Custom Tags for Soil Temp Records? (or extra sensor records)

I’m trying to log my passive wine cellar temperature over the long term. It doesn’t look like I can log the “extra 1-wire sensor” data long term (can I?), so I was thinking of using an extra 1-wire sensor as soil temp, then renaming soil in a custom web page. Is that the only way to record long term data (inc records) on extra sensors?

I noticed you show records (daily, monthly, & all time) for soil temp, but I can’t find the custom tag names anywhere that are associated with those. Can you provide those?

Thanks!

Rich

Well, Ive tried every possible combo for soil temp record (Mo, Yr, all-time) custom tags. Has anyone figured them out? They must be there somewhere…

hi
a soil temperature will show up as a extra temperature via the custom tags…
(should do)
so you will just need to find which extra temperature sensor it is

i do have a logfile for the davis VP to store extra data like that

and if you have a dallas 1 wire station, then there is a dallas 1 wire log, for extra temperature
otherwise you could set to create your own custom log file, to log the soil temperature, using a custom tag for extra temperature or a dallas 1 wire extra temperature
try that

I acually didn’t present my question very clearly, and I’m just learning the WD ropes… I am using 1-wire sensors, and I see the extra sensor data being logged properly.

Where I’m stuck is that I am building a custom HTML web site, and I’m reporting daily min/max, then monthly, then all time (or YTD). I have found the custom tags for daily, monthly, and yearly temps, baro, humidity, etc.

But…I can’t find custom tags for “extra sensor” average/extreme/records (seems they aren’t retained and mapped to a custom tag). So… I thought i could record my wine cellar temp as soil, for example, then rename it on the web page. However, I can’t find custom tags for soil other than %maxsoiltemp% and %minsoiltemp%.

Ideally, one piece of the custom page would look something like this (minus the html formatting!):

Cellar Temperatures min max


Today 55F 56F
Month To Date 52 57
on Day 9/9 9/24
Year To Date 52 59
on Day 2/14 8/16

So, the best solution would be to have custom tags that look something like this:

%dallasextratemp1low% - Today’s Low
%mrecorddallasextratemp1low% - Month to date Low
%mrecorddallasextratemp1lowtime% - Time of MTD Low
%yrecorddallasextratemp1low% - YTD low
%yrecorddallasextratemp1lowtime% - YTD low time

These don’t seem to exist for extra seensors (or soil temp which was my proxy).

As an aside, one of the great uses for 1-wire senors is to log large numbers of temp sensors (data rooms, HVAC systems, etc). There is no other app out there that acquires this data and graphs it (usefully) and presents hi/low data for different time periods, in one integrated package. WD seems to have all of the infrastructure in place.

So, is it possible to either create the custom tags I describe myself in some way, or is it feasible to incorporate this in a future release of WD?

Thanks, and i hope this message is a little clearer!

Rich
ps - first shot at the personal page on my weather site is here: http://www.sheltons.net/weather/wx3.html[list][/list:u][list][/list:u]

hi
are, gotcha now
i will have to add in all time records for extra temperature sensors…
i am away from today to friday, so it will be after that

That’s fantastic! thanks again for the hard work…

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But…I can’t find custom tags for “extra sensor” average/extreme/records (seems they aren’t retained and mapped to a custom tag).

Another question…At midnight the low and high values changed to reflect the new day and I get something like this now:

Created by “Weather Display” software version 10.21b at this start time/date 12:19:57 AM 1/5/2005

77.8…If using non standard extra temperature sensors, but will work for any station

-4.0…Dallas 1 wire current extra temp sensor temperature

-137.3…Dallas 1 wire low extra temp sensor temperature

00:00 AM…Dallas 1 wire low time extra temp sensor temperature

77.8…Dallas 1 wire high extra temp sensor temperature

01:02 AM…Dallas 1 wire high time of extra temp sensor temperature

Even an hour later the low value is at -137.3. Will this effect the (future?) all time low tags for this extra sensor, or does it ignore reading such as these?

that -137 is a default low number, that will get beaten when the data updates next.,…
but there should be general custom tags for hi/lo, and not the dallas 1 wire ones, to use

I have looked through the owntemplate.txt file and can not find any tags for all time records for the extra sensors…I downloaded the most recent version to look through that owntemplate.txt as well. Is there anywhere else I can look?

Thanks,

Chad

is that all time records you are after, as opposed to just daily hi/lo, for a extra temperature ?
I dont have that in WD at the moment…all time records for extra sensors…unless you set that extra sensor as soil temperature, and then renamed the word soil temperature for the all time records window via the language.ini file (for just that one)…now there is a work around…