The uploaded version of belchertown.py looks like the one that comes with
the v1.6 release. That version had a number of issues that have since been
fixed. Replacing belchertown.py with the one vince pointed to should,
hopefully, fix the problem.
On Tuesday, December 9, 2025 at 12:48:44 PM UTC-8 vince wrote:
> Your weewx.conf works ok versus the uajqq version in github, but the
> belchertown.py that you uploaded here looks like it's not that version.
>
> In the belchertown.py skin you uploaded line 244 is the locale error
> if belchertown_debug:
> log.error(
> * f"Locale: Error using locale
> {self.generator.skin_dict["Extras"]["belchertown_locale"]}. "*
> f"This locale may not be installed on your system
> and you may see unexpected results. "
> f"Belchertown skin JavaScript will try to use this
> locale. Full error: %{error}"
> )
>
> But around line 222 (much different) in
> https://github.com/uajqq/weewx-belchertown-new/blob/master/bin/user/belchertown.py
>
> I see:
>
> if belchertown_debug:
> log.error(
> f"Error using locale {belchertown_locale}. "
> "This locale may not be installed on your system
> and you may see unexpected results. "
> f"Python could not set the requested locale, but
> Belchertown skin JavaScript will attempt to use the provided locale string.
> Full error: {error}"
> )
>
> So my wild guess is you have some hacked/previous/miscellaneous/unknown
> version of the forked skin. Perhaps try installing the real one ?
>
> On Tuesday, December 9, 2025 at 11:47:26 AM UTC-8 Pete Geenhuizen wrote:
>
>> I downloaded the v1.6 skin from here
>> https://github.com/uajqq/weewx-belchertown-new.
>> Attached is the output from weectl.debug
>> Thanks for your help.
>> Pete
>>
>>
>> On 12/9/25 12:40, vince wrote:
>>
>> "*using the new 1.6 forked version of the Belchertown skin*" - without
>> knowing 'which' forked version it might be difficult for people to help.
>>
>> How about running "weectl debug" and attaching the output so folks can
>> see your setup....
>>
>> Based on the error you mention, best guess is you have [ something ] with
>> a mismatched number of [ and ] brackets.
>>
>> On Tuesday, December 9, 2025 at 8:23:25 AM UTC-8 Pete Geenhuizen wrote:
>>
>>> I trying to update my Rock 8 weewx v4 to Rocky 9 weewx v5 using the new
>>> 1.6 forked version of the Belchertown skin.
>>>
>>> I'm testing this out in simulator mode, and it sees to start fine until
>>> it does an update which start with this error
>>>
>>> ERROR weewx.reportengine: Caught unrecoverable exception in generator
>>> 'weewx.cheetahgenerator.CheetahGenerator'
>>>
>>> ERROR weewx.reportengine: **** f-string: unmatched '['
>>> (belchertown.py, line 244)
>>>
>>> and goes down hill from there
>>>
>>> Attached is a copy of the last run..
>>>
>>> I have very limited programming skills and zero knowledge of python, so
>>> I'm hoping that someone help me fix the problem.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Pete
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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