Hi Vince,
Can we perhaps get options to let us specify the strings we use in the
various sections for their titles and 'view more' wording or
alternately supersede the defaults with a something.conf file so we'd
be upgrade-safe ?
Please see the Wiki for the available skin options where one can
override many labels. Anything missing? I would suggest opening up an
Issue - https://github.com/uajqq/weewx-belchertown-new/wiki/Skin-options
Here's what the centering bug looks like on my iphone in chrome
(attached).
A change has been pushed out. Please add any comments to the issue I
opened on your behalf -
https://github.com/uajqq/weewx-belchertown-new/issues/197
I am going to test it out shortly.
Thx!
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pablo
On 2026-06-03 11:22, Vince Skahan wrote:
Thanks for the reply.
Can we perhaps get options to let us specify the strings we use in the
various sections for their titles and 'view more' wording or
alternately supersede the defaults with a something.conf file so we'd
be upgrade-safe ?
Here's what the centering bug looks like on my iphone in chrome
(attached).
On Wednesday, June 3, 2026 at 6:53:38 AM UTC-7 uajqq wrote:
- The new installer not only writes out all the available options,
it automatically re-organizes with each installation. If you set
an option and then want to return it to default, you can simply
delete it, and the installer will put it back commented as the
default on the next go-around.
- Installation bug -- "aeris" should still be accepted
automatically as a legacy term. Did that not happen?
- Docs -- I'll change that to take out sudo, you're right it's
usually not required.
- Yes, it's always necessary to restart weewx to see changes after
you change settings.
- Day/night setting is indeed now auto. That's just kind of a
modern expectation with websites these days.
- "View all records here" and "Charts. View more here" is a
deliberate legacy holdover from the original Belchertown. I just
like the wording and look, it's a distinct personality from Pat's
original site.
- Records label is centered to the page itself, not only the cards
underneath it. I can try to tinker with it for clarity but I think
it might look like a mistake if it's "centered" off to the right.
On Wednesday, June 3, 2026 at 12:41:26 AM UTC-4 Vince Skahan wrote:
I tried it on the simulator and it went well so I went for
smoke as we used to say and switched my production system
over. Wow. Very slick.
Answering my own question - I do see that it wrote out a full
stanza with my previous entries in there ok. Excellent.
More info....
* one installation bug - I was using aeris for my forecast
provider and had to manually rename it to xweather
* docs - your wiki says to install using sudo - not really
required any more in weewx v5 and certainly not for pip
installations. You might just point to the authoritative
weewx docs for installing extensions
* note - after fiddling with belchertown in general it is
'usually' required to restart weewx to make it take effect
* your day/night setting default is 'auto' where Pat's was
'light'. I had to edit weewx.conf to set it to use light
always which worked fine. Not a big deal.
* your 'weather records snapshot' card has a needlessly
verbose 'view all records here'. I'd suggest perhaps
truncating that to '(see all) or (more)'
* your 'Homepage.' card really should be called 'Charts' (no
. on the word) and again the 'view more here' is too
verbose. Again perhaps ('see all') or ('more') there.
* the records labels not being centered bug I mentioned
earlier appears in portrait mode only on my iphone.
Landscape mode looks ok.
* I did get bitten by the old aqiChart being deprecated out
in new versions but figured it out from the nice docs
Super nice major update !!!! The cards look just great. So
great looking. So great.
On Tuesday, June 2, 2026 at 8:01:21 PM UTC-7 Vince Skahan wrote:
Can you explain how the new one differs from the original ?
i like the new records format a lot but the headings on
https://weather.hillsandlakes.com/records/ are not aligned
with the data items (cards?)
Also one of the nice features of original belchertown is
that the installer wrote out a full stanza with all the
many configurable elements in the right place, just
commented out. This helped reduce user errors a lot
(disclaimer - I provided that code and the install.py to
Pat years ago now). Does the new fork still do that ?
On Tuesday, June 2, 2026 at 3:08:41 PM UTC-7 Pablo Sanchez
wrote:
On 2026-06-02 17:13, uajqq wrote:
New Belchertown (the updated fork of the original
Belchertown) v2.0 is now out with a refreshed
card-based layout and tons of new features. Let me
know what you think!
I am a bit biased as I am a very minor contributor and
a user of /New Belchertown: /this skin is absolutely
fantastic. The support is awesome too.
If anyone is interested, they can go to my weather
website to see v2.0 live:
https://weather.hillsandlakes.com
This is a screen scrape. I scaled down the image so it
looks a bit fuzzy. The new card layout is very cool.
Resizing the web page, as expected, dynamically
adjusts the cards. I am excited to try kiosk-mode on
an old table. On Mobile, it works great too!
-pablo
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