Thanks, Gary. It's getting late. so I'll try this in the morning. Once again, thanks for your help!
On Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 10:07:04 PM UTC-8, gjr80 wrote: > > Some answers below, as usual it's not just a simple yes/no. > > Gary > > On Thursday, 25 January 2018 15:41:48 UTC+10, loonsailor wrote: >> >> If I am to modify /etc/weewx/weewx.conf, I should stop weewx, back up >> weewx.conf, make the changes you suggest to it, and run wee_database. >> > > Normal rule of thumb is that if you make changes to weewx.conf you need > to stop/start weeWX for the changes to take effect. That is true for weeWX, > but in this case we are running wee_database which will be run as a > completely separate process to weeWX. Also, since wee_database will only > be accessing your wview_archive_fixit.sdb database, weeWX could continue > to run and wee_database could be run on wview_binding and there would be > no database contention (assuming of course that weeWX is running using a > binding other than wview_binding for storing archive data). So chances > are you could leave weeWX running. I would play it safe though and stop > weeWX while running wee_database. > > >> If all goes as planned, I will then have a fixed archive, which I can >> go ahead and combine with my existing weewx archive (I've been running it >> for about a month now), put it in place, go back to the backed up .conf >> file, and restart weewx. Is that right? >> > > By way of 'backed up .conf file' do you mean mean weewx.conf as it was > before you added the wview binding? If so it does not matter, there is no > need to revert to a backed weewx.conf just becasue you added the wview > binding and now want to revert your weewx.conf. You can have dozens of > bindings defined in weewx.conf and weeWX will only use the one you define > at the data_binding config option in [StdArchive] for saving archive data > (you may well have other extensions installed that may use other bindings > for accessing data in other databases but these woudl be defined elsewhere) > > But yes after running --fix-strings on your wview data you should have an > archive that you can merge with your weeWX data, of course providing that > the problem with your wview data was in fact null strings in numeric fields. > > >> BTW, what does weewx do when there are multiple databases defined in >> .conf? If I leave the existing archive, and add the new one as >> wview_archive_sqlite, what does that mean to weewx? >> > > I guess the above comment already answered this, weeWX doesn't care about > unused bindings/databases defined in weewx.conf, weeWX only uses those it > is told to use any others are ignored. So leaving the existing archive data > binding ([[wx_binding]] I expect) and the new one will not be a problem, > the only issue is a cosmetic one of housekeeping; after doing this numerous > times (for whatever reason) you might end up with a lot of unused, > confusing junk in weewx.conf. > > -- 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.
