Good stuff! So far I've been upgrading through the beta steps and b14 is working great. I haven't extended the schema yet. If I run wee_database --rebuld-daily will I lose the exact timestamps in my existing archive_day_* tables? I'm thinking not since it's not dropping daily, but I wanted to ask.
On Saturday, March 7, 2020 at 12:37:05 PM UTC-5, vince wrote: > > I switched my weewx box running the beta over to the new extended schema. > This is great stuff. > > Here's an example of what you can do with it. This is a grafana > dashboard overlaying maxSolarRad as calculated by weewx with sensor > readings from three different WeatherFlow stations. It's more data for the > vendor to help tweak their sensors 'continuous learning' tunings. (I'm a > beta tester) > > New weewx systems running v4 will get the new extended schema by default. > > Existing weewx systems have a few steps to update to the new schema, if > you choose to do so: > > - stop weewx > - wee_database --reconfigure > - wee_database --rebuld-daily > - copy the modified db into place > - start weewx > > The two wee_database commands take quite some time depending on your > hardware and amount of data. On my Seagate Dockstar (super old pogoplug > clone basically with all ram used) it took over 90 minutes to reconfigure > the db. I have 11 years of data however, so it's a lot of records. > > When I did the same thing in a VM running on my i3 NUC and it took only 3 > minutes. The rebuild_daily also took 3 minutes there. I then copied the > file back to my wimpy weewx system and it ran just fine. > > Bottom line, throw hardware at the conversion if you can, if you have lots > of old data. > > > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/045f273b-cf14-4c2c-8844-6c768e2476e5%40googlegroups.com.
