Easier way to edit data

[xtommo]

Firstly loved LWC2 and loving WeatherCat...

I would like to see an easier way to edit Data. Sometimes a sensor can go faulty or give a faulty report and if you don't catch it straight away you have to edit hour worth of logs to fix it up.
It would be nice if i could for example select multiple lines of data and zero out the wind speed or any sensor data.

Hopefully that makes sense

Thanks

[bensinep]

I agree. I get periodic data dropouts from my sensor and WeatherCat records them as 10 degrees C. It kind of throws off stats in winter months when the temp is well below 0.

So, either an easier way to edit data or have WeatherCat use the last good value and set a flag or something so you know it had bad data but the data doesn't give you false hi/low readings.

[WCDev]

Thanks for the suggestions folks!

Stu.

[Bull Winkus]

I vote yes for this one, too.

A good way to implement this would be to use your Custom Graphs editor window, allowing the user to choose a series and range to graph, just as in the regular Custom Graphs editor, but with the option to modify data.  After establishing the graph, allow the user to click and drag across the graph to establish a range of data selection with the option to zero out or set to a specified value. Ideally, this would result in an automated log entry.

[embayweather]

I would support the thought as well Stu but add just a teensy weensy little corollary. Could the headings of the View/Edit data be editable themselves. The Auxilliary 1, 2 and 3 headings for extra gauges I would like to change but cannot. I know I should remember what they are but age is getting the better of me and I have a brain like Swiss cheese.
Amongst all your other tasks perhaps if you could find time somewhere.

Best wishes

Mike

[WCDev]

I vote yes for this one, too.

A good way to implement this would be to use your Custom Graphs editor window, allowing the user to choose a series and range to graph, just as in the regular Custom Graphs editor, but with the option to modify data.  After establishing the graph, allow the user to click and drag across the graph to establish a range of data selection with the option to zero out or set to a specified value. Ideally, this would result in an automated log entry.

Yep, this is on the 'things to play with' list - for now the simplest way to do a multiple edit is in a text editor (something like TextWrangler that won't mess the file up).

Cheers,
Stu.

[WCDev]

I would support the thought as well Stu but add just a teensy weensy little corollary. Could the headings of the View/Edit data be editable themselves. The Auxilliary 1, 2 and 3 headings for extra gauges I would like to change but cannot. I know I should remember what they are but age is getting the better of me and I have a brain like Swiss cheese.
Amongst all your other tasks perhaps if you could find time somewhere.

Best wishes

Mike

This one is on the todo list Mike.

Cheers,
Stu.

[Tornado Tim]

Since we are talking about easier ways to edit data, I might as well make a pitch for the potential future of Weathercat.

When it comes to editing data, flat files are very hard to edit especially if there is no delimiter in the file.
Which is why it may be wise to phase Weathercat 2.0 onto a database instead of a flatfile.

Editing data on a database using a query is quite simple and it can be simple in a programming prospective too.

Databases dont necessarily need to have a server installed onto the machine, SQLite is an example that comes to mind.
The reason why I am pitching for the cat to be phased onto a database is a more unified data structure which is easy to import data into it and export out.
This unifies what other meteorological companies do with meteorological data which makes it easy to compare data simply.

Remember, this is not intended to be a proposed Weathecat 1.0 feature, perhaps a version 2.0 instead.

I use databases for my weatherdata (they power the backend of this: http://matangiweather.org/lookback.php )