Weather34 Skin New Version

[steeple ian]

I am please to announce that the Weather34 skin has completed its previously trailed transition to Highcharts as its charting system and is now available at https://github.com/steepleian/weewx-Weather34. This version comes complete with its own custom built installer which is more suited to the monolithic construction of the Weather34 skin. During the install process options are provided for WeeWX installed by the setup.py method, a packaged method (Debian etc) or macOS method.

The previous version of Weather34 employing CanvasJS charts has been archived and will not be developed any further. It will remain in the repository for any user that does not wish to upgrade at this point in time.

This upgrade has been tested and is compatible with WeeWX 3.9.2, WeeWX 4.0.0 (up to build 18, Python2.7 and Python3.7) and Highcharts 8

With this upgrade the following charts have been created: - Temperature, Humidity, Dewpoint, Temp/Hum/Dew, Indoor Temp, Windchill/HeatIndex, Barometer, Wind Speed, Wind Direction, Windrose, Wind Speed/Wind Gust/Wind Direction, UV, Radiation, Radiation/UV, Rainfall, Rainfall Monthly, Luminosity, Lightning, Barometer/Temp/Wind and Wind Barb. Please feel free to develop additional charts that do not appear in this list and share with other users.

Most charts have both weekly (1hour, 6hours, 12hours, 24hours, 36hours and 7days) and yearly (1day, 1week, 1month, 6months and 1year) spans.

The following charts have radial views: Temp, Dewpoint, Humidity, Barometer, Indoor, Derived, Wind Speed.

Most charts can change from yearly to weekly to daily by clicking a "hook point" on the graph. If there is no hook point then that chart cannot change. For example Windrose chart does not switch.

Different dates can be compared with some charts. If there is a compare dates option in the menu dropdown (context menu, top right) then choosing this option will display a chart that compares the two dates in the From and To fields of the chart.

Charts can be reloaded by choosing the reload option in the context menu.

Some charts can have real time updates by choosing the realtime update option in the context menu. This feature is particularly effective with the windrose.

Some charts can be displayed as radial charts by choosing the radial chart option in the context menu.

Most charts can be automatically updated at a 1 minute interval by choosing the Auto Update option in the context menu.

Changing the dates in From and To fields will change what is displayed based on what the span is. Most useful when displaying charts with yearly spans.

Holding the left mouse down allows the chart to be scrolled left to right within the chosen span. Using this feature with the zoom selector allows a user to drill down into the chart.