Import Wind Direction from Vantage Pro2

[shvman]

I've got some years of data as text files exported from WeatherLink software.  I notice that my data have wind direction specified as 16 different 'compass directions' (N, NNE, NE, ENE, E, etc) not as 'degree-compass' numerical values.  The Weewx Import Utility apparently only imports degree units.   

I wonder if anyone else has had this problem, and how you handled it?

I did attempt an import without specifying Wind Direction and my Monthly Reports show 90 degrees as the dominate wind gust direction for all days.  

"New data" in WeeWx from my Raspberry Pi shows degree compass directions for dominate wind direction, so the Monthly Reports constructed by WeeWx are correct and in compass degrees.   

I see no way to get compass degrees from my version of WeatherLink (5.8).  I realize that it's quite old.  

Thanks, js

[gjr80]

Hi,

You are correct in that wee_import can only import numeric wind directions. Changing wee_import to handle cardinal, ordinal etc directions should be easy enough, unfortunately other commitments mean I won’t be able to get to that until September.

Gary

[shvman]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.  Thought it was not possible to import directional strings..  Wish I could do this myself.  If you think of it and have some time in the future AND it's not a big deal, I think it would help those of us who are dumping Vantage software on old Windows boxes and moving our stations to Linux. 

BTW, the 'wee_import' program works great with a CSV file.  All my other data was successfully imported on a 'dry run'.  This is one of the best and most completely documented programs I've ever seen.

I'll hold up on this project and do the many other things I got hanging here. 

Thanks again, jjs