>
> Check your weewx.conf file
I see it's already there.
Okay. Thanks.


On Fri, Jun 5, 2026 at 10:41 AM John Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>  it mentions "import schemas.wview_extended" must be replaced by
>> "import weewx.schemas.wview_extended"
>
>
> Check your weewx.conf file
>
> On Fri, 5 Jun 2026 at 07:04, [email protected] <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>>
>> I have already googled and searched this forum for how to solve this problem 
>> and wasn't able to find it. Some background is needed:
>> Some years ago I added a sensor to detect lake height, and at the Weewx 
>> 4.7.1 era time I thought I needed to add Lake Elevation ("LakeElev"). I 
>> remember doing something to extend the schema, and the database browser 
>> indeed showed the last column labeled "LakeElev". It was working fine. For 
>> years.  It continued to work fine when I had to rebuild my RPI4 because the 
>> memory card was damaged (lightning, I'm guessing). That was about 2 years 
>> ago. Rebuilt it, added things, and stuck my old weewx.sdb in there and (I 
>> wont mention the struggle with owfs but eventually got them working again) 
>> and the .sdb was logging all the parameters correctly. This was weewx 5.0.
>> Ffwd to the other day. Lightning struck nearby. Pi continued to appear 
>> working, until 2 days later I rebooted it, it's boot section of the USB 
>> stick was corrupted; I had backup of most things so started to rebuild. Got 
>> the pi up w/ latest os (trixie), added the stuff I needed, then did a fresh 
>> complete install of weewx 5.3.1 with the Davis plugged into the TTYUSB0, it 
>> was reading / catching up / logging, everything looked good then I 
>> remembered I this data didn't have Lake Data, so stopped weewx, replaced the 
>> .sdb with the previous .sdb, and all weewx did was throw errors about can't 
>> write to a read-only database (I made sure it was permissioned properly, I 
>> can think of no reason weewx wouldn't archive to it). So I put the new .sdb 
>> in and it continued to update, and at least weewx would archive to it.
>> So now I've gotten my extensions.py incorporated where it reads cpu temps 
>> from some processors on the network and puts them in the correct places in 
>> the .sdb, and of course reads the lake elevation, tries to put it in 
>> "LakeElev" but it doesn't exist.
>> I forgot how I added LakeElev column years ago, and something tells me the 
>> correct way to do that has evolved anyway.
>> So my question revolved around how do I get the LakeElev column into my .sdb 
>> so my extensions.py will place them there?
>> I'm enclosing copy of extensions.py and weewx.conf (I haven't reinstalled my 
>> owfs hat yet, so no mention of owfs in the .conf)
>> I did read "Upgrade Guide" as Tom mentioned to someone, it mentions
>> "import schemas.wview_extended" must be replaced by
>> "import weewx.schemas.wview_extended", I had neither in the extensions.py so 
>> I don't know how it worked with 5.0, and now I don't understand where the 
>> new statement is supposed to go. Or how I add that column to my short 
>> weewx.sdb.
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