I filed an issue for the record-is-None-problem there: #583 
<https://github.com/poblabs/weewx-belchertown/issues/583>

Karen K schrieb am Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2021 um 21:42:24 UTC+1:

> Hi Tom, you are right. I changed the code that it returns the last value 
> if record is None, and immediately Belchertown skin shows the value.
>
> I considered your comments about dangers by comparing the timestamp of the 
> last value with the actual time time.time(). If the value is too old an 
> error is raised rather than a value returned. And I let the program 
> complain to the log, that record is None.
>
> Skin with included GTS value <https://www.woellsdorf-wetter.de>
> Tom Keffer schrieb am Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2021 um 19:25:48 UTC+1:
>
>> That's one solution, but it has lots of dangers. The record could be 
>> hours old.
>>
>> NB: if you want to do that, it's easy enough to code up a custom version 
>> of get_scalar() that does this. If it detects a record of None, it gets the 
>> latest record from the database, then calls weewx.xtypes.get_scalar() with 
>> that.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 10:18 AM Karen K <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you for your extensive support! 
>>>
>>> Could it be, that get_scalar() in other classes (especially in the 
>>> basic ones) simply provide the last available value, if record is None?
>>>
>>> I could code it that way, but I am not sure, whether it is a good idea 
>>> or not.
>>>
>>> Tom Keffer schrieb am Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2021 um 17:51:45 UTC+1:
>>>
>>>> Hi, Karen. Looks like you are making steady progress.
>>>>
>>>> This is a bug in the Belchertown skin that I alluded to in another 
>>>> thread 
>>>> <https://groups.google.com/g/weewx-user/c/fKVxr07vMuE/m/I-PdDb7vBgAJ>.
>>>>
>>>> In a convoluted way, the skin is asking for a value from xtypes using 
>>>> the call 
>>>>
>>>> xtype.get_scalar(obs_type, record, db_manager)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> (Side note: the actual request is done through a getattr() query of a 
>>>> weewx.tags.CurrentObj object). 
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, the value for record as provided by the Belchertown 
>>>> skin is None. In theory, the xtypes extension could look up the values it 
>>>> needs from the database, but that would require knowing the time, but with 
>>>> record equal to None, that's not possible either.
>>>>
>>>> The Belchertown skin needs to provide the current record.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 8:39 AM Karen K <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> My XType extension is working in principle now. It calculates, and it 
>>>>> delivers values, if there is $current.GTS, $latest.GTS, $day.GTS or 
>>>>> $yesterday.GTS included in the skin definition. Also, images are 
>>>>> generated showing the value over time. All is fine so far.
>>>>>
>>>>> Then I included the value in the Belchertown skin observation list. 
>>>>> And I got an error message. It turned out, that it is possible that 
>>>>> get_scalar() is called with *record is None*. From documentation I 
>>>>> thought otherwise. That was confusing.
>>>>>
>>>>> As I included "if record is None: raise 
>>>>> weewx.CannotCalculate(obs_type)" into get_scalar() no error message 
>>>>> was logged any more. But no value was displayed in Belchertown skin. 
>>>>> Again: 
>>>>> if I include "$current.GTS" into the skin, the value is displayed. If 
>>>>> I include the value in the observation list in skin.conf, it is not. I 
>>>>> looked around and found out that Belchertown skin gets the value from 
>>>>> calling weewx.tags.CurrentObj()within their special extension 
>>>>> "belchertown.py" That seems to not include GTS value.
>>>>>
>>>>> So I am not sure what to do next.
>>>>>
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