EasyWeather Format: Difference between revisions

If you were archiving your Easyweather.dat files, you may need to repeat the whole above process for futher source files, until you have the whole period you want. When I did this, I tried to merge the exported files before creating the Cumulus logs, but dealing with 2 full years of frequent pre-Cumulus observations meant I had a massive spreadsheet with almost a million cells, and it made separation into day by day or month by month for feeding into the Cumulus logs more difficult.

 

As an alternative to above (that was for transfer of historic observations), Cumulus has the option to ''read the latest'' observations (the last line only) directly from an easyweather.dat file (see Cumulus help for how to fill in the station configuration screen) and process these. You might want to do this, perhaps for testing purposes, on a short term basis, but it is better to select the Fine Offset input for normal purposes (again see Cumulus help). As at version 1.9.3, Cumulus is not able to accept easyWeatherPlus.dat as an input.

 

(You can view ''easyweather.dat'' like any text file either using a text file editor like Notepad or by using a database file viewer).

 

 

 

This is to document the fact that Cumulus now reads the date and time fields, and checks that they have changed before using new data from the file.