First day of month: "There is no data to export!"

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First day of month I get the message: "There is no data to export!" on every run (5 minute cronjob):
/usr/local/gvs_cron/SMAspot240/bin/Release/SMAspot -ad2 -am2 -v0 -q -d0
This happend last month as well.

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[SillieWimons@1/04/2014]
dear since you did not include more information
I'll assume that you refer to the monthly file,

• the information related to "total-production" of a day, eg for the first day of a month
  is only available the morning after the first day,
  for that reason the report by SMAspot "no-data" is correct

note: see also the discussions on "googlecode" for SMAspot

kr wim

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[SBF@1/04/2014]
Maybe the message is a bit confusing, but like Wim said, the first day of the month there is still no month data. It is only available after a complete day: in this case 2nd of April at 00:00

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[gvs@2/04/2014]
Although "no-data" is correct on the first day of the month. it is a message the code will always create the first 24 hours of a month. An inexperienced user might see as an error not knowing how to solve.

Normally if a Linux cron job runs and a error or message is created, it will create a mail. This is to report errors to administrator.
I the case of SMAspot the administrator wants a mail when the program has messages or errors and not send to "1> /dev/null 2>&1", virtually make administrator blind for messages or errors.

The code could check for first day of month and not report this message because it is normal behavior, not an error.
If you do not think this should be in the code could you help me. I was looking at the code but I am not a C-programmer, if you know a possible solution only to remove it on the first day of the month, not on other days of the month could you give me a hint, thanks Ger.

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Issue closed by SBF with comment
This is normal behaviour - By design of SMA firmware

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