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=The File Format=
Easy weather stores all its
NOTE: It seems that the newer EasyWeatherPlus.dat file, has the same fields as easyweather.dat (in a completely diferent order), plus two extra fields for Solar and UV data at the end - perhaps someone with knowledge of that format and its associated program can confirm that past observations could still be input as described below.
==Transferring past observations from EasyWeather to Cumulus==
Cumulus will read via the USB link, observations from a Fine Offset, whether it has solar sensors or not. The following notes are based on experience of a Fine Offset without solar sensor.
*In that program use the ''History'' option on the '''Record''' menu.▼
If you were archiving your Fine Offset Easyweather.dat files, you probably need to rename the latest one,and restore the relevant old one before you run the EasyWeather program. Now to import EasyWeather data from a period before you started using Cumulus, close Cumulus and run EasyWeather. It is best if you make a backup copy of your EasyWeather directory before you do any more.
*Select 'user defined' in '''Search Conditions''' box. Select a ''start time'' before you got your weather station, leave ''end time'' at default of today.
*Click '''Export''' button, tick ''Header'', choose as ''Separator:'' the symbol that is used to separate fields in your [[Monthly log files]].
*Open resulting file in a text editor and see hints in [[Monthly log files]] on how to convert between formats.
*For [[dayfile.txt]], you can create missing data from the newly created monthly log files, but you still may wish to insert breaks at rollover time in your raw EasyWeather table, possibly adding calculation of maximua or minima to such meteorological day groups, so you can scan though each day to check what has been created in dayfile.txt and edit as required.
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.
==Using EasyWeather data as current input==
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).
easyweather.dat fields:
0 - Record no; 1 - Transfer date; 2 - Transfer time; '''3 - Reading date'''; '''4 - Reading time'''; 5 - Interval;
'''19 - wind direction text''' (N, ENE etc, converted to a bearing as an integer)▼
'''6 - Indoor Hum'''; '''7 - Indoor Temp'''; '''8 - Outdoor Hum'''; '''9 - Outdoor Temp'''; '''10 - dew point'''; '''11 - wind chill''';
12 - absolute pressure; '''13 - rel pressure'''; '''14 - wind average'''; 15 - wind average bft; '''16 - wind gust'''; 17 - wind gust bft;
▲18 - wind direction number; '''19 - wind direction text''' (N, ENE etc, converted to a bearing as an integer);
20 - rain counter ticks; 21 - rain total; 22 - rain since last reading; '''23 - rain in last hour''' (used as rain rate)
24 - rain last 24 hours; 25 - rain last 7 days; 26 - rain last 30 days; '''27 - rain last year''' (used as rain 'counter' to determine other totals)
=Memory Map=
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