I have installed b8 successfully and note that nothing was changed in my weewx.conf except the addition of the extractors.
On Thursday, July 30, 2020 at 2:08:46 AM UTC-4 gjr80 wrote: > I have released v0.1.0b8 on Github > <https://github.com/gjr80/weewx-gw1000/releases> which: > > - fixes an incorrect mapping of GW1000 field relbarometer that will have > resulted in incorrect barometer and altimeter fields in WeeWX > - changes default field mappings of GW1000 fields rainhour, rainday, > rainweek, rainmonth, rainyear, raintotals and rainevent to hourRain, > dayRain, weekRain, monthRain, yearRain, totalRain and stormRain respectively > - changes default field mapping of GW1000 field uv from uvRadiaition to > uvradiation > - fixes a bug that resulted in battery state mappings not being included > in the default field map displayed with the --default-map command line > option > - adds extractors for all fields from default field map (incl battery > state map) that need an extractor function other than avg > > As b8 includes extractor functions for a number of fields b8 requires > changes to weewx.conf. For this reason the best way to upgrade to or > install b8 is by downloading the extension package and installing using > wee_extension. I will update the manual install instructions on the GW1000 > driver wiki shortly. Upgrading by installing the extension package should > retain any customised settings you may have made to weewx.conf, in any case > a timestamped backup copy of weewx.conf is made by wee_extension and it > might pay to check that any customisations in the [GW1000] stanza have been > retained. > > For those that may have incorrect barometer/altimeter data as a result of > the incorrect relbarometer mapping, users of WeeWX 4.0.0 or later should be > able to recalculate the incorrect data by first deleting the incorrect > barometer and altimeter data from the archive and then running wee_database > using the --calc-missing action. You will then need to rebuild your daily > summaries using --rebuild-daily. i will publish some detailed instructions > later tonite. > > Gary > -- 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/996540e6-1c7c-45e8-a29b-9b43f2718d71n%40googlegroups.com.