All, Weewx has been running great after the transition from my previous software. It too though experienced a periodic crash due to a future date occurrence from the Davis Pro2.
After several months of being too busy to really look at the system, I finally got around to viewing reports and find there has been no future date crashes. The only changes to my setup since the porting to weewx were the replacement of the anemometer hardware and the temperature/humidity board. If it continues to work well, then that future date glitch appears to be caused by some combination of those bad hardware add-ons. Stay healthy, Pat On Sunday, May 12, 2024 at 10:06:06 AM UTC-4 Tom Keffer wrote: > Be sure to read the wiki notes on *Moving the wview database > <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/Moving-the-wview-database#mysql>*. > > Welcome to WeeWX! You may be the last of the wview users! > > On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 8:42 PM P Black <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Tom, >> >> Thank you. It gives me some hope that the time warp will not be an issue >> with the new system. The old used a Raspberry PI 3B with an added clock >> and the new is a RP5 with built-in clock. I do use a battery backup and >> have not noticed any correlation to voltage drops and the date mix-up. >> Should have some time in the next couple weeks to load the software and >> begin transitioning the database. >> >> Thanks, >> Pat >> >> On Friday, May 10, 2024 at 4:36:09 PM UTC-4 Tom Keffer wrote: >> >>> I have never seen the Vantage emit a bad date. What does happen is either >>> >>> 1. The computer lacks a clock, so it synchronizes the Vantage to the >>> wrong time. There is a check in WeeWX to avoid starting up with a clock >>> that's really off, but the best protection is to install a real-time clock >>> in the computer. >>> >>> 2. The logger memory gets corrupted. This is pretty rare, but seems to >>> be triggered by power outages (although not always). The symptom is that >>> WeeWX fails to download any new data, so your webpage doesn't change. See >>> the Wiki article *Wiki generates HTML pages, but does not update them >>> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/Troubleshooting-the-Davis-Vantage-station#weewx-generates-html-pages-but-it-does-not-update-them>* >>> for >>> details. This sounds the closest to the situation you describe, but with >>> WeeWX it does not result in a record being downloaded with a bad date. >>> Perhaps wview does something different in this situation. The problem can >>> always be solved by clearing the logger memory. If you do a memory dump >>> first, it does not result in loss of data. >>> >>> Hope that answers your question. >>> >>> >>> On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 11:37 AM P Black <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I am in the process of migrating from wview to weewx. Yes I know I am >>>> very late to the game. >>>> >>>> The issue I have with wview is that the Davis Vantage Pro 2 >>>> periodically generates a future date that then hangs any further data >>>> collection. The fix usually involves: >>>> >>>> sudo service wview stop >>>> vpconfig /dev/ttyUSB0 cleararchive >>>> remove the bad data from the sqlite and mysql databases >>>> sudo service wview start >>>> >>>> Then if I am late to catch this issue, I have a lot of missing data. >>>> >>>> I plan to start installing weewx in the next few days on a raspberry pi >>>> 5 with a 1TB NVMe and run using the mysql (mariadb) database choice after >>>> migrating my existing database to the new setup. >>>> >>>> Assuming that the date issue is a Davis glitch and not wview, is there >>>> a software check in weewx to determine if the date is wrong and either >>>> delete the data for that time or correct it to the correct time and then >>>> log? I assume that the clear archive would also have to be automatically >>>> performed (how is that done by software) >>>> >>>> PS: I have tried the usual shutdown the Davis, remove batteries and >>>> still the bad date occasionally occurs. The Davis is the wireless version >>>> purchased 2011. 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