Just wanted to come back and say thanks again. I finally added it to my 
/usr/share/weewx/user/extention.py and all works now! (well except that if 
i start the deamon proccess it fails to load the SDR driver but thats 
another issue entirely! =) 


On Sunday, April 21, 2019 at 11:00:28 PM UTC-4, Bruce Butkus wrote:
>
> Awesome! Thanks. That's probably it. I did extend the schema but didn't 
> give temp 8 any units. I'll do that and report back. 
> THANKS!!!!!!!!
>
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 6:45 PM mwall <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> i assume that you have already extended the schema to include extraTemp8 
>> - the wview schema (which is the default schema for weewx) only goes to 
>> extraTemp7
>>
>> when you extend the schema, you must also (separately) define the units 
>> for the new fields that you add to the schema
>>
>> if you do not define units, then weewx does not know how to do any 
>> conversions
>>
>> assuming that you have a field extraTemp8 in your database, 
>>
>> import weewx.units
>> weewx.units.obs_group_dict['extraTemp8'] = 'group_temperature'
>>
>> the typical place to put this is in the file extensions.py in the weewx 
>> user directory.  you must restart weewx after making this change.
>>
>> see the section "assigning a unit group" in the weewx customization guide.
>>
>> http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm#Assigning_a_unit_group
>>
>> m
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