Thanks Gary, that did the trick! Doesn't take long on my RPi 5 for 19 days in December:
2024-12-19T08:55:33.656223+00:00 weewx5 weewxd[1317867]: INFO weewx.cheetahgenerator: Generated 1 files for report cumulus in 3.50 seconds Cheers, Rory On Thursday, December 19, 2024 at 3:57:23 AM UTC gjr80 wrote: > So you want to build a file with potentially 8928 rows (31 days per month > 288 records per day)? > > If so this should be able to be done solely in a Cheetah template using > just a few lines of code by iterating over the archive records in the > month. Something like (untested): > > #for $record in $month.records > $record.dateTime,$record.outTemp.format(add_label=False),..... > #end for > > Like I said untested and I haven't used record iterators for a long time > but at worst a little finessing should get you there. One thing to note, > report generation time will gradually increase as the month progresses > peaking on the last record of the last day of the month. > > Gary > > On Thursday, 19 December 2024 at 05:55:37 UTC+10 rory.g...@googlemail.com > wrote: > >> Hi, at first I thought this would be quite easy but I'm struggling a bit. >> The background is I need a text file to import into WXSim using the Cumulus >> %Y%mlog.txt format. I created a simple skin that generates the %Y%mlog.txt >> each reporting cycle (5 minutes in my case), but is there a way to append >> the next cycle to the existing file as a new line rather than overwrite it? >> >> My skin.conf looks like this: >> >> [CheetahGenerator] >> encoding = utf8 >> >> [[ToDate]] >> [[[text-data]]] >> template = %Y%mlog.txt.tmpl >> >> [CopyGenerator] >> copy_always = *.txt >> >> [Generators] >> generator_list = weewx.cheetahgenerator.CheetahGenerator, >> weewx.reportengine.CopyGenerator >> >> And the template: >> >> #encoding UTF-8 >> #errorCatcher Echo >> ## +------------------------------------------------------+ >> ## | Cumulus Monthly Output Template | >> ## +------------------------------------------------------+ >> ## | Produces a YYYYmmlog.txt output for import to WXSim | >> ## +------------------------------------------------------+ >> >> >> >> $current.dateTime,$current.outTemp.format(add_label=False),$current.outHumidity.format(add_label=False),$current.dewpoint.format(add_label=False),$current.windSpeed.format(add_label=False),$current.windGust.format(add_label=False),$current.windDir.format(add_label=False),,,$current.barometer.format(add_label=False),$day.rain.sum.format(add_label=False),,,,,,,$current.radiation.format(add_label=False), >> >> Which produces a text file called 202412log.txt: >> >> 18/12/24 19:40:00,6.3,82,3.4,10,37,266,,,982.8,15.4,,,,,,,0, >> >> WXSim can read this, however it only contains a single observation >> period. I would like to append the data to the file until the month is >> complete, then generate a new file for the next month. Any ideas? It will >> likely need some Python which is not my strongpoint, although I can get >> around it a bit... >> >> I'm running WeeWX 5.1 if it makes it easier. TIA >> > -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/7df50acf-ba6f-4c14-8e29-1d6d0406e4acn%40googlegroups.com.
