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*Open resulting file in a text editor and see hints in [[Monthly log files]] on how to convert between formats. | *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. | *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. | ||
==Using EasyWeather data for testing purposes== | |||
As an alternative to above, you can extract the observations directly from the Fine Offset database (''easyweather.dat'' can be read like any text file by a text file editor like Notepad or by a database file viewer). | |||
Steve has contributed the following to the forum (http://sandaysoft.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4344) see that forum thread for more details: | |||
This is to document the fact that Cumulus now reads the date and time fields, and checks that they have changed before using the data from the file. | |||
Here's the format of the easyweather.dat file, with the fields Cumulus uses in bold: | |||
easyweather.dat fields: | |||
0 - Record no | |||
1 - Transfer date | |||
2 - Transfer time | |||
'''3 - Reading date''' | |||
'''4 - Reading time''' | |||
5 - Interval | |||
'''6 - Indoor Hum''' | |||
'''7 - Indoor Temp''' | |||
'''8 - Outdoor Hum''' | |||
'''9 - Outdoor Temp''' | |||
'''10 - dew point''' | |||
'''11 - wind chill''' | |||
12 - abs 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 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= | =Memory Map= | ||