I tried it on the simulator and it went well so I went for smoke as we used
to say and switched my production system over. Wow. Very slick.
Answering my own question - I do see that it wrote out a full stanza with
my previous entries in there ok. Excellent.
More info....
- one installation bug - I was using aeris for my forecast provider and
had to manually rename it to xweather
- docs - your wiki says to install using sudo - not really required any
more in weewx v5 and certainly not for pip installations. You might just
point to the authoritative weewx docs for installing extensions
- note - after fiddling with belchertown in general it is 'usually'
required to restart weewx to make it take effect
- your day/night setting default is 'auto' where Pat's was 'light'. I
had to edit weewx.conf to set it to use light always which worked fine.
Not a big deal.
- your 'weather records snapshot' card has a needlessly verbose 'view
all records here'. I'd suggest perhaps truncating that to '(see all) or
(more)'
- your 'Homepage.' card really should be called 'Charts' (no . on the
word) and again the 'view more here' is too verbose. Again perhaps ('see
all') or ('more') there.
- the records labels not being centered bug I mentioned earlier appears
in portrait mode only on my iphone. Landscape mode looks ok.
- I did get bitten by the old aqiChart being deprecated out in new
versions but figured it out from the nice docs
Super nice major update !!!! The cards look just great. So great
looking. So great.
On Tuesday, June 2, 2026 at 8:01:21 PM UTC-7 Vince Skahan wrote:
> Can you explain how the new one differs from the original ?
>
> i like the new records format a lot but the headings on
> https://weather.hillsandlakes.com/records/ are not aligned with the data
> items (cards?)
>
> Also one of the nice features of original belchertown is that the
> installer wrote out a full stanza with all the many configurable elements
> in the right place, just commented out. This helped reduce user errors a
> lot (disclaimer - I provided that code and the install.py to Pat years ago
> now). Does the new fork still do that ?
>
> On Tuesday, June 2, 2026 at 3:08:41 PM UTC-7 Pablo Sanchez wrote:
>
>>
>> On 2026-06-02 17:13, uajqq wrote:
>>
>> New Belchertown (the updated fork of the original Belchertown) v2.0 is
>> now out with a refreshed card-based layout and tons of new features. Let me
>> know what you think!
>>
>>
>> I am a bit biased as I am a very minor contributor and a user of *New
>> Belchertown: *this skin is absolutely fantastic. The support is awesome
>> too.
>>
>> If anyone is interested, they can go to my weather website to see v2.0
>> live: https://weather.hillsandlakes.com
>>
>> This is a screen scrape. I scaled down the image so it looks a bit fuzzy.
>> The new card layout is very cool. Resizing the web page, as expected,
>> dynamically adjusts the cards. I am excited to try kiosk-mode on an old
>> table. On Mobile, it works great too!
>>
>>
>>
>> -pablo
>>
>>
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