Version 4.9.0 available

[Tom Keffer]

Some new features, some bug fixes. For the most part, upwardly compatible with earlier releases. See the upgrade guide for the two obscure exceptions.

Available in the usual places.

4.9.0 10/24/2022
Fix problem that create 'ghost' values for VantageVue stations.
Fix problem that causes `leafWet3` and `leafWet4` to be emitted in VP2
stations that do not have the necessary sensors.
Fixes issue #771.

Try waking the Vantage console before giving up on LOOP errors.
Better Vantage diagnostics.
Fixes issue #772.

Add missing 30-day barometer graph to Smartphone skin.
Fixes issue #774.

Fix check for reuse_ssl for Python versions greater than 3.10.
Fixes issue #775.

The utility wee_reports can now be invoked by specifying a --date and --time.
Fixes issue #776.

Allow timestamps that are not integers.
Fixes issue #779.

Add localization file for Traditional Chinese. Thanks to user lyuxingliu!
PR #777.

Don't swallow syntax errors when wee_config is looking for drivers.

Include 'wind' in daily summary if 'windSpeed' is present.

Refine translations for French skin. Thanks to user Pascal!

Allow a custom cipher to be specified for FTP uploads. See option 'cipher'
under [[FTP]].

Ensure that rundir exists and has correct permissions in weewx-multi

Allow auto-provisioning feature of Seasons to work when using a SQL expression
for option data_type in the ImageGenerator. Fixes issue #782.

Allow constants albedo, cn, and cd to be specified when calculating ET.
See the User's Guide. Resolves issue #730.

Fix problem that prevented wee_reports from using a default location
for weewx.conf.

Post location of the configuration file and the top-level module to the station
registry. Thanks to Vince! PR #705.

Fix minor install warning under Python 3.10. Fixes issue #799.

Fix problem where xtypes.ArchiveTable.get_series() does not pass option_dict
on to get_aggregate(). Fixes issue #797

Added copytruncate option to default log rotation configuration.  Thanks to
user sastorsl.  Addresses PR #791.

Update the default and example rules in rsyslog configuration.  The output
from the weewx daemon goes to weewxd.log whereas the output from wee_xxx
utilities goes to weewx.log.  Also added examples of how to deal with
systemd/journald messing with log output.  Addresses PR#788 and PR#790.
Thanks to user sastorsl.

Allow additional aggregation intervals for observation type $wind. In
particular, 'vecdir' and 'vecavg' can be done for aggregation intervals other
than multiples of a day.
Fixes issue #800.

[Tom Keffer]

One glitch that could affect new users running older operating systems. 

Older versions of the Seasons skin plot wind direction over time. Unfortunately, they do this by taking the scalar average of the wind directions, instead of the vector average. For example, directions 350°, 0°, and 10° would average out to 120°, not the 0° you would expect. 

The version of Seasons in V4.9 fixes this problem, but it uses SQL queries that use mathematical functions that were introduced in sqlite in v3.35, which came out about a year and a half ago. Not all versions of sqlite have caught up.

Bottom line: if you're installing a new version of the Seasons skin you could encounter this problem. There are several easy workarounds. Let me know if you have the problem.

MySQL users are not affected.

Cheers,

-tk

[Mark Fraser]

On 25/10/2022 00:13, Tom Keffer wrote:
> One glitch that could affect new users running older operating systems.
>
> Older versions of the Seasons skin plot wind direction over time.
> Unfortunately, they do this by taking the scalar average of the wind
> directions, instead of the vector average. For example, directions 350°,
> 0°, and 10° would average out to 120°, not the 0° you would expect.
>
> The version of Seasons in V4.9 fixes this problem, but it uses SQL
> queries that use mathematical functions that were introduced in sqlite
> in v3.35, which came out about a year and a half ago. Not all versions
> of sqlite have caught up.
>
> Bottom line: if you're installing a new version of the Seasons skin you
> could encounter this problem. There are several easy workarounds. Let me
> know if you have the problem.
>
> MySQL users are not affected.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -tk

This will be a problem for anyone on Debian Bullseye or earlier as they
are still on 3.34. I'm still running Buster due to the camera issues and
that is on 3.27.

[Tom Keffer]

I have just uploaded v4.9.1. For older versions of sqlite, it does the math calculations in Python, instead of SQL.  

Please give it a try.

[salinois]

hi every body,

I installed the version 4.9.1 on my RPi 4b for test, and it works fine.

good job.

Patrick from FRANCE.

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[Patrick Tranchant]

hi every body,

I installed the version 4.9.1 on my RPi 4b for test, and it works fine.

good job.

Patrick from FRANCE.