Hi,
I would like to create a daily UV and Solar radiation data file, “vantagelog.txt” as is done for dailylog.txt file, is it possible to do this? because now only monthly files are created such as 12025vantagelog.txt
It is possible to do so in WD. Here are WD-generated solar radiation and UV files from yesterday (change the extension to .csv):
20250131-SO.txt (4.7 KB)
20250131-UV.txt (4.7 KB)
Here are instructions I wrote to create custom files in WD (the file will unzip to a .pdf):
Instructions to create files in Weather Display.zip (607.8 KB)
In step 1.a., the last two variables in the text file I created, %VPsolar%,%VPuv%, are the solar radiation and UV values. You can create text and csv files from any of the testtags.txt parameters. The example in my instructions have many parameters besides solar and UV. From this “master” file, I run PowerShell scripts to create several custom csv files for displaying Highcharts graphs.
Hope this helps.
Bill
Thanks for replying,
Is it possible to recreate this format?
day month year hour minute, Solar radation , UV, Daily ET, soil moist, soil temp
1 2 2025 0 0 0.00 0.0 0.4 255.0 100.000
1 2 2025 0 1 0.00 0.0 0.0 255.0 100.000
1 2 2025 0 2 0.00 0.0 0.0 255.0 100.000
1 2 2025 0 3 0.00 0.0 0.0 255.0 100.000
1 2 2025 0 4 0.00 0.0 0.0 255.0 100.000
1 2 2025 0 5 0.00 0.0 0.0 255.0 100.000
1 2 2025 0 6 0.00 0.0 0.0 255.0 100.000
1 2 2025 0 7 0.00 0.0 0.0 255.0 100.000
1 2 2025 0 8 0.00 0.0 0.0 255.0 100.000
1 2 2025 0 9 0.00 0.0 0.0 255.0 100.000
1 2 2025 0 10 0.00 0.0 0.0 255.0 100.000
1 2 2025 0 11 0.00 0.0 0.0 255.0 100.000
1 2 2025 0 12 0.00 0.0 0.0 255.0 100.000
Maybe I misunderstood what you are trying to do. It appears vantagelog.txt is producing the same format as dailylog.txt. So, you want to create a daily vantagelog.txt file instead of monthly?
Yes, as it happens with the dailylog.txt
I see two possibilities:
- Contact Brian to see if he can add a daily vantagelog.txt file to WD or add the UV and Solar data to dailylog.txt.
- Use a script (Python or PowerShell) that runs every day and extracts 24 hours of data from vantagelog.txt to create a daily UV and Solar file.
Others on the forum might have other (better) suggestions.