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=The File Format= | =The File Format= | ||
Easy weather stores all its data in easyweather.dat. The file format for this has been described in detail [http://www.jim-easterbrook.me.uk/weather/ew/ here] | Easy weather stores all its data in easyweather.dat. The file format for this has been described in detail [http://www.jim-easterbrook.me.uk/weather/ew/ here] | ||
==Transferring | ==Transferring past observations from EasyWeather to Cumulus== | ||
If you need to import EasyWeather data from a period before you started using Cumulus, then close Cumulus and run EasyWeather, | If you need to import EasyWeather data from a period before you started using Cumulus, then close Cumulus and run EasyWeather. | ||
If you have been archiving your EasyWeather Easyweather.dat files, you will need to rename the latest one,and restore the relevant old one before you run the EasyWeather program. | |||
*In that program use the ''History'' option on the '''Record''' menu. | |||
*Select 'user defined' in '''Search Conditions''' box. Select a ''start time'' before you got your weather station, leave ''end time'' at default of today. | *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]]. | *Click '''Export''' button, tick ''Header'', choose as ''Separator:'' the symbol that is used to separate fields in your [[Monthly log files]]. | ||
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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 as current input== | ==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 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 an alternative to above (that was for transfer of historic observations), Cumulus has the option to ''read the latest'' observations 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). | ||