Confused. If we can set our desired wording/punctuation in skin.conf why would you possibly choose to not honor what the user modifies that to be ? Seems like a bug to me. How do I get it to use the headings *I* specify - no more and no less ?
On Wednesday, June 3, 2026 at 10:00:42 AM UTC-7 uajqq wrote: > Not a bug, just the deliberate style/personality of the skin! > > On Wednesday, June 3, 2026 at 12:45:03 PM UTC-4 Vince Skahan wrote: > >> 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. 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