Tom, Thank you. That change made a big difference. Except for a Weewx update nothing changed except the outdoor sensor unit. I have not touched the Standard Skin that I remember. Perhaps when I first created my weather station but that was too long ago (8 years) to remember. Glad you were there to help... appreciated, Den ... I am going to monitor other near by stations and see if we agree on wind direction.
On Friday, October 10, 2025 at 3:36:44 PM UTC-4 Tom Keffer wrote: > If you did not change anything except the ISS, I don't have an > explanation. > > The Standard skin uses a continuous line to display wind direction, which > is not a very good choice. Much better is to use discrete marks, which is > what the Seasons skin does. That will make the display look much better. > > Go into the file /etc/weewx/skins/Standard/skin.conf and change this > > [[[daywinddir]]] > # Hardwire in the y-axis scale for wind direction > yscale = 0.0, 360.0, 45.0 > [[[[windDir]]]] > > to this > > [[[daywinddir]]] > # Hardwire in the y-axis scale for wind direction > yscale = 0.0, 360.0, 45.0 > line_type = None > marker_type = box > marker_size = 2 > [[[[windDir]]]] > > Do the same thing for sections [[[weekwinddir]]], [[[monthwinddir]]], and > [[[yearwinddir]]] in the same file. > > That should help a lot. > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM '[email protected]' via weewx-user < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I replaced my Davis Vantage Pro 2 Exterior Sensor Suite with a Vantage >> Vue Sensor Suite due to hardware failures. Since then my Weewx Day Wind >> Direction graph (daywind.png) has been unreadable due to constantly jumping >> up and down full scale (see image) >> The Vue Sensor suite is aimed in the correct direction (solar panel to >> the south). >> Attached is my config file, that did not change, and the syslog. >> I hope there is a simple solution that you can help me with... >> Everything else seems to be functioning as expected. >> Thanks for considering this issue.. >> [image: daywinddir.png] >> >> -- >> 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 visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/abb4a618-148c-4054-b1f9-5cc9e3c8dab3n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/abb4a618-148c-4054-b1f9-5cc9e3c8dab3n%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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/174533e0-ca9f-4e34-8ccc-251dbeab93f0n%40googlegroups.com.
