Only use wee_import without connecting a weather station

[Stein Arne Storslett]

Is there a way to only run the weewx database with data through "wee_import" without connecting a weather station?

I.e. just producing the web pages / reports.

Re another thread I have issues getting weewx to connect to my weather station console, the Cotech Weather Station sold by ClasOhlson in the nordics, Europe.

However I've been able to produce data via the station's (somewhat arcane) software WeatherHome so I want to create the reports based on that.

[Graham Eddy]

perhaps consider the provided ‘fileparse’ driver - see ~weewx/examples/fileparse/readme.txt

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[Stein Arne Storslett]

Thank you, I've been reading up on fileparse.

The input for "fileparse" has to be key=value so one would have to get a continuous update into the file.

As I'm receiving data off site this would be an issue - I can't expect - not consistently - a stream of updates.

Second, the data I'm receiving now comes as a CSV, so I would have to rewrite into individual events, or just tap into the "Device" table and send that.

Third, there does not seem to be any unit conversion, "wee_import" does support this.

So as I appreciate the feedback, and I really hope it will be useful for somebody else down the line, it does not quite suit my use case.

However, by experimenting I've found out that I don't really need weewx to be running.

"wee_import" will happily create the database - with input from weewx.conf and "wee_reports" will create the appropriate reports.

So to answer my own question.

1. Install weewx
2. Configure weewx.conf
3. Disable weewx from starting (systemctl disable weewx ; systemctl stop weewx) ymmv
4. Configure the "wee_import" input config file
5. Run "wee_import" to import
6. Run "wee_reports" to create the reports.

I wrapped the latter in a script which I can "sudo" from the remote source which ships the logs to my server.