OP here. No skin.conf and no aqi_source configured: aqi_enabled = 1 aqi_location_enabled = 1
There is a pm2_5 column in my database but all values are null On Tuesday, August 4, 2026 at 4:39:49 PM UTC-7 John Kline wrote: > Vince, > > That’s worth noting — if he has no aqi_source set, he’s on the “auto” > default, which is one of the values that still triggers the archive scan in > beta4. So whatever got his cycle time down, it wasn’t that gate, and I > don’t know what did. We also don’t know if the OP has pm2_5_aqi as a > column in the database; nor do we know if his archive records have values > for pm2_5. As such, we haven’t reached any conclusions on what is causing > the slowdown. > > My advice to the skin author still stands. The effort to find a non-null > pm2_5_aqi or pm2_5 should be bounded by the last day or two; and not go > back 13 years (in this case). > > John > > On Aug 4, 2026, at 4:27 PM, Vince Skahan <[email protected]> wrote: > > John - I see no aqi_source in the weectl debug the o.p. sent me. He > must be running whatever the default is unless he edited skin.conf to set > it there. > > > There is no mention of aqi_source nor its options anywhere in the wiki or > instructions that I can find. It 'is' buried and set to 'auto' in > skin.conf with no commentary at all. > > On Tuesday, August 4, 2026 at 3:15:37 PM UTC-7 John Kline wrote: > > On beta4. I diffed it against beta3. The scan is unchanged — same > _archive_latest_numeric, same unbounded query. What changed is the gating: > a new aqi_source option (auto / local / forecast), with the archive path > running only when > > > local_aqi_enabled = aqi_enabled and aqi_source in (“auto”, “local”) > > > aqi_source defaults to “auto” — which is in that tuple. On defaults, beta4 > still runs the scans. So: which did you set? If you set aqi_source = > forecast, that explains your speedup, and the bug remains live for anyone > on defaults with a big database. If you’re on auto and it’s still fast, my > diagnosis is incomplete and something else in beta4 deserves credit. > > > > > -- > > 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/b0f4e2d7-ceef-4ea6-a48d-aa1030f08707n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/b0f4e2d7-ceef-4ea6-a48d-aa1030f08707n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- 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/d91d8619-53dd-49b0-b3f0-76292f8737c8n%40googlegroups.com.
