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If you were archiving your Easyweather.dat files, you may need to repeat the whole above process for futher source files, until you have the whole period you want. When I did this, I tried to merge the exported files before creating the Cumulus logs, but dealing with 2 full years of frequent pre-Cumulus observations meant I had a massive spreadsheet with almost a million cells, and it made separation into day by day or month by month for feeding into the Cumulus logs more difficult. | If you were archiving your Easyweather.dat files, you may need to repeat the whole above process for futher source files, until you have the whole period you want. When I did this, I tried to merge the exported files before creating the Cumulus logs, but dealing with 2 full years of frequent pre-Cumulus observations meant I had a massive spreadsheet with almost a million cells, and it made separation into day by day or month by month for feeding into the Cumulus logs more difficult. | ||
==Using EasyWeather.dat file as current input== | ==Using 'EasyWeather.dat' file as current input== | ||
As an alternative to above (that was for transfer of historic observations), Cumulus has the option to ''read the latest'' observations (the last line only) directly from an easyweather.dat file (see Cumulus help for how to fill in the station configuration screen) and process these. You might want to do this, perhaps for testing purposes, on a short term basis, but it is better to select the Fine Offset input for normal purposes (again see Cumulus help). As at version 1.9.3, Cumulus is not able to accept easyWeatherPlus.dat as an input. | As an alternative to above (that was for transfer of historic observations), Cumulus has the option to ''read the latest'' observations ('''the last line only''') directly from an easyweather.dat file (see Cumulus help for how to fill in the station configuration screen) and process these. You might want to do this, perhaps for testing purposes, on a short term basis, but it is better to select the 'Fine Offset' input (this is via USB) for normal operational purposes (again see Cumulus help for station configuration screen). As at version 1.9.3, Cumulus is not able to accept 'easyWeatherPlus.dat' as an input. | ||
(You can view ''easyweather.dat'' like any text file either using a text file editor like Notepad or by using a database file viewer). | (You can view ''easyweather.dat'' like any text file either using a text file editor like Notepad or by using a database file viewer). | ||
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Steve Loft has contributed the following (in case people with non Fine Offset stations wish to create data in this format for input to Cumulus) to the forum (http://sandaysoft.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4344) see that forum thread for more details: | Steve Loft has contributed the following (in case people with non Fine Offset stations wish to create data in this format for input to Cumulus) to the forum (http://sandaysoft.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4344) see that forum thread for more details: | ||
Whilst Cumulus does not use the station date and time fields when reading a Fine Offset weather station via USB; when reading easyweather.dat (or equivalent format input), Cumulus does read the date and time fields, and checks that they have changed before using new data from the file. | |||
Here's the format of the easyweather.dat file, with the fields Cumulus uses in bold: | Here's the format of the 'easyweather.dat' file, with the fields Cumulus uses in bold: | ||
easyweather.dat fields: | easyweather.dat fields: | ||
