That added the column. I'm wondering if that's what I did 3 years ago. Sorry I forgot.
What about the "import weewx.schemas.wview_extended" question? I still don't know exactly where that would go, or, how it works in my installation or if it's even necessary. Thanks. On Thursday, June 4, 2026 at 4:47:01 PM UTC-5 Vince Skahan wrote: > > https://www.weewx.com/docs/5.3/utilities/weectl-database/#add-a-new-observation-type-to-the-database > > perhaps ? > > On Thursday, June 4, 2026 at 2:04:30 PM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > >> I have already googled and searched this forum for how to solve this >> problem and wasn't able to find it. Some background is needed: >> Some years ago I added a sensor to detect lake height, and at the Weewx >> 4.7.1 era time I thought I needed to add Lake Elevation ("LakeElev"). I >> remember doing something to extend the schema, and the database browser >> indeed showed the last column labeled "LakeElev". It was working fine. For >> years. It continued to work fine when I had to rebuild my RPI4 because the >> memory card was damaged (lightning, I'm guessing). That was about 2 years >> ago. Rebuilt it, added things, and stuck my old weewx.sdb in there and (I >> wont mention the struggle with owfs but eventually got them working again) >> and the .sdb was logging all the parameters correctly. This was weewx 5.0. >> Ffwd to the other day. Lightning struck nearby. Pi continued to appear >> working, until 2 days later I rebooted it, it's boot section of the USB >> stick was corrupted; I had backup of most things so started to rebuild. Got >> the pi up w/ latest os (trixie), added the stuff I needed, then did a fresh >> complete install of weewx 5.3.1 with the Davis plugged into the TTYUSB0, it >> was reading / catching up / logging, everything looked good then I >> remembered I this data didn't have Lake Data, so stopped weewx, replaced >> the .sdb with the previous .sdb, and all weewx did was throw errors about >> can't write to a read-only database (I made sure it was permissioned >> properly, I can think of no reason weewx wouldn't archive to it). So I put >> the new .sdb in and it continued to update, and at least weewx would >> archive to it. >> So now I've gotten my extensions.py incorporated where it reads cpu temps >> from some processors on the network and puts them in the correct places in >> the .sdb, and of course reads the lake elevation, tries to put it in >> "LakeElev" but it doesn't exist. >> I forgot how I added LakeElev column years ago, and something tells me >> the correct way to do that has evolved anyway. >> So my question revolved around how do I get the LakeElev column into my >> .sdb so my extensions.py will place them there? >> I'm enclosing copy of extensions.py and weewx.conf (I haven't reinstalled >> my owfs hat yet, so no mention of owfs in the .conf) >> I did read "Upgrade Guide" as Tom mentioned to someone, it mentions >> "import schemas.wview_extended" must be replaced by >> "import weewx.schemas.wview_extended", I had *neither* in the >> extensions.py so I don't know how it worked with 5.0, and now I don't >> understand where the new statement is supposed to go. Or how I add that >> column to my short weewx.sdb. >> -- Thank you -- >> > -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/0f30ffbb-2827-415c-aa2b-fb7c1bb74010n%40googlegroups.com.
