I have 'solved' the issue. I deleted the skin directories for Belchertown, installed the skin again, cycled WeeWX, run wee_reports. All is well with variables and about.inc.
Something indeed was missing in the skin directories. Thanks all. -- 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.
