- The new installer not only writes out all the available options, it
automatically re-organizes with each installation. If you set an option and
then want to return it to default, you can simply delete it, and the
installer will put it back commented as the default on the next go-around.
- Installation bug -- "aeris" should still be accepted automatically as a
legacy term. Did that not happen?
- Docs -- I'll change that to take out sudo, you're right it's usually not
required.
- Yes, it's always necessary to restart weewx to see changes after you
change settings.
- Day/night setting is indeed now auto. That's just kind of a modern
expectation with websites these days.
- "View all records here" and "Charts. View more here" is a deliberate
legacy holdover from the original Belchertown. I just like the wording and
look, it's a distinct personality from Pat's original site.
- Records label is centered to the page itself, not only the cards
underneath it. I can try to tinker with it for clarity but I think it might
look like a mistake if it's "centered" off to the right.
On Wednesday, June 3, 2026 at 12:41:26 AM UTC-4 Vince Skahan wrote:
> 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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