Several skins offer live data update out of LOOP packet data. Some almanac data like azimuth and altitude change fast, too, but $almanac tags are not included there and can be used in page templates only. The Live Data Service of the weewx-sykfield-almanac <https://github.com/roe-dl/weewx-skyfield-almanac> extension addresses this problem. It augments the LOOP packets by actually calculated almanac values of the Sun and - if configured so - other heavenly bodies.
You can also add those data as columns to the database and then display them in diagrams together with other observation types like temperature etc. An example you see on our PV page <https://www.woellsdorf-wetter.de/photovoltaics/> ("Sonnenverlauf" = solarPath, "Sonnenrichtung" = solarAzimuth, "Sonnenhöhe" = solarAltitude). If you look some seconds at the values you see them change. A diagram <https://www.woellsdorf-wetter.de/photovoltaics/#sunpath> you find there, too. This may be especially interesting to skin authors, but if the skin is configurable, users can add those values, too. For example, for the Belchertown skin, you could add solarAltitude and/or solarAzimuth to the list of the station_observations key in skin.conf to show the values. Please make sure they are included in MQTT output, too. -- 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/84a5eef7-6567-4752-9624-3d9947a98727n%40googlegroups.com.
