Thanks. Yes I found the labels in skin.conf and have been fiddling with them a bit.
One question though - how do I suppress the trailing '.' after the four major section headers on the toplevel page ? (Example - 'Charts.' rather than 'Charts') - I'd expect the page to have literally what I have in the definitions in skin.conf with nothing added. Bug ? I'll give the centering tweak a test today and reply in the github issue. Thanks ! On Wednesday, June 3, 2026 at 9:21:31 AM UTC-7 Pablo Sanchez wrote: > Hi Vince, > > Can we perhaps get options to let us specify the strings we use in the > various sections for their titles and 'view more' wording or alternately > supersede the defaults with a something.conf file so we'd be upgrade-safe ? > > > Please see the Wiki for the available skin options where one can override > many labels. Anything missing? I would suggest opening up an Issue - > https://github.com/uajqq/weewx-belchertown-new/wiki/Skin-options > > > > Here's what the centering bug looks like on my iphone in chrome (attached). > > > A change has been pushed out. Please add any comments to the issue I > opened on your behalf - > https://github.com/uajqq/weewx-belchertown-new/issues/197 > > I am going to test it out shortly. > > Thx! > > --- > pablo > > > > On 2026-06-03 11:22, Vince Skahan wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. > > Can we perhaps get options to let us specify the strings we use in the > various sections for their titles and 'view more' wording or alternately > supersede the defaults with a something.conf file so we'd be upgrade-safe ? > > Here's what the centering bug looks like on my iphone in chrome (attached). > > > > On Wednesday, June 3, 2026 at 6:53:38 AM UTC-7 uajqq wrote: > >> - 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 >>>>> >>>>> -- > 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/f70ac830-29ed-4fd4-9931-f40a9f2ae3d6n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/f70ac830-29ed-4fd4-9931-f40a9f2ae3d6n%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/a4ef3bb7-6574-44c6-af73-fa80198531aen%40googlegroups.com.
