Importing easyweather history

steve · **Posted:** Fri Jul 16, 2010 9:23 pm

andyf wrote:

I'm left wondering if Cumulus "made up" the data for January to June, or did it in fact find data in the 1080 that even it didn't show when cycling through its history (I'm note sure this is the case however - the 15 min interval I use gives about 40 days of data so so the memory couldn't have had anything earlier than about mid May.

The way it works is that it starts from the current entry in the logger and goes backwards using the interval in each logger entry, until it gets to the 'timestamp' date OR it has read all of the valid entries from the logger. I thought there were checks to make sure it doesn't keep wrapping around re-using entries (the entries don't have timestamps), but maybe not...

If you zip up the diags folder and attach it, I can see what happened. But it does sound like a bug...

steve · **Posted:** Fri Jul 16, 2010 9:39 pm

Actually, you don't need to upload the diags. I've looked at the code and if the memory is full it does indeed keep going round reusing entries until it gets back to the 'timestamp' date.

andyf · **Posted:** Fri Jul 16, 2010 10:35 pm

steve wrote:

Actually, you don't need to upload the diags. I've looked at the code and if the memory is full it does indeed keep going round reusing entries until it gets back to the 'timestamp' date.

Thanks for the quick response

Thought I better clarify that in the case I describe the 1080 memory wasn't "full" (as in the bottom right circle being fully black) - it only had data for 2nd July to 15th July, 13 days when I usually get over 40 days before the bottom right indicator nears 100%.

However as the 1080 has been in use for over 2 years could it be that the old data from previous cycles was being returned as the 1080 had not re-used the slots for new data and the 1080 didn't recognise the old data as invalid?

If it helps I think I may have the diags etc from the 1st run as I only copied/renamed the folders rather than deleting.

I did have a suspicion about the data being re-read/reused but didn't analyse the cumulus files rigourously to prove it, but I'm also wondering if a side effect of the "endlessly going backwards" is that the max / min etc. data land up being recorded against the earliest dates hence my seeing data for between the Timestamp date and the 1st "real" data.

Andy

steve · **Posted:** Sat Jul 17, 2010 10:10 am

When the memory is cleared, it gets set to all "FF" and Cumulus checks for this to know whether the entry is valid or not. It's the only way it can know if data is valid or not, as the entries aren't timestamped. So if your memory wasn't 'full' but had entries which weren't set to FF, then Cumulus is going to have problems when downloading old data if it's told to go back further than the earliest valid memory location, and I don't see that there's anything I can do about that. Normally, it's not a problem, of course.

Perhaps the station didn't reset the memory to FF correctly when you cleared it on the 2nd July. Did you have a particular reason for clearing the memory in the first place?

Perhaps you could upload the diags and I'll see what happened.

mywaynow · **Posted:** Thu Mar 03, 2011 9:33 pm

dane wrote:

steve wrote:

There's no automated way of importing the data, but as the formats of the Easyweather and Cumulus files are both well-known, it shouldn't be too hard to convert one to the other (but I guess some programming of some sort would be involved). It's complicated by the fact that Cumulus has two files - the additional one being a daily summary.

Steve

I had some old EasyWeather.dat data (from before my installation of Cumulus) that I wanted to try to import into Cumulus, so I threw together some code to do the conversion from EasyWeather.dat to Cumulus' two files: the dayfile.txt and the xxx08log.txt.
After the conversion I added the output to the Cumulus files - and the result seems to be OK: using Select-a-Graph I can see the old data. The code cannot update the "All time hi/low" data, naturally

So: if anybody has a need for this sort of conversion, I'll be happy to attempt to do it.

Hi Dane,

I have jsut this evening installed Cumulus, having got feed up with Easy Weather, I already like it a lot compared to Easy Weather, I have data going back to the beginning of the year which I would like to import if possible? Trouble is, I am failry competent at handling Windows software but digging underneath the bonnet and into code is way outside of my capabilities, is there anything that you can do to help me? I can be contacted on david@cavanagh.cc Sadly I jsut downloaded all the data on my weather station to Easy Weather and deleted it off the station before deciding to give up with it and move to Cumulus! Otherwise I would have had most of the data still on the machine and probably wouldn't be too worried about what was missing.

dane · **Posted:** Thu Mar 03, 2011 10:45 pm

David,
I'll be happy to help you.
I have sent you an e-mail with details about the input I'll need to do the conversion.

milesharvey · **Posted:** Mon Apr 11, 2011 7:05 pm

Hi. I'm also moving across from EasyWeather with about 2 years of data (24000 records sampled hourly) - all in the Easyweather.dat file.
I'd like to load the historic data into Cumulus. I have some skills in data manipulation but if someone else has made a headstart already then I would appreciate not "re-inventing the wheel".
Any assistance and advice would be great, and would be reciprocated.
thanks
I'm contactable on mharvey@harveynz.info
My easyweather.dat file is in dropbox at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18401133/201104 ... eather.zip

dane · **Posted:** Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:03 pm

Private message sent to you.

h2o_dog · **Posted:** Tue Jun 14, 2011 2:40 am

dane wrote:

J_K: is the data of interest to you still in your weather station unit?

If so, you can force Cumulus to read it and build all its data from the information in the unit.

I found this post quite helpful. Thanks for the info. Thanks for the forum. Thanks for the software. (small donation sent)

Fred_in_oz · **Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2011 1:24 pm

Hi everyone

Having finally decided to lash out and buy myself a weather station for my birthday (a rebadged Fine Offset WS-3081 for $100 on ebay) and installed the EasyWeatherPlus software that came with it I decided that there had to be a weather program out there that was easier to setup/view and thankfully found Cumulus :clap:

A great job on a great program Steve :clap:

So I began to wonder if I would be able to transfer the data from my weather station and found this post. Luckily I had only been running the weather station for about 3 weeks so it still had all the data in it. I modified the date stamp in the today.ini file (as dane suggested) to just after the first reading and it downloaded everything perfectly so I am all good to go.
Fred

water01 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 13, 2011 9:39 am

I have just found this site after having used EasyWeather for 4 months and would like to use my old data from EasyWeather. How do I get in touch with Dane as I do not seem to have the PM facility available to me as a new User(?).

steve · **Posted:** Sat Aug 13, 2011 10:34 am

Now that I've approved your first post, you should be able to send PMs.

water01 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 13, 2011 1:52 pm

Thanks Steve.

Magoo · **Posted:** Wed Dec 28, 2011 10:39 pm

I also have Easy Weather history from a couple of years back.
Can anyone help me to convert this to Cumulus file?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4929242/EasyWeather.dat

Please PM me how to do this after conversion.

dane · **Posted:** Wed Dec 28, 2011 11:17 pm

Magoo wrote:

I also have Easy Weather history from a couple of years back.
Can anyone help me to convert this to Cumulus file?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4929242/EasyWeather.dat

Please PM me how to do this after conversion.

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