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*Open resulting file in a text editor and see hints in [[Monthly log files]] on how to convert between formats. | *Open resulting file in a text editor and see hints in [[Monthly log files]] on how to convert between formats. | ||
*For [[dayfile.txt]], you can create missing data from the newly created monthly log files, but you still may wish to insert breaks at rollover time in your raw EasyWeather table, possibly adding calculation of maximua or minima to such meteorological day groups, so you can scan though each day to check what has been created in dayfile.txt and edit as required. | *For [[dayfile.txt]], you can create missing data from the newly created monthly log files, but you still may wish to insert breaks at rollover time in your raw EasyWeather table, possibly adding calculation of maximua or minima to such meteorological day groups, so you can scan though each day to check what has been created in dayfile.txt and edit as required. | ||
==Using EasyWeather data for testing purposes== | |||
As an alternative to above, you can extract the observations directly from the Fine Offset database (''easyweather.dat'' can be read like any text file by a text file editor like Notepad or by a database file viewer). | |||
Steve has contributed the following to the forum (http://sandaysoft.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4344) see that forum thread for more details: | |||
This is to document the fact that Cumulus now reads the date and time fields, and checks that they have changed before using the data from the file. | |||
Here's the format of the easyweather.dat file, with the fields Cumulus uses in bold: | |||
easyweather.dat fields: | |||
0 - Record no | |||
1 - Transfer date | |||
2 - Transfer time | |||
'''3 - Reading date''' | |||
'''4 - Reading time''' | |||
5 - Interval | |||
'''6 - Indoor Hum''' | |||
'''7 - Indoor Temp''' | |||
'''8 - Outdoor Hum''' | |||
'''9 - Outdoor Temp''' | |||
'''10 - dew point''' | |||
'''11 - wind chill''' | |||
12 - abs pressure | |||
'''13 - rel pressure''' | |||
'''14 - wind average''' | |||
15 - wind average bft | |||
'''16 - wind gust''' | |||
17 - wind gust bft | |||
18 - wind direction number | |||
'''19 - wind direction text''' (N, ENE etc, converted to a bearing as an integer) | |||
20 - rain ticks | |||
21 - rain total | |||
22 - rain since last reading | |||
'''23 - rain in last hour''' (used as rain rate) | |||
24 - rain last 24 hours | |||
25 - rain last 7 days | |||
26 - rain last 30 days | |||
'''27 - rain last year''' (used as rain 'counter' to determine other totals) | |||
=Memory Map= | =Memory Map= | ||
Revision as of 11:56, 17 January 2013
Many of the entry level weather stations can be classified as "EasyWeather" or "FineOffset"; they are rebadged or generic models of the device produced by FineOffSet Electronics
The software shipped with the device is EasyWeather and while it peforms its role of reading and storing data from the weather station, it is quite limiting and inflexible.
Of course, most users switch to Cumulus and stop using EasyWeather.
Simply for reference, below are some useful technical links on the EasyWeather format
The File Format
Easy weather stores all its data in easyweather.dat. The file format for this has been described in detail here
Transferring data from EasyWeather to Cumulus
If you need to import EasyWeather data from a period before you started using Cumulus, then close Cumulus and run EasyWeather, in that use the History option on the Record menu.
- Select 'user defined' in Search Conditions box. Select a start time before you got your weather station, leave end time at default of today.
- Click Export button, tick Header, choose as Separator: the symbol that is used to separate fields in your Monthly log files.
- Click Export button below the separator, complete the 'Save as ...' for a text file, and wait a couple of minutes (depending on size of file).
- Open resulting file in a text editor and see hints in Monthly log files on how to convert between formats.
- For dayfile.txt, you can create missing data from the newly created monthly log files, but you still may wish to insert breaks at rollover time in your raw EasyWeather table, possibly adding calculation of maximua or minima to such meteorological day groups, so you can scan though each day to check what has been created in dayfile.txt and edit as required.
Using EasyWeather data for testing purposes
As an alternative to above, you can extract the observations directly from the Fine Offset database (easyweather.dat can be read like any text file by a text file editor like Notepad or by a database file viewer).
Steve has contributed the following to the forum (http://sandaysoft.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4344) see that forum thread for more details:
This is to document the fact that Cumulus now reads the date and time fields, and checks that they have changed before using the data from the file. Here's the format of the easyweather.dat file, with the fields Cumulus uses in bold:
easyweather.dat fields:
0 - Record no
1 - Transfer date
2 - Transfer time
3 - Reading date
4 - Reading time
5 - Interval
6 - Indoor Hum
7 - Indoor Temp
8 - Outdoor Hum
9 - Outdoor Temp
10 - dew point
11 - wind chill
12 - abs pressure
13 - rel pressure
14 - wind average
15 - wind average bft
16 - wind gust
17 - wind gust bft
18 - wind direction number
19 - wind direction text (N, ENE etc, converted to a bearing as an integer)
20 - rain ticks
21 - rain total
22 - rain since last reading
23 - rain in last hour (used as rain rate)
24 - rain last 24 hours
25 - rain last 7 days
26 - rain last 30 days
27 - rain last year (used as rain 'counter' to determine other totals)
Memory Map
This page describes in some detail the data records produced by the Fine Offset device
Thanks to Jim Easterbrook for all his work on pulling this data together http://www.jim-easterbrook.me.uk/
