Sorry that a pdf is a battle.
On Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 9:24:01 AM UTC-7 Vince Skahan wrote:
> I'm not going to battle through a PDF. Sorry.
>
> If the image is being generated, it sounds like all you want to do is add
> a plot to the Seasons skin. Sorry can't help there. Don't use that skin.
> I'm sure many others do.
>
> On Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 8:45:09 AM UTC-7 Ralph Underwood wrote:
>
>> I have attached a bit of log and the skin.conf and weewx..conf.
>>
>> The image file is being written to my website, however it does not
>> display with the other plots. I have edited the plot groups order a couple
>> of times as I tested things.
>>
>> I used apt to install weewx on an Rpi.
>>
>>
>> On Monday, August 17, 2026 at 11:24:56 AM UTC-7 Vince Skahan wrote:
>>
>>> Impossible to say with such little information. No debug=1 logs. No
>>> excerpts for purpleair from your weewx.conf either. No info on 'which'
>>> purpleair extension you are running (there are a few). Insufficient info of
>>> what you changed where re: the Seasons skin.
>>>
>>> We can't read minds.
>>>
>>> FWIW - I a modified version of Ken Baker's v0.1 extension. If you look
>>> at the top of purpleair.py there are comments saying what your weewx.conf
>>> should contain. It saves to its own db. Works fine.
>>>
>>> On Monday, August 17, 2026 at 9:31:33 AM UTC-7 Ralph Underwood wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a PurpleAir air quality monitor. It was previously used at a
>>>> vacation home connected to a WeeWx weather station. My memory of the setup
>>>> was that it was pretty simple, install a Purple Air extension and data
>>>> appeared and a graph was installed automagically.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I do not remember the air quality stuff being in a separate database. I
>>>> believe that I was using a 4.something version of WeeWx.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Now I am trying to get it working with my home WeeWx installation. I
>>>> installed the Purple extension and I can get data from it to display in my
>>>> current.inc using a line :
>>>>
>>>> <td class=“data">$latest('purpleair_binding').pm2_5_cf_1</td>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have been trying to get the image generator to work with the
>>>> PurpleAir and so far no joy.
>>>>
>>>> This is what I have in my Seasons skin.conf:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [[[daypurpleair]]]
>>>>
>>>> [[[[pm2_5_cf_1]]]]
>>>>
>>>> data_binding = purpleair_binding
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have purpleair in the plot groups.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am using WeeWx version 5.1.0 on RPi. I installed using pip.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Any guess on what dumb thing I am missing?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is the separate database required or does the extended WeeWx schema
>>>> work?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any guidance.
>>>>
>>>>
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