I think it is time to remove it (csv files). What do you think?
Hmm I personally don’t use it but thought they are showing the data for the history widget?
I have noticed that the data folder can grow very very large! Mine is about 4gb worth of CSV files so far.
Okay then! I vote remove… or the option to remove (or not) in server.properties
I don’t use it.
I don’t use it… or really understand what it is used for (EDIT - OK, now I do ). I see no reason to keep it (especially if it speeds things up even more), unless one is reeely into tracking data
I don’t use it (to be honest never knew much about it) - history is obviously the most critical which I use for reporting and analytics all the time.
Let the user choose. Turn it off by default and have the server.properties handle it
The blue pill or the red pill, your choice …
@Lichtsignaal I’m asking cause now we have now csv export in history graph, so it seems not necessary anymore.
Ok, but I understand, that exporting to CSV (or whatever readable data format) will be preserved? Personally had never accessing CSV directly and my opinion is, this is not a good format for database purposes. IF exporting data will still be there (or by direct HTTP API access, as it is) THEN i vote for removing current CSV’s as a database storage (or whatever its purpose is currently).
Sure.
@Dmitriy Hi Dmitriy, H E L P - M E - P L E A S E !!
I absolutely use CSV files from local server in my monitoring projects! Indeed my final users need to receive data thru smartphone - for command and control operation – and MAINLY via browser, where they need to receive and store the graphs of the monitored measures for many years …
For this reason I’ve spent a lot of time and energy to realize a program that picks up data from CSV files and populate a database from which, by a graphical program (AM Charts), I build the graphs used by final user.
Historical graph widgets are not suitable for many reasons (huge number of widgets to put in a dashboard, no possibility to print on paper, etc.)
So I’d ask you to leave anything as is, giving the possibility to another user to exclude CSV acting on file properties. I really believe that it is very important to give stability and continuity to Blynk system. In addition, please, consider that I’ve already delivered a lot of projects to final user and I cannot modify the firmware because now they are out of my control.
I will appreciate very much if you could take into account this request !!
Regards, Giancarlo
@Gianca raw data is something different to csv and nobody even seems to know what raw data is so it’s unlikely to be a problem if it’s removed.
Please confirm you don’t use raw data.
@Costas I use CSV files. If these are the raw data, yes I use raw data.
To be more clear I use the files created for every virtual pin, composed by two clumns: data associated to virtul pin and Unix time. They are the files that are zipped every midnight.
Please don’t destroy all my work
If I’m wrong I will be very happy !!!
See posts 2 and 3.