weewx output plugin/extension for WXSIM weather simulator?

[Christian Peters]

Hi,

I had a look at

WXSIM Weather Simulator

and it's quite interesting. You can simulate and run forcasts with data retrieved from the internet and your local weather station data.

The import format are .wrk files and .txt files from Weather Display. I run weewx with a vantage pro on Linux.

Does anybody run this setup and feed wxsim with data grabbed by weewx? Is there an extension to export to WXSIM already available!?

Thanks for any information!

Regards,

Christian

[vince]

On Thursday, January 3, 2019 at 11:40:20 AM UTC-8, Christian Peters wrote:

I had a look at

WXSIM Weather Simulator

and it's quite interesting. You can simulate and run forcasts with data retrieved from the internet and your local weather station data.

The import format are .wrk files and .txt files from Weather Display. I run weewx with a vantage pro on Linux.

Does anybody run this setup and feed wxsim with data grabbed by weewx? Is there an extension to export to WXSIM already available!?

You can probably export about any .txt file format you can think of via a cheetah template, but without seeing what WXSIM expects as input, it's impossible to guess really.   Seems like an interesting program, albeit pretty expensive and (shudder) Windows only.... 

[Christian Peters]

Vince,

yes....quite interesting (but yes: Win only).

I found some information in the quickstart guide:

"

The Local Station import has settings for where WXSIMATE should look for your data. If you are using Weather Display, the files it’s looking for are log files, such as 12017lg.txt (for January, 2007) and 12017vantagelog.txt (if you have a solar radiation sensor). Enter the directory (but not the file name) in the box. A similar situation exists if you have Davis WeatherLink, from which WXSIMATE can read the .wlk files (as is the case in the screen shot above), Virtual Weather Station (dbase.csv files), or Cumulus (like Jan17log.txt).

"

Maybe I can ask the developer what format the program want's to see? .csv and Cumulus seems to be maybe a format which weewx could provide?

Regards,

Christian

[pmcg...@gmail.com]

The Cumulus Wiki shows the format of their monthly log files, if you generated a similar report it could work.

https://cumuluswiki.wxforum.net/a/Monthly_log_files

[Christian Peters]

Hm...

yes....there is the 'crt' extension which emitts a cumulus style file, but not a monthly report but a realtime.txt.....

[Ville Helander]

Hi Christian!

Did you get anythink working after this? 

Is there way to enhance the crt extension to create monthly files also?

Or is weewx-wd better option?

-Ville-

[Russell Swan]

Add me to the list of users who would find this adaptation useful.