Apologies for all the followups - I found where the 'dot' was being 
appended in the cheetah directives in index.html.tmpl - I'll open a PR to 
you tomorrow....

On Wednesday, June 3, 2026 at 7:15:52 PM UTC-7 Vince Skahan wrote:

> Can you at least identify where in the code the trailing dots are coming 
> from so I can try to look into whether I can provide a PR ?
>
> On Wednesday, June 3, 2026 at 4:58:39 PM UTC-7 uajqq wrote:
>
>> The code is open-source and can be infinitely customized by any user to 
>> their exact preferences, as the vibrant WeeWX user community can attest. 
>> The fork that I maintain does not support that specific feature, however. 
>> My apologies. 
>>
>> On Wednesday, June 3, 2026 at 1:25:01 PM UTC-4 Vince Skahan wrote:
>>
>>> Confused.  If we can set our desired wording/punctuation in skin.conf 
>>> why would you possibly choose to not honor what the user modifies that to 
>>> be ?   Seems like a bug to me.   How do I get it to use the headings *I* 
>>> specify - no more and no less ?
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, June 3, 2026 at 10:00:42 AM UTC-7 uajqq wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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. On Mobile, it works great too!
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> -pablo
>>>>>>>>>>
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