Finally found some time to figure this out today! Your suggestions worked, Gary! Thank you so much for helping me with that! Hopefully others will benefit as well! :)
On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 6:33 AM Kevin Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote: > I am indeed referring to that xml file. Thank you so much, Gary! I'll > backup the tmpl file and give that a try and see what happens, and post an > update here. :) > > On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 6:20 PM gjr80 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> When you refer to the 'RSS feed' I presume you are referring to the >> weewx_rss.xml file that appears in public_html/RSS ? >> >> You can control what appears in weewx_rss.xml through the >> skins/Standard/RSS/weewx_rss.xml.tmpl template file. `Wind: 6 km/h from >> 106°` will likely be produced by the following: >> >> $current.windSpeed from $current.windDir >> >> though it really depends on what you are picking up and tweeting from >> weewx_rss.xml. In this case the tag $current.windDir will give you a >> numeric direction with degree sign (the default format). If you change that >> to use $current.windDir.ordinal_compass instead of just $current.windDir >> you will get an ordinal direction like ESE. If you wan to include both you >> could use $current.windDir ($current.windDir.ordinal_compass) or >> $current.windDir.ordinal_compass >> ($current.windDir) to get 106° (ESE) or ESE (106°) respectively. >> >> You might want to have a read through the Tags section >> <http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm#Tags> of the Customization Guide >> <http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm> or if you are really adventurous >> the Wind section <http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm#Wind>. >> >> Any changes you do make to weewx_rss.xml.tmpl should be safe across >> WeeWX upgrades but you may wish to make a copy of your modified >> weewx_rss.xml.tmpl just in case. >> >> Gary >> >> PS. You may also want to have a look at the twitter extension >> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/twitter>, might save you a bit of >> double handling. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "weewx-user" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/weewx-user/sO7TbQlGySU/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > -- > *Kevin Lloyd* > @kevinlovestech <http://www.twitter.com/kevinlovestech> > 780-937-7428 > -- *Kevin Lloyd* @kevinlovestech <http://www.twitter.com/kevinlovestech> 780-937-7428 -- 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.
