You can. In fact, if you take a look at Seasons, that's basically what's
been done. However, it will only work with V3.9, not older versions.

-tk

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 5:36 PM Pat <[email protected]> wrote:

> I knew it was a lowercase R, not sure why I decided to camelCase it here.
>
> Thanks for the update and fix.
>
> Side question that I may have missed in the threads. Should I remove the
> Unit Groups from skin.conf and have them rely on weewx.conf's only?
>
>
> On Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at 8:33:26 PM UTC-4, Tom Keffer wrote:
>>
>> The type 'windrun' (note the lower-case 'r') is part of group_distance,
>> which was inadvertently left out of the set of groups that get  switched
>> when the user selects metric or US (it doesn't appear in any of the skins
>> that are part of WeeWX).
>>
>> It is easily added. Go into weewx.conf, section [StdReports] /
>> [[Defaults]] / [[[Units]]] / [[[[Groups]]]] and add it. For example,
>>
>>     [[Defaults]]
>>
>>         [[[Units]]]
>>
>>             # The following section sets what unit to use for each unit
>> group.
>>             # NB: The unit is always in the singular. I.e.,
>> 'mile_per_hour',
>>             # NOT 'miles_per_hour'
>>             [[[[Groups]]]]
>>
>>                 group_altitude = meter    # Options are 'foot' or 'meter'
>>                 group_degree_day = degree_C_day    # Options are
>> 'degree_F_day' or 'degree_C_day'
>>                 group_pressure = mbar    # Options are 'inHg', 'mmHg',
>> 'mbar', or 'hPa'
>>                 group_rain = mm    # Options are 'inch', 'cm', or 'mm'
>>                 group_rainrate = mm_per_hour    # Options are
>> 'inch_per_hour', 'cm_per_hour', or 'mm_per_hour'
>>                 group_speed = meter_per_second    # Options are
>> 'mile_per_hour', 'km_per_hour', 'knot', or 'meter_per_second'
>>                 group_speed2 = meter_per_second2    # Options are
>> 'mile_per_hour2', 'km_per_hour2', 'knot2', or 'meter_per_second2'
>>                 group_temperature = degree_C    # Options are 'degree_F'
>> or 'degree_C'
>>                 group_distance = km_per_hour
>>
>> I'll add it to the development branch.
>>
>> -tk
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 5:00 PM Pat <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> In weewx 3.9.1 and when the windRun archive type is enabled, it's only
>>> outputting miles when using $year.windrun.max, even when the skin is in
>>> metric.
>>>
>>> Likewise, $unit.label.windRun is not returning anything in the skin.
>>>
>>> I haven't found a way to get the label to observe the Group labels.
>>>
>>> I'm still learning the generators, it's a slow process since it's in my
>>> spare hobby time. My question is, how can windRun observe the skin metric
>>> values?
>>>
>>>

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