New YouTube help videos for setting up WD :)

what happened to your data to loose it like that?

Brian, really wish I knew. Over 5 years of recent good data, but that huge missing chunk early on. As mentioned, I remember having to get the data from WU day by day (they don’t offer getting a full month at a time, or at least not the last time I looked), then combining that into one monthly file, etc., etc. It’s the etc., etc., that I’ve forgotten how to do.

Thanks.

I am going to do that video next…
but I am thinking I could automate that process…in WD…in an added function…or even a separate .exe…which you would leave running to do its thing…good idea?

Absolutely! Anything you can do to make it easier on this old withering brain will be most appreciated! :smiley:

Just discovered the YouTube videos. Nice job Brian! =D>

I have added a new wunderground import function, that is all automatic, to import a whole month of data (or selected days (this needs manual work after))
to this new version
http://www.weather-display.com/downloadfiles/weatherdisplaytest.zip
build 307

(see under action, import…wunderground csv import)

do back up the month/data file you are importing for first
only tested with my data…

Got 307, Brian. Will let you know.

Thanks!!

just to note that if you are using the function to fill in missing data for a month of data you have already, then its a bit more complicated
you would need to back up the existing logfile
then once you have done the import, slot in the new created logfile file (for that month) into the back up, where the missing data is, and then use action, convert WD logfiles to data files

Problems (of course).

The file for 62010lg.txt imported fine from WU. However, the data in it seems to be incorrect; the 34276.701 entry in column 9). Compare with 52010lg.txt which was properly loaded by WD way back then. The table display at http://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KAZPHOEN59#history/tdata/s20100601/e20100601/mdaily appears to be OK. Did I miss ticking a box in the setup?

Also in test.jpg the text overrun in the upper circled item (assume it’s the same data as in the lower circled item). However, after clicking the convert log to graph button that file is nowhere to be found.

Thanks.


52010lg.txt (560 Bytes)

62010lg.txt (738 Bytes)

it worked OK here with my metric wunderground data…but I have not tested with non metric data…
what is your wunderground ID …and I will test/check here

KAZPHOEN59 (it’s in the link I posted - :wink: ).

Thanks.

post a snippet of what shows in the file
wudownloaddata.txt

also try a new update
http://www.weather-display.com/downloadfiles/weatherdisplaytest.zip

This is the entire file. Apparently does a day at a time and then the pieces on the fly.

Thanks.


wudownloaddata.txt (30.1 KB)

Using new WD I did another download (snip attached). Then did a convert log to data. That gave me 2 files - month62010.inf and month62010direction3.inf. Steps from here?

New download window is missing the convert buttons, etc. Has just the download area on the right side. Just for testing I suspect?

Thanks.


62010lg.txt (1.23 KB)

its all automatic
the conversion is done
thats why there is a .inf data file
you should see data after selecting that converted month under view ,av/ext

when I do it here, I get each day being downloaded and adding to the data in the window (which scrolls)
once that has finished you should have a logfile with all the data in it for the whole month
and that logfile us converted to data file at the end

there is a problem though where wunderground must use cookies…it downloads as metric for me (and so it works for me by ticking metric)
but it must be downloading as non metric for you

what I could do is add another function to convert that downloaded data (force a convert) (the wudownloaddata.txt file)
the other issue is irrregular time stamps periods in your wunderground data…not easy to pad it out to nice 1 minute interval

Downloading the data works as you described above.

My first ‘missing’ month of data from WU contains 87,343 lines in 62010lg.txt! What appears to be good data uploaded every 5 minutes (but not always exactly on the ‘5’) is on WU for 30 days, but that’s not the way it shown in the attached - only 18 days and funky numbers with a lot missing. I can zip and email you the lg.txt if you like.

Thanks for the extra work on this - most appreciated.


there are a few problems:
it looks like WD is getting confused between metric and non metric data
the other problem is with the padding out of the data…the logfile is ending up with too many data lines…and so when its converted to the data file, you end up with the missing days
(I did not have this problem with my own data import though)
post a snippet of the created logfile

Short ship. Also emailed a zip of the complete file.

Thanks.


62010lg.txt (19.5 KB)