See below. I can install the extension using the utility but where do I find it in tar.gz format?
On Monday, November 21, 2016 at 10:17:23 AM UTC-5, mwall wrote: > > On Monday, November 21, 2016 at 10:00:30 AM UTC-5, Clay Croom wrote: >> >> I am a new user to weewx after having used wview for several years. I >> just recently set up weewx on a computer running Debian Jessie. It has >> been working just fine and also set wunderfixer via cron job. I am now >> trying to get xstats to produce reports but after search and reading the >> manual along with other post I have come to a dead end. >> >> I noticed that xstats is showing under extensions but how to I active or >> install? When I enter the command to list installed extensions it says >> none installed. >> > > hi clay, > > the extensions directory is the home of four sample extensions (fileparse, > basic, pmon, xstats). it is *not* where extensions are installed. > > when you install an extension, its parts go into the appropriate place in > a weewx installation, i.e., into the skins folder for skins, and into the > user folder for any python code such as search list extensions, services, > or drivers. > > the listing you posted shows user/xstats.py, skins/xstats/, and > skins/xstats/skin.conf. how did those files get there? *I installed the > Debian package and it was installed this way by default.* > > if they got there by installing using wee_extension, then 'wee_extension > --list' will show xstats as an installed extension. *Not installed with > wee_extension.* > > if they got there by manually copying, then wee_extension won't know about > them. they'll still work, but since you did not create the meta > information used by wee_extension, wee_extension won't know about them.* > If I can just install via wee_extenion that might be best.* > > if you want to see the sample xstats skin, simply enable it in your > weewx.conf > > if you want to use xstats in an existing skin, add it to the skin's search > list extensions in the skin's skin.conf, and modify a template to use the > xstats variables. see the xstats/skin.conf and xstats.html.tmpl for an > example. > > m > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
