go "live".
My weather station hardware is an older Davis Weather Monitor II which will talk to the Pi over an RS-232 link via an RS-232 HAT. The Weather Monitor II has the Davis data logger hardware which is capable of storing upwards of 1,500 archive records. My plan to migrate from Davis WeatherLink to weewx is as follows: 1. Delete the current weewx.sdb file, change drivers from simulator to Vantage, connect the weather station serial line and start weewx. 2. After some number of archive data captures, stop weewx and let the Monitor II continue to store observation records to its internal data logger. 3. Import historical data into the new weewx.sdb database. 4. Restart weewx. For this plan to work, the weewx driver needs to be smart enough to recognize and read multiple timestamped records from the station data logger (not just the current record). Depending on the length of time the station is "offline" there could be tens or even hundreds of stored logger records. Is the Vantage driver able to read multiple such saved logger records which weewx then loads into the database? I have not seen it explicitly stated that the driver has the ability to retrieve multiple stored records from a logger. My migration plan depends upon this capability. Thanks for any comments the group may offer. -- 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/c70fc204-b543-4a60-ac5a-90c6d0ab3749%40app.fastmail.com.
