Personally, I would make the change, but I can certainly understand leaving
it well enough alone.

To make it easy on yourself, you could use wee_database to drop column
soilMoist1, then use it again to rename extraTemp1 to soilMoist1. Then use
wee_device to change to the correct configuration.

That way, you save your old data without having to offload anything.

Make a backup first!

-tk

On Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 7:28 AM Nate Bargmann <[email protected]> wrote:

> With the recent troubles with my Davis Vantage ISS I have been looking
> through various parts of my setup, both hardware and software.  Along
> those lines I discovered that when I set up the soil temperature
> transmitter eight years and ten days ago, I didn't set it up
> specifically as a soil temperature station, consequently, for that
> entire time that value has been stored into the extraTemp1 column.  I
> have adjusted for that error by having a label override in weewx.conf.
> Of course, that means that in the various skin.conf files I have to
> reference extraTemp1 for the presented soil temp values.
>
> Would there be any advantage to configuring the console correctly with
> wee_device and moving the present data to the soilTemp1 column?
>
> I'll admit to being somewhat of a pedant and knowing this sort of error
> exists in my archive data does bug me a bit.  :-D
>
> - Nate
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