Wind direction

[Mark Fraser]

In a template that I use for posting the weather to Mastodon, I have the line:

Wind speed: $current.windSpeed (ave), $current.windGust (gust) $current.windDir.ordinal_compass

Which should, according to https://weewx.com/docs/4.3/customizing.htm should just show:

Wind speed: 0.2 mph (ave), 2.3 mph (gust) W

But I'm still seeing:

Wind speed: 0.2 mph (ave), 2.3 mph (gust) W (259 deg)

[Glenn McKechnie]

On Sun, 15 Dec 2024 at 03:34, Mark Fraser <mfr...@gmail.com> wrote:

In a template that I use for posting the weather to Mastodon, I have the line:

Wind speed: $current.windSpeed (ave), $current.windGust (gust) $current.windDir.ordinal_compass

Which should, according to https://weewx.com/docs/4.3/customizing.htm should just show:

Wind speed: 0.2 mph (ave), 2.3 mph (gust) W

You are correct. That is the output from that line.

 

But I'm still seeing:

Wind speed: 0.2 mph (ave), 2.3 mph (gust) W (259 deg)

 

The tag ($current.windDir deg) will give you the (259 deg) style output.

Is that tag still in your template? If it's not, are you editing the correct template? 

Having been in the same (confusing) space before, I change, or add some random text to the template to make certain. If that doesn't propagate with the next mastodon post I know I'm looking in the wrong spot.

Cheers

 Glenn

Various WeeWx addons at
https://github.com/glennmckechnie

[Tom Keffer]

I tried

Wind speed: $current.windSpeed (ave), $current.windGust (gust) $current.windDir.ordinal_compass

and, as expected, got

Wind speed: 6 mph (ave), 12 mph (gust) W

I suspect that you're either editing the wrong template, or looking at the wrong output.

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[Mark Fraser]

On 14/12/2024 23:48, Tom Keffer wrote:

I tried

Wind speed: $current.windSpeed (ave), $current.windGust (gust) $current.windDir.ordinal_compass

and, as expected, got

Wind speed: 6 mph (ave), 12 mph (gust) W

I suspect that you're either editing the wrong template, or looking at the wrong output.

On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 8:34 AM Mark Fraser <mfr...@gmail.com> wrote:

In a template that I use for posting the weather to Mastodon, I have the line:

Wind speed: $current.windSpeed (ave), $current.windGust (gust) $current.windDir.ordinal_compass

Which should, according to https://weewx.com/docs/4.3/customizing.htm should just show:

Wind speed: 0.2 mph (ave), 2.3 mph (gust) W

But I'm still seeing:

Wind speed: 0.2 mph (ave), 2.3 mph (gust) W (259 deg)

Thanks Tom & Glenn,

That was the issue, I had 2 copies of that file and was editing the one that wasn't used.

Mark.