I am indeed referring to that xml file. Thank you so much, Gary! I'll
backup the tmpl file and give that a try and see what happens, and post an
update here. :)

On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 6:20 PM gjr80 <gjroder...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When you refer to the 'RSS feed' I presume you are referring to the
> weewx_rss.xml file that appears in public_html/RSS ?
>
> You can control what appears in weewx_rss.xml through the
> skins/Standard/RSS/weewx_rss.xml.tmpl template file. `Wind: 6 km/h from
> 106°` will likely be produced by the following:
>
> $current.windSpeed from $current.windDir
>
> though it really depends on what you are picking up and tweeting from
> weewx_rss.xml. In this case the tag $current.windDir will give you a
> numeric direction with degree sign (the default format). If you change that
> to use $current.windDir.ordinal_compass instead of just $current.windDir
> you will get an ordinal direction like ESE. If you wan to include both you
> could use $current.windDir ($current.windDir.ordinal_compass) or 
> $current.windDir.ordinal_compass
> ($current.windDir) to get 106° (ESE) or ESE (106°) respectively.
>
> You might want to have a read through the Tags section
> <http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm#Tags> of the Customization Guide
> <http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm> or if you are really adventurous
> the Wind section <http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm#Wind>.
>
> Any changes you do make to weewx_rss.xml.tmpl should be safe across WeeWX
> upgrades but you may wish to make a copy of your modified
> weewx_rss.xml.tmpl just in case.
>
> Gary
>
> PS. You may also want to have a look at the twitter extension
> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/twitter>, might save you a bit of
> double handling.
>
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