All answers are correct, yet if you put those variables into about.inc, the 
do not work.  I am wondering if you need to have the page PHP like.  Maybe 
Pat can post the source for his?

On Friday, February 22, 2019 at 10:15:13 PM UTC-6, Colin Larsen wrote:
>
> Creating About Page and Records Page
>
> The About Page and Records Page offer some areas for custom HTML to be 
> run. To create or edit these pages, go to the skins/Belchertown folder. 
> These files should not be overwritten during skin upgrdades, but it's 
> always best to have a backup just in case!
>
>    - Create (or edit) the skins/Belchertown/about.inc and 
>    skins/Belchertown/records.inc files with your text editor, such as 
>    Notepad or Nano.
>       - These files take full HTML, so you can get fancy if you want.
>       - You can view, and use the sample file about.inc.example 
>       
> <https://github.com/poblabs/weewx-belchertown/blob/master/skins/Belchertown/about.inc.example>
>        and records.inc.example 
>       
> <https://github.com/poblabs/weewx-belchertown/blob/master/skins/Belchertown/records.inc.example>.
>  
>       Just rename to remove the .example, edit and you should be good to 
>       go.
>    - Wait for an archive interval for the pages to be generated.
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 5:13 PM Colin Larsen <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> You should just edit the Inc file, about.inc
>>
>> On Sat, 23 Feb 2019, 17:04 Andrew Milner, <[email protected] 
>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>>> which file did you edit??  looks as though you perhaps changed the .html 
>>> file instead of the .html.tmpl file
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Saturday, 23 February 2019 04:54:28 UTC+2, G Hammer wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to include some WeeWX variables in the About page, but when I 
>>>> use the HTML sample I get the variable names as output.
>>>>
>>>> This:
>>>> <ul>
>>>>     <li>Station hardware: $station.hardware</li>
>>>>     <li>Server uptime: $station.os_uptime</li>
>>>>     <li>WeeWX uptime: $station.uptime</li>
>>>>     <li>WeeWX version: $station.version</li>
>>>>     <li>Belchertown Skin Version: $belchertown_version</li>
>>>> </ul>
>>>>           
>>>>
>>>> Results in this:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - Station hardware: $station.hardware
>>>>    - Server uptime: $station.os_uptime
>>>>    - WeeWX uptime: $station.uptime
>>>>    - WeeWX version: $station.version
>>>>    - Belchertown Skin Version: $belchertown_version
>>>>
>>>> As long as I'm on the topic, is there a list of inbuilt variables?
>>>>
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