$current.windSpeed.format(add_label=False) is equivalent to $current.windSpeed.formatted The latter being a little shorter to type.
Instead of MPH, you could use $unit.label.windSpeed > On Dec 20, 2020, at 4:01 PM, Rob Cranfill <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks, all! Looks like there is more than one way to accomplish this, > thanks for the suggestions. :-) > > I think I like the looks of this, which does what I want: > > $current.windSpeed.format(add_label=False) – > $span($time_delta=1800).windSpeed.max.format(add_label=False) MPH > > which gives me a result like "3 - 14 MPH", where the first number is the > current speed and the 2nd is the peak in the last 30 minutes. > >> On Sunday, December 20, 2020 at 11:55:15 AM UTC-8 gjr80 wrote: >> >> Have a look at the Formatting options section in the Customization Guide. >> >> $xxxxx.windSpeed.raw will certainly give you a number (not a string) with no >> units and you can do whatever you want with the data but you will need to do >> all formatting manually. Also have a look at $xxxxx.windSpeed.format, it >> will give you a string and there are numerous arguments that can be passed >> to .format that do things such as omitting the units, specifying a format >> string, what to display if None etc. There are examples further down. >> >> Gary >>> On Monday, 21 December 2020 at 05:28:01 UTC+10 [email protected] wrote: >>> I'm making a skin to display on a small screen (a 7" RPi LCD) and would >>> like to format the wind speed myself, but $windSpeed and all other wind >>> values seem to include the "mph" string. Is there a tag that is just the >>> numeric value? >>> >>> I guess one option is to use skin.conf to set the units to "", right? Is >>> there another way? >>> >>> Thanks for any suggestions! >>> > > -- > 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/73665327-8419-483a-b30e-10ac4ac6d750n%40googlegroups.com. -- 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/373CA63A-E3B0-4913-BA6A-21B07FEAE943%40johnkline.com.
