Yes, but then snow should be measured in mm. I can see an issue if you change units. That is, if you're doing something like $day.snow.sum.cm, then you want the appropriate unit label.
On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 5:34 PM gjr80 <[email protected]> wrote: > Because the unit group being applied to snow, group_rain, is set to ‘mm’ > (presumably so that rain appears in the correct/preferred default units) so > $unit.label.snow will result in ‘mm’. > > Gary > > On Tuesday, 30 November 2021 at 11:12:06 UTC+10 [email protected] wrote: > >> That makes sense, but then why not just use $unit.label.snow? >> >> On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 4:57 PM gjr80 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I think, reading between the lines, the issue may be that the OP wants >>> to include something like snow in a WeeWX generated data file to be used by >>> Highcharts, but using cm instead of mm as (seemingly) used for rain. I >>> would expect that instead of passing something like '23 cm' in a single >>> field Highcharts would want the value 23 in one field and 'cm' in another. >>> The former can be obtained (for example) via $day.snow.cm.raw or >>> $day.snow.cm.format(add_label=False) but there is no tag to get the >>> unit label for 'cm' when your default unit for group_rain is mm. The >>> only solution I can think of short of digging into the WeeWX internals is >>> some in-line python code that parses the result of $day.snow.cm. Or >>> hardcoding cm, but that is rather limiting. >>> >>> Gary >>> On Tuesday, 30 November 2021 at 10:20:02 UTC+10 [email protected] wrote: >>> >>>> Not understanding your question. The $unit tag is designed to retrieve >>>> the reporting unit being used by an observation type. Why would you want to >>>> retrieve something different? >>>> >>>> If you want the value of a type in a different unit, you can do >>>> something like: >>>> >>>> *$day.rain.sum.cm <http://day.rain.sum.cm>* >>>> >>>> This will give the rain since midnight in cm. Is this what you are >>>> looking for? >>>> >>>> -tk >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 8:46 AM František Slimařík <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> I have question regarding tag $unit. When I have for example tag >>>>> $unit.label.rain it will show me " mm". Is there any way how to show >>>>> different type of unit in case I want to show snow in my highchart graph >>>>> and use this tag option? Like $unit.label.rain.cm? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for answer. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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/6ef88b26-06fb-464f-bee1-0968a91234a4n%40googlegroups.com >>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/6ef88b26-06fb-464f-bee1-0968a91234a4n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>> . >>>>> >>>> -- >>> 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/2726ca14-e831-4f1e-9da3-bebebb251df4n%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/2726ca14-e831-4f1e-9da3-bebebb251df4n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > 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/94d6c41a-0657-4eca-a5a8-c34d4c9512e7n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/94d6c41a-0657-4eca-a5a8-c34d4c9512e7n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAPq0zEA%3Depxd6rZiven-exeoi%2BVO%2BmPMytYBNj1wQ3iEdVrObg%40mail.gmail.com.
