So the visible % is now 26% for both the new and old versions of almanac.py/Moon.py and the new version now lists the phase as Waning Crescent (as does the old version and WU).
Phil On Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 11:29:28 AM UTC-5, kutz...@gmail.com wrote: > > Here's an interesting piece of data. I'm using Tom's new almanac.py and > Moon.py on a testbed version of WeeWX. On my "production" instance of > WeeWX, I have the versions of those files originally installed with WeeWX > 3.9.1. > > On my production instance the moon is listed as 29% visible and is > described as "Waning Crescent" (which matches what WU says). On my testbed > instance, the moon is listed at 29% visible but is described as "Last > Quarter". > > So it looks like the version that Tom updated hasn't yet updated the > description from Last Quarter to Waning Crescent. That should have occurred > as the visible amount decreased to 40%. I'm not sure if that's due to the > variability Tom mentioned or something in the new version that should be > changed. > > Phil > > > On Wednesday, February 27, 2019 at 9:53:10 PM UTC-5, kutz...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> Ah. Right you are. I had put it in the right place, but somehow, I ended >> up saving it as moon.py instead of Moon.py. I'm not sure how I did that, >> since I thought I copied it, name and all, from the GitHub repository. I >> renamed it (after removing the old Moon.py, which was still there) and all >> works fine now. >> >> Thanks for helping me out. >> >> Phil >> >> On Wednesday, February 27, 2019 at 8:13:23 PM UTC-5, Thomas Keffer wrote: >>> >>> You probably still have the old copy of weeutil/Moon.py. You need this >>> one >>> <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/weewx/weewx/master/bin/weeutil/Moon.py>. >>> Or, you accidentally put it in the weewx directory, instead of the weeutil >>> directory. >>> >>> -tk >>> >>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 1:31 PM <kutz...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Understood. In the meantime, I did try copying your new version of >>>> almanac.py into the bin/weewx directory on my testbed weewx (I copied >>>> moon.py into the bin/weeutil directory also, though I don't think that >>>> matters). I got the attached errors complaining about moon_phase_ts. Did I >>>> miss a file updated in an earlier commit? >>>> >>>> Phil >>>> >>>> -- 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.
