Not a bug, just the deliberate style/personality of the skin! On Wednesday, June 3, 2026 at 12:45:03 PM UTC-4 Vince Skahan wrote:
> Thanks. Yes I found the labels in skin.conf and have been fiddling with > them a bit. > > One question though - how do I suppress the trailing '.' after the four > major section headers on the toplevel page ? (Example - 'Charts.' rather > than 'Charts') - I'd expect the page to have literally what I have in the > definitions in skin.conf with nothing added. Bug ? > > I'll give the centering tweak a test today and reply in the github issue. > Thanks ! > > On Wednesday, June 3, 2026 at 9:21:31 AM UTC-7 Pablo Sanchez wrote: > >> 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! >> >> --- >> 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. 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