Hi, A couple of WeeWX basics might help. You may well find that different units are used by different parts of WeeWX depending on a number of things. The driver used to obtain data from your station may use metric or US customary units, this is dependent on your station and/or the driver. Once in WeeWX the data will be converted (if necessary) to the units used within your WeeWX database, this could be one of the Metric based unit systems supported by WeeWX or it could be US customary. The default is US customary and this is where the StdConvert service comes into play, StdConvert converts the data from the driver from whatever units the driver used to whatever units your database uses. Then you have the reporting system, the reporting system uses the Cheetah template engine and a system of tags that can be used to specify, among other things, the units for a given observation/metric you are displaying. Again there is a default and when you installed WeeWX you should have been asked what display units to use, eg:
Indicate the preferred units for display: ['us', 'metric'] units [metric]: Your answer here would have been used to set the defaults. So there are three broad areas where data exists within WeeWX and it is quite possible that each could be different, at the end of the day whether the data from station to WeeWX or within the WeeWX database is stored in US, metric or Martian units is mostly irrelevant, what most people are concerned with are what units are displayed on screen. If you are using the skins packaged with WeeWX (Standard or Seasons) then you can alter the displayed units by changing config settings in weewx.conf, these settings will likely have been set at install but can easily be changed. You should find all you need in the How to change units section <http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm#how_to_change_units> in the Customization Guide. If you are using some other skin then it is possible they follow a similar system or they could do things in their manner. Best to seek guidance from the skin author/maintainer. Gary On Thursday, 6 August 2020 02:21:43 UTC+10, Randy wrote: > > I am new to weewx. I have data coming in from my device is coming in as > metric (specifically, temp is C). I want to display that data as US, F. > The default weewx skin is showing the data as metric values like 20F which > is actually 20C whereas it should be 68F. Where does this conversion > happen or where do I chance the configuration? > > Thank you > Randy > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/b49e7003-6218-4ad5-8743-4d1c83f84ce6o%40googlegroups.com.
