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I was just wondering if anybody had done this. I am taking delivery of a Vantage Vue next week, and have been running Weather Display for years. But I have got fed up with it. It is overly complicated, I just want to store the records and be able to view them.
So I will be looking to convert the files to Cumulus data files and wondered if there where any hints or tips.

Thanks
Warren

I did look into this briefly a long time ago, but I was unable to find a specification of the WD file format anywhere, so I gave up. I'm not aware of anyone else having done anything.

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OK, well when I have a little time I shall have a look at the WD files, and possibly write a little script to convert them.

WD creates log files on a monthly basis - filename format is mmyyyylg.txt where mm is the month number but NOT zero padded - so Jan 2008 would be 12008lg.txt. These files should be in the WD logfiles directory and the first line contains the field names for the data (just about every weather software package except Cumulus does this btw....)

The fields are space or tab delimited (can't recall which off hand) and, the other issue, the day and month numbers are also not zero padded - so Jan is 1 and Nov 11, which means you can'tprocess them based simply on column numbers.

You can import them into Excel and then export them as CSV files for easier processing - but IIRC you can't just import them into a Cumulus log file - you would need a seperate SQL database or some programs to process the TXT files as you want them displayed.

There is also a CSV file generated -= file name is mmyyyylgcsv.csv - again, the first record contains the field names.

I had my WD records going back to 2002 and have been able to process them without any difficulty.

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OK I had a little spare time this afternoon, so have written a small VBS script to convert the monthly WD files to Cumulus monthly files, Just need to write one now to create the dayfile.txt file from the WD dailylog.txt. Will let you know when it is done. Am I right in thinking that if I place these files within the datafiles directory I can update all the records in Cumulus ?

1.9.1 has a facility to trawl the data logs to fetch the all-time records, and this month's and this year's records, or at least as best it can from the data that's available.

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Warren, once you have some time, could you post the code for that VBScript - I would like to find out if I could write a PHP script instead as I have never used a VBScript editor before (nor do I know if there is such an editor on my computer)...

A VBS script is a standard VB script saved to a file filename.vbs, this is executable by just clicking on it. I have used notepad to script this.


dim oFso,ofile,ostream,oOutfile,txtline,newliner

set ofso=createobject("scripting.filesystemobject")
set ofile=ofso.getfile("22011lg.txt")
set ostream=ofile.openastextstream(1,-2)
set oOutfile=ofso.createtextfile("Feb11log.txt")
do while not ostream.atendofstream
txtline=split(ostream.readline(),";")
if len(txtline(0))=1 then
newliner="0"+txtline(0)+"/"
else
newliner=txtline(0)+"/"
end if
if len(txtline(1))=1 then
newliner=newliner+"0"+txtline(1)+"/"
else
newliner=newliner+txtline(1)+"/"
end if
newliner=newliner+right(txtline(2),2)
if len(txtline(3))=1 then
newliner=newliner+",0"+txtline(3)
else
newliner=newliner+","+txtline(3)
end if
if len(txtline(4))=1 then
newliner=newliner+":0"+txtline(4)
else
newliner=newliner+":"+txtline(4)
end if
newliner=newliner+","+txtline(5)
newliner=newliner+","+txtline(6)
newliner=newliner+","+txtline(7)
newliner=newliner+","+txtline(9)
newliner=newliner+","+txtline(10)
newliner=newliner+","+txtline(11)
newliner=newliner+","+txtline(12)
newliner=newliner+","+txtline(13)
newliner=newliner+","+txtline(8)
newliner=newliner+","+txtline(15)
newliner=newliner+",0.0"
newliner=newliner+",0.0"
newliner=newliner+",0.0"
newliner=newliner+",0.0"
newliner=newliner+","+txtline(16)
newliner=newliner+",0.0"
newliner=newliner+",0.0"
oOutfile.writeline(newliner)
loop


I have only done it for one file so far, but it seems to have work, for when I went into monthly records it did give me the correct information for February this year. As you can see there is some information in the Cumulus file which isn't in the WD file, so have filled with 0.0.

Warren, thank you for the VBScript - I must now find some VB documentation to understand what the script does...

Hi there

I also edited the WD files before running through this script. I removed all spaces and replaced with ";" and also removed any ";" from the start of lines.

I would have done this with code but I work with VI so did it in that.

If you have solar WD stores that data in a separate log, mmyyyyvantagelog.txt.