By the way, Ian, thanks as well for the new Ecowitt driver. I very much appreciate now having a supported and maintained driver that has all the bells and whistles AND is straight-forward to install using the standard weewx tools! Thanks, Bob
On Wednesday, October 7, 2026 at 3:00:02 PM UTC-7 Steeple Ian wrote: > weewx-ecowitt_console_emulator — a realtime Ecowitt console emulator skin > for WeeWX 5 > > A full-screen, landscape dashboard for a wall or desk tablet, laid out > like the Ecowitt WH2560 / HP2560 console, in a choice of navy-blue, black > or white palettes: outdoor temperature ring, wind dial, selectable > temperature/humidity channel, soil moisture / leaf wetness and lightning > line, leak indicators, PM2.5 and CO₂, sun arc and moon phase, rain > (traditional or piezo), and barometer with 3-hour trend and a > pressure-tendency forecast (a moon replaces the sun between sunset and > sunrise). The sky panel has a sun arc and, inside it, a moon track with > moonrise/moonset times; the moon is worked out in the browser for the > station's position, so WeeWX doesn't need the ephem package. The readings > row includes VPD, always in kPa. Like the console, signal bars sit next to > each reading and a battery icon only appears when a battery is low. 30 > different language translations. and 6 units group settings. > > Although primarily formatted for a tablet device, layout is responsive to > any screen size from a mobile phone to a large format screen. > > It works with any WeeWX 5 station fed by an Ecowitt gateway or console, > whatever driver brings the data in. It needs no other extension: the skin > has its own database, its own live-data service and its own chart data. > > If the *weewx-EcowittGateway > <https://github.com/Millardiang/weewx-ecowittGateway>* driver/service > happens to be installed, the skin also makes use of what it provides: its > ecwLoop.json live file, its rain_source setting, and the extra fields it > adds (10-minute wind direction, max daily gust, feels-like, the second rain > gauge in p_rain, sensor batteries and signal). Without it the skin uses > its own live file and works the extras out itself (see Fields > <https://github.com/Millardiang/weewx-ecowitt_console_emulator#fields-the-dashboard-uses>). > > Only the sensors you actually have are shown. > Live demo at https://console.steepleclaydonweather.uk > > Repository at > https://github.com/Millardiang/weewx-ecowitt_console_emulator -- 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/0de657dd-4c08-4721-8e58-42bc0ed72a71n%40googlegroups.com.
