More Missing History

 Making some progress in possibly restoring the bulk of my station history. I have been uploading data to Weather Underground since the beginning (2008) and found there is a couple ways to get data back from them. I have downloaded my history in a series of CSV files, merged them together, and manipulated the data to match up with the Wview/Weewx archive database. The biggest issue was converting date time back from YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS to Unix Epoch time. I've made some progress and imported the CSV to SQLite, so things may be looking up. Still a bit of work to do.

Missing History

 Well I guess I really screwed up. Looks like I lost my weather history from 2010-2014. I had thought that I copied to wview archive file from my Ubuntu PC, but apparently the one I copied was an older one from 2009. It was in the location described as the place where Wview archives were stored, but I guess the location moved depending on what version of Wview was installed. I had looked at the data briefly, and saw data from 2009, so I thought I was good. But, still it all could have been avoided if I didn't decide the give Linux Mint a try on the old PC. I should have waited until I knew for sure I didn't need any files from that machine. I wonder if there is a way to extract data back from Wunderground. At least daily min/max values.

CSS Changes

 As far as I can tell, the CSS for Bootstrapped is whacked. Probably for a good reason, but it is near impossible to edit like a normal stylesheet. I had to create a new stylesheet to override the styles I wanted to change. I tried to use Firebug inside Firefox, but that apparently also had trouble with the stylesheet. I couldn't get it to work the way I usually do. Anyway, I eventually got things the way I want, for now. It is a color scheme I have used before and is to my liking. Now I need to fin out why my much of my weather history is missing.

Getting the details worked out (Feb. 12, 2015)

 After a few days of sorting things out, I think things are running fairly well now. It took a while to figure out how to get the gauges to show US units with the proper divisions. Finding where the code was that controls the date format of the graphs took some time too. I had been running WView on Ubuntu for several years. I had to reboot things about once a month due to the USB converter issues with the Davis unit. But a desire to switch to a Raspberry Pi was completed a few weeks ago, and the instances of USB problems increased. A real solution could not be found in the WView forums,and though a solution is likely possible via WView, I did not expect to see that happen. Weewx may be less prone, and a simple solution seems to be indicated in the User Guide. We'll see. No problems after several days of running.

New Design Rain Collector (Feb. 12, 2015)

 I saw on the Davis Instruments website that they have a new design rain collector. This has been sorely needed. The two main problems with it were birds landing on the rim of the collector and dropping seeds and various other debris in to the collector. Eventually, it will plug up the hole, as it is shaped like a funnel. There was a debris shield, but it was inadequate. Mine disappeared. Either a bird took it, or it blew away in to the field. It was light and nothing held it in place. So eventually, the collector will clog up and the rain reading would be incorrect, and the collector would need to be cleaned out, which might be every two weeks in the summer. I also had to put a kludgy ring of chicken wire around the collector to disuade birds from landing there. Sometimes worked, sometimes not. The new design has an improved debris filter and serious pokers to discourage bird landings. I have one ordered.