To simplify things I deleted my last post and combined it with this one.
A couple of years ago I needed to convert about 8 years worth of WeatherLink data over to WeatherCat.
The predecessor to WeatherCat, Lightsoft Weather Center (LWC), has a data importer app that will convert Davis WeatherLink data to LWC. The LWC data files are compatible with WeatherCat. Download here:
https://download.cnet.com/Lightsoft-Weather-Center/3000-2130_4-179028.htmlAt the time I did this, my Mac was running OS X 10.11 El Capitan. I seem to recall either 10.11 not liking LWC or I didn't want LWC installing files on my current system, so I installed OS X 10.6 in VirtualBox and ran LWC there.
To refresh on how it worked, yesterday I installed OS X 10.6 in VirtualBox and ran LWC.
The data importer is accessible in the LWC menu, Tools, LWC Importer. Once selected, a prompt appeared notifying that to run LWC Importer (a separate app), LWC had to be shut down. For quicker access, I extracted the LWC Importer app from the LWC2.dmg and converted some WeatherLink files from 2011, it saved them to /Users/(username)/Library/LWCData/Location1/2011/
After running the importer the following will need to be done to the converted data files:
The files need to be renamed from *_LWC_Data.lw2 to *_WeatherCat.cat, leave the number at the beginning of the filename.
Replace the header (first 9 lines of text) at the beginning of each file with header lines from a WeatherCat data file. I don't remember if this was required in order for WeatherCat to use the converted data files or not, but I did it as a precaution.
Here is what the data converter looks like running on OS X 10.6:
Converted data files:
Ryan Hothersall, oldcolonel, wurzelmac, AlexisT and any other WeatherCat users wanting to import their WeatherLink data:
If you have issues or this seems too complex, let me know, we can make arrangements for you to send your WeatherLink data to me and I'll convert it.