Hmm, not quite sure what you are doing different to me, but if you edit the file as per instructions it certainly works. Can you confirm that your file is just called about.inc and it resides in the skins/Belchertown directory?
On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 5:33 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> wrote: >> >>> You should just edit the Inc file, about.inc >>> >>> On Sat, 23 Feb 2019, 17:04 Andrew Milner, <[email protected]> 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? >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>> 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. >>>> >>> -- > 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. > -- 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.
