Belchertown on latest version of Chromium

[Paul Eaton]

Hi

Not so much a question this rather an observation, but I'd be interested if anyone else has seen the same anomaly.

I've been happily running WeeWX (currently 4.5.1) for 12 months now on a RPi4B using both the Seasons and Belchertown skins. I've just updated from Buster to Bullseye (fresh install) and re-installed WeeWX (4.5.1) together with Belchertown (1.2). Everything is running fine except for a specific issue when using the latest version of Chromium shipped with Bullseye i.e. 92.0.4515.98.

If I navigate to the Belchertown homepage on Chromium it fails to load the 7 Day Forecast icons and also the dates below Weather Records Snapshot are missing.

But if I use the Epiphany browser on the RPi using the same link everything shows up correctly - the full 7 Day Forecast and Snapshot dates are all loaded.

The two attached screenshots show what I get.

If I connect via my local intranet using my Ubuntu PC (Firefox) or Android tablet (Chrome) I also get the full page loading correctly.

(Note: Didn't have this problem with Buster.)

No big deal, just curious, still enjoying my WeeWx experience!

Paul

[p q]

What does the dev tools console on Chromium show you in terms of error messages? There are probably some clues there.

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[vince]

I have seen this in Home Assistant on a pi.  The fix there is to stop/restart the browser completely.

[Paul Eaton]

Thanks Peter and Vince for your comments.

I've looked at the dev tools console and there are indeed some errors:

The AudioContext was not allowed to start. It must be resumed (or created) after a user gesture on the page. https://goo.gl/7K7WLu

l @ radar.js:8

radar.js:8 The AudioContext was not allowed to start. It must be resumed (or created) after a user gesture on the page. https://goo.gl/7K7WLu

l @ radar.js:8

radar.js:18 The deviceorientation events are blocked by permissions policy. See https://github.com/w3c/webappsec-permissions-policy/blob/master/features.md#sensor-features

f @ radar.js:18

manifest.json:1 Manifest: property 'start_url' ignored, should be same origin as document.

There are also 2 Issues relating to "Audit usage of navigator.userAgent, navigator.appVersion, and navigator.platform.

I've no idea what they all mean and I don't expect anyone to even think about explaining to me what is going on!

I googled stopping/restarting Chromium and got confused by the various options of kill, pkill and killall and then how to restart it. From the various links it soon became obvious that there can be issues with Chromium accessing local files. Again I don't think this is the place to go any further. I certainly don't have the knowledge to make sense of it all.

One of the "solutions" I saw was to install Firefox ESR which is what I've done and that displays the Belchertown skin correctly.

Paul

[Paul Eaton]

Just for the record, the recent Chromium update to version 95.0.4638.78 has sorted the issue I had with the 7 day forecast. Everything loads correctly now.

Paul