Clearing database going from Simulator to Vantage

[eolsson]

Hi all

New to weewx, has been setting it up running the Simulator. Now that I'm happy with my settings I wan't to connect my davis vp2 using the vantage driver. When I do that, what happens with the database? I do not wan't to have the simulator records in the database when I start recording real weather. Is there a way to clear the database or does it happen automatically when you change driver?

/Esbjörn

[gjr80]

Hi,

Simple, just stop WeeWX, delete your database file (it will be either /home/weewx/archive/weewx.sdb or /var/lib/weewx/weewx.sdb depending on how you installed WeeWX), connect your VP2 and reconfigure WeeWX to use the vantage driver and finally restart WeeWX. WeeWX will automatically create a new database for you.

Of course if you have customised things or are using MySQL the overall process (stop, delete, reconfigure, restart) is similar but slightly different.

Gary

[eolsson]

Thank you very much. 

/Esbjörn