From: Alexander Vasarab <alexander@wylark.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 01:40:49 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: A few more README changes
X-Git-Tag: v2.0.0^2
X-Git-Url: https://wylark.com/src/infoex-autowx.git/commitdiff_plain/9903624614ea3acbeda56479980cac9011262e3f

A few more README changes
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3b442b5..edd134b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -35,18 +35,26 @@ This design allows you to run a separate program instance for each NRCS
 or MesoWest weather station from which you'd like to automate the
 importation of data into your InfoEx subscriber account.
 
+To get started, copy the included example config file
+(`config.ini.example` in the root source directoy) and modify the values
+for your own use.
+
 To run ad-hoc (be sure to activate the virtual environment, as detailed in the
 Installation section):
 
 `./infoex-autowx.py --config path/to/config-file.ini [--dry-run] [--log-level debug|info|warning]`
 
-**NOTE: Specifying --dry-run will also not clean up the generated CSV
-file.** This is so that you can debug any issues more easily.
+**NOTE: Specifying --dry-run will not clean up the generated CSV file.**
+This is so that you can more easily debug any issues that arise in the
+setup process.
 
 You can also specify `--log-level` as debug, info, warning. The
-resultant log messages will try to be logged to journald, but if that's
-not available, they will be printed to stdout. This output can be
-helpful early on in the setup process.
+log messages produced by the program will try to be logged to journald,
+but if that's not available, they will be printed to stdout. This output
+can be helpful early on in the setup process.
+
+Automation
+----------
 
 Here's an example of a crontab(5) with two SNOTEL sites, each of which
 will run once per hour (note that this will activate the virtual environment
@@ -129,7 +137,7 @@ Once you've chosen your elements, combine all of their respective
 "elementCd" values into a comma-delimited string and put that into your
 configuration file as the `desired_data` value.
 
-A complete example:
+A complete [station] section example:
 
 `[station]`  
 `type = nrcs`  
@@ -165,12 +173,12 @@ you want to import data. Here are the steps to do that:
 
 https://developers.synopticdata.com/about/station-variables/
 
-The MesoWest API supports on-the-fly unit conversion, so that can be
-specified to infoex-autowx via the configuration option `units`. This
-can be either 'english' or 'metric', with 'english' meaning imperial
-units as used in the United States.
+The MesoWest API supports on-the-fly unit conversion. If desired, that
+can be specified to infoex-autowx via the configuration option `units`.
+This can be either 'english' or 'metric', with 'english' meaning
+imperial units as used in the United States.
 
-A complete example:
+A complete [station] section example:
 
 `[station]`  
 `type = mesowest`