wviewweather migration and v5

[eric greenwade]

Quick question about migrating from wviewweather (5.19.0) to weewx. Somewhere i saw that v5 is supposed to be more resilient wrt bad db values than previous versions? As I have ~250 MB of wvieweather data (15 years @ 5 minute intervals) of which there are known to be a fair number of bad db values, I'd like the increased robustness of v5. So:

1) Is there a known release date for v5?

2) Should I install v4.10 and then upgrade when v5 released, or wait for v5?

Highly motivated to get this done. The (CentOS 6) system on which wviewweather is running had one disk of the system RAID pair die, well over a year ago!!! I realize I'm on borrowed time. I have a new (hardware RAID) system on which I'm planning to run weewx, and hence the questions above wrt timing.

Thoughts and suggestions, or the helpful variety,  welcome!

-eric

[vince]

1) Tom said on 8/31 it would be some weeks after the rainy season returns to Oregon, so that gets you out to mid/late October at the earliest.  FWIW, there haven't even been any packages released for the betas for non-debian(ish) operating systems.

2) you could go either way, so let your os selection and timing needs help you decide.   The v5 betas for 'pip' installations work fine for 20 sites so far according to the weewx registered stations map, but that wouldn't help you on a centos6 system.  You need a modern os with python3 support for v5.

I guess my suggestion would be to set up a temporary VM or raspberry pi or the like to try to do the data conversion and cleanup since you said you have a lot of bad values in your legacy db.  Either v4 or v5 should suffice for that.

[eric greenwade]

Thanks Vince!

Sorry, I should have been more clear. The old, dying system, is CentOS6, all the new systems are Rocky 9.2. Two are installed from scratch, one is the sorta script driven upgrade from Rocky 8. I have no Debian-ish systems. I’ll put latest stable on one of the new from scratch systems and give the clean up a try.

Just wish it was as easy wrt Rocky 9.2 window managers. For a long time KDE user, Gnome is causes me fits. ;-)

Thanks again for the suggestions!

-eric

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[vince]

FWIW, the v5 beta pip3 installation works fine on rocky9.  I've played a little in a VM to verify that.

[eric greenwade]

I’ll give pup3 a go on one of the Rocky 9.2 systems.  Thanks again!!

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On Sep 9, 2023, at 16:03, vince <vince...@gmail.com> wrote:

FWIW, the v5 beta pip3 installation works fine on rocky9.  I've played a little in a VM to verify that.

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[Tom Keffer]

If you are referring to issue #695, that change was introduced in V4.4.

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