Agree 100%, all of my changes to the included skins are implemented as
overrides in weewx.conf. The proposed v5 weectl station upgrade-skins is
essentially just a wrapper around the manual upgrade process the user must
follow now, so loss of changes is just as likely now as it is under v5. Of
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Thanks for the example and long explanation Gary.
Short answer is to add [[[DisplayOptions]]] in the [StdReport]
[[SeasonsReport]] stanza in weewx.conf in order to be the most safe from
upgrades. That's what I was struggling a little with verbalizing.
FWIW, the reason I suggested weewx.conf rat
The Standard skin was rather limited in what could be controlled via config
file options; you could control formatting and labelling of data as well as
generation of plots via config options, but display (or not) of content
(obs and plots) required changes to the .tmpl template file. The Seasons
vince writes:
> Look at the commentary in the Seasons skin.conf file, which seems to say
> that you can turn it off in weewx.conf, which should make you upgrade proof.
>
> # The following section contains variables that determine which observations
> # and plots will be shown in the template fil
Look at the commentary in the Seasons skin.conf file, which seems to say
that you can turn it off in weewx.conf, which should make you upgrade proof.
# The following section contains variables that determine which observations
# and plots will be shown in the template files, and their order. Lik
