Hot off the FTP upload! Version 3.7 is ready. Lots of new features and lots of little bug fixes!
Get it in the usual place <http://weewx.com/downloads/>. Weewx has grown explosively over the last few years. We now average well over 3,000 downloads a month and dominate our niche: Unix weather software. With its open source license, support for a wide variety of weather hardware, and its ability to run on inexpensive platforms such as the Raspberry Pi, weewx is the most common choice for hobbyists world wide. Many thanks to our growing and enthusiastic user base! Hope you enjoy this new release. -Tom & Matthew & Gary Change log The tag $current now uses the record included in the event NEW_ARCHIVE_RECORD, rather than retrieve the last record from the database. This means you can use the tag $current for observation types that are in the record, but not necessarily in the database. Fixes issue #13. Most aggregation periods now allow you to go farther in the past. For example, the tag $week($weeks_ago=1) would give you last week. You can also now specify the start and end of an aggregation period, such as $week.start and $week.end. Can now do SummaryByDay (as well as SummaryByMonth and SummaryByYear). NB: This can generate *lots* of files --- one for every day in your database! Leaving this undocumented for now. Fixes issue #185. When doing hardware record generation, the engine now augments the record with any additional observation types it can extract out of the accumulators. Fixes issue #15. It's now possible to iterate over every record within a timespan. Fixes issue #182. Use schema_name = hardware_name pattern in sensor map for drivers that support extensible sensor suites, including the drivers for cc3000, te923, wmr300, wmr100, wmr200, wmr9x8 Simplified sensor mapping implementation for wmr100 and wmr200 drivers. For recent weewx releases, these are the default mappings for wmr200: 3.6.0: in:0, out:1, e2:2, e3:3, ..., e8:8 hard-coded 3.6.1: in:0, out:1, e1:2, e2:3, ..., e7:8 hard-coded 3.7.0: in:0, out:1, e1:2, e2:3, ..., e7:8 sensor_map and these are default mappings for wmr100: 3.6.2: in:0, out:1, e1:2, e2:3, ..., e7:8 hard-coded 3.7.0: in:0, out:1, e1:2, e2:3, ..., e7:8 sensor_map Enabled battery status for every remote T/H and T sensor in wmr100 driver. Enabled heatindex for each remote T/H sensor in wmr200 driver. Fixed inverted battery status indicator in wmr200 driver. Fixed 'Calculatios' typo in wmr100, wmr200, wmr9x8, and wmr300 drivers. Fixed usb initialization issues in the wmr300 driver. Added warning in wmr300 driver when rain counter reaches maximum value. Decode heatindex and windchill from wmr300 sensor outputs. Report the firmware version when initializing the cc3000 driver. Fixed bug in vantage driver that would prevent console wake up during retries when fetching EEPROM vales. Thanks to user Dan Begallie! The vantage driver no longer emits values for non-existent sensors. As a result, LOOP and archive packets are now much smaller. If this works out, other drivers will follow suit. Partial fix of issue #175. The vantage driver now emits the barometer trend in LOOP packets as field 'trendIcon'. The engine now logs locale. Additional information if a TERM signal is received. Removed the site-specific "Pond" extensions from the Standard skin. The Standard skin now includes plots of outside humidity. Fixes issue #181. Fixed reference to index.html.tmpl in the xstats example. Changed algorithm for calculating ET to something more appropriate for hourly values (former algorithm assumed daily values). Fixes issue #160. Fixed bug in Celsius to Fahrenheit conversion that affected pressure conversions in uwxutils.py, none of which were actually used. Fixed bug that was introduced in v3.6.0, which prevented wee_reports from working for anything other than the current time. Documented the experimental anti-alias feature, which has been in weewx since v3.1.0. Fixes issue #6. Fixed problem where multiple subsections under [SummaryBy...] stanzas could cause multiple copies of their target date to be included in the Cheetah variable $SummaryByYear and $SummaryByMonth. Fixes issue #187. Moved examples out of bin directory. Eliminated experimental directory. Reinforce the use of user directory, eliminate use of examples directory. Renamed xsearch.py to stats.py. OS uptime now works for freeBSD. Thanks to user Bill Richter! PR #188. Broke out developer's notes into a separate document. Added @media CSS for docs to improve printed/PDF formatting. Thanks to user Tiouck! Added a 0.01 second delay after each read_byte in ws23xx driver to reduce chance of data spikes caused by RS232 line contention. Thanks lionel.sylvie! The observation windGustDir has been removed from wmr100, wmr200, te923, and fousb drivers. These drivers were simply assigning windGustDir to windDir, since none of the hardware reports an actual windGustDir. Calculation of aggregates over a period of one day or longer can now respect any change in archive interval. To take advantage of this feature, you will have to apply an update to your daily summaries. This can be done using the tool wee_database, option --update. Refer to the ‘Changes to daily summaries’ section in the Upgrade Guide to determine whether you should update or not. Fixes issue #61. Max value of windSpeed for the day is now the max archive value of windSpeed. Formerly, it was the max LOOP value. If you wish to patch your older daily summaries to interpret max windSpeed this way, use the tool wee_database with option --update. Fixes issue #195. The types of accumulators, and the strategies to put and extract records out of them, can now be specified by config stanzas. This will be of interest to extension writers. See issue #115. Fixed battery status label in acurite driver: changed from txTempBatteryStatus to outTempBatteryStatus. Thanks to user manos! Made the lowBattery example more robust - it now checks for any known low battery status, not just txBatteryStatus. Thanks to user manos! Added info-level log message to calculate_rain so that any rain counter reset will be logged. Added better logging for cc3000 when the cc3000 loses contact with sensors for extended periods of time. How long to wait before retrying after a bad uploader login is now settable with option retry_login. Fixes issue #212. The test suites now use dedicated users 'weewx1' and 'weewx2'. A shell script has been included to setup these users. A more formal exception hierarchy has been adopted for the internal database library weedb. See weedb/NOTES.md. The weedb Connection and Cursor objects can now be used in a "with" clause. Slightly more robust mechanism for decoding last time a file was FTP'd. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
