thanks! I'll give the template map a try.

On Tuesday, November 10, 2020 at 2:39:14 PM UTC-8 [email protected] wrote:

> Off the top of my head, I can think of three ways to do this. Needless to 
> say, none of them is tested.
>
> 1. It's not very elegant, but you could monkey patch ValueHelper. See this 
> email 
> exchange 
> <https://groups.google.com/g/weewx-user/c/IKkVo4TIcfw/m/sxCt4OiNCAAJ>.
>
> 2 Alternatively, you can write a search list extension dedicated to doing 
> what you want. It would look like:
>
> <p>The current wind direction is $long_ordinal($current.windDir.raw> </p>
>
> 3. Use a map in your template to map from the abbreviated ordinals, to the 
> long version:
>
> #set ord_map = {'N': 'North', 'NNE': 'North Northeast', ... }
>
> <p>The current wind direction is 
> $ord_map[$current.windDir.ordinal_compass]</p>
>
>
>
>
> -tk
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 2:02 PM Chris Alemany <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Is it possible to be able to add a full word version of the 
>> ordinal_compass formatting for wind directions?  This would be useful for 
>> cerating auto-generated scripts and readouts, especially if they are read 
>> by machine, like an Alexa skill. Currently the Ordinates section controls 
>> this in skin.conf and I could replace the abbreviations with words, but 
>> that would change it for all directions in that skin which would not be 
>> desirable.  I’m currently implementing this in a custom RSS/XML file in the 
>> RSS directory of the Standard skin.
>>
>> It would be wonderful if we could have two separate formats for ordinals:
>>
>> eg.
>>
>> [[Ordinates]]    
>>         # The ordinal directions. The last one should be for no wind 
>> direction
>>         directions = N, NNE, NE, ENE, E, ESE, SE, SSE, S, SSW, SW, WSW, 
>> W, WNW, NW, NNW, N/A
>>
>>     [[OrdinatesLong]]    
>>         # The ordinal directions. The last one should be for no wind 
>> direction
>>         directions = North, North Northeast, Northeast, East Northeast, 
>> East, East Southeast, Southeast, South Southeast, South, South Southwest, 
>> Southwest, West Southwest, West, West Northwest, Northwest, North 
>> Northwest, N/A 
>>
>> I’m working on the Alexa Skill/Flash Briefing for my website (you can 
>> search for it at Port Alberni Weather in the Alexa Skill store) and so 
>> having this functionality available would be an asset.
>>
>> If I have missed this ability elsewhere please forgive me. 
>> I indebted to your advice!
>>
>> Thanks
>> Chris
>>
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