Yes, clearly, and the variables would not show up on the about page as G Hammer show unless there was actually an about.inc. Mine works fine, but I am not passing any variables into it. I suspect there is a PHP wrapper that is needed - are you using your about.inc to display variables? If so, could you please post it up?
On Saturday, February 23, 2019 at 12:09:22 AM UTC-6, Colin Larsen wrote: > > You need to remove the .example off the end so it is just about.inc > > On Sat, 23 Feb 2019, 19:07 , <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Yup, and I drop those variables in there and they do not render either. >> (I just tried it). I do not think the about.inc.example supports dropping >> variables into it as it seems to be straight html. >> >> On Friday, February 22, 2019 at 11:18:54 PM UTC-6, Colin Larsen wrote: >>> >>> 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] <javascript:>. >> 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.
