bad strike count data 4,000+ strikes, how to remove from database or ignore such data in charts

[Kevin Crivelli]

I'm not sure how or why it happened but today around 3:25pm I received a strike count of over 4,000 strikes. Is there a way to go into the database and remove this entry? or perhaps I can add a correction in the corrections section if lightning_strike_count is < 4,000 = none or something?

thanks for any help on this matter. really odd

[Kevin Crivelli]

there were 3 entries over 3,000 strikes in a matter of minutes that pushed my count to 11,970 for the day. There has to be a way to remove those entries. please let me know if anyone knows how.

[Kevin Crivelli]

I was able to delete the entries from the database using the guide provided at https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/Cleaning%20up%20old%20'bad'%20data however, when I got to the section for cleaning up the daily summaries I ran into an error with the commands provided

wee_database weewx.conf --drop-daily and wee_database weewx.conf --rebuild-daily gave me this error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/weewx/wee_database", line 1168, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/share/weewx/wee_database", line 187, in main
    config_path, config_dict = weecfg.read_config(options.config_path, args)
  File "/usr/share/weewx/weecfg/__init__.py", line 146, in read_config
    config_path = find_file(config_path, args,
  File "/usr/share/weewx/weecfg/__init__.py", line 117, in find_file
    raise IOError("%s is not a file" % file_path)
OSError: weewx.conf is not a file

[Rainer Lang]

you should read and apply the proper synthax:

try wee_database --help
and apply ....
when you mention weewx.conf then as --config=/etc/weewx/weewx.conf
if you have only one database and one respective weewx.conf, you don't need to mention it (but you can, however, then correctly)

(sudo) wee_database --drop-daily
and
(sudo) weew_database --rebuild-daily
should suffice

if you want to mention weewx.conf, then:
(sudo) wee_database --drop-daily --config=/etc/weewx/weewx.conf
etc

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[Kevin Crivelli]

Rainer, that worked. I had figured it out just before you'd sent that message. I just had to add the full path for weewx.conf to the command. "/etc/weewx/weewx.conf"

Everything is back to normal. Thank you!