Close. For a simple report like this, you want "ToDate" generation (as opposed to summaries by month or year, like the NOAA reports). So, you need to tuck your addition under [[ToDate]] and add one more set of brackets. It will look like:
[[ToDate]] ... (other templates) [[[temp.txt]]] # Report that makes current outTemp available to other program encoding = strict_ascii template = temp.txt.tmpl -tk On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Jim W. <wolff.slow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Tom and Andrew, > I have created a new template called temp.txt.tmpl in the > etc/weewx/skins/Standard directory. It's only content is: $current.outTemp > > In the skin.conf file under [CheetahGenerator] I added: > > [[temp.txt]] > # Report that makes current outTemp available to other program > encoding = strict_ascii > template = temp.txt.tmpl > > Am I on the right track? Thanks for your patience! > > > > > > On Monday, October 31, 2016 at 9:23:13 AM UTC-4, Jim W. wrote: >> >> THANKS ALL... now i'm heading in the right direction!!! >> >> >> >> On Sunday, October 30, 2016 at 9:31:54 PM UTC-4, Tom Keffer wrote: >>> >>> Jim, >>> >>> Did you check the Customizing Guide >>> <http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm>? It has an abundance of >>> information about how to access the data. As Andrew suggests, the easiest >>> is to specify that the report generator create another (tiny) file, with >>> just a single tag $current.outTemp. On every reporting cycle the tag will >>> be replaced with the current temperature. >>> >>> -tk >>> >>> On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 1:50 PM, Jim W. <wolff....@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I have very little Linux (or other programming) experience... Decades >>>> ago I did a little Visual Basic programming but that is a dim memory. I >>>> have managed (with the generous help of this forum) to setup and run weewx >>>> on a Rpi3b. WS2080 WU and Motion sending images to WU. >>>> >>>> My next project is to add overlays of temperature and wind speed and >>>> direction to the images I'm sending to WU. Most of it I have figured out >>>> but what I don't know is where to find the actual data (temp) within weewx? >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "weewx-user" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to weewx-user+...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.