Wind direction resolution after update of WeeWX

[Tom]

Hi,

I have updated WeeWX from version 3.8 to the current version. Now I have the problem that the wind direction is only written into the SQLite database with a resolution of 22.5 degrees. I took over the old configuration file weewx.conf during the update.

Previously, the wind direction was saved in 1 degree steps. What should I change so that the resolution of the wind direction is correct again?

Tom

[Tom Keffer]

What type of hardware? 

Did you change the kind of record generation?

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[Tom]

I use a Davis Vantage Pro 2  at my Raspberry Pi 2.

The only thing that I had to change was to create a new SQLite database (weewx2.sdb in the config file). WeeWX issued an error message that the format of the database was no longer correct. Then it automatically creates a new DB and rewrote all the data that he could read from the console. Except for the wind direction, all data are correct.

[Tom Keffer]

OK. See this thread.

If you want WeeWX to calculate an average wind direction over the archive period, then use software record generation.

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[Tom]

It works, thank you very much! "hardware" was set in the new config. After I switched this to "software", the wind direction data was displayed in 1 degree resolution. I wasn't even aware that the Davis Vantage Pro can only save the wind direction in 22.5 degrees resolution. It's much better with WeeWX. Thank you for your help and the development of WeeWX.