Skymap Almanac Extension

[Karen K]

I added a little example skin to weewx-skymap-almanac showing how to use it. It contains a little bit animation to show the possibilities.

[Tom Keffer]

So cool! Very clever use of WeeWX tags!

On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM Karen K <kk44...@gmail.com> wrote:

I added a little example skin to weewx-skymap-almanac showing how to use it. It contains a little bit animation to show the possibilities.

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[Tom Hogland]

I think I found a bug in the doc page... Your example weewx.conf has this:

HTML_ROOT = /var/www/html/skymap

... but the directory you're told to create is:

mkdir /etc/weewx/skins/Skymap

...which probably won't work :-)

[vince]

Why not ?

 HTML_ROOT is where the generated files are written into.  You’re being told to make the directory to copy the example skin starting point into so the skin is fully installed.

This one is a little unusual in making you do that. Most skins install everything via the extension installer.

[Tom Hogland]

Because /var/www/html/skymap isn't the same as /var/www/html/Skymap. Need to either capitalize HTML_ROOT or lower-case the directory you're creating.

[Karen K]

Please note, that this is an example skin only. That is the reason it is not installed via the extension installer. 

/etc/weewx/skins/Skymap (in case of the package installation, otherwise the skin directory of your installation) is the directory the source files of the skin are stored. In contrary HTML_ROOT is the directory where WeeWX saves the files it creates. They are completely independent. You can even leave out the definition of HTML_ROOT in the skin section, which results in creating the file in /var/www/html/weewx by default.

[michael.k...@gmx.at]

Simply lovely.

[Karen K]

I added a table of heavenly bodies to the example skin with buttons to highlight the bodies on the map. Now I hope that will inspire the skin authors to come up with creative almanac pages.

[Sean Curry]

Thanks Karen, this looks great, and does give me some ideas on additional almanac pages. I did have to add some astronomical Units Conversions to my extensions.py file - not sure if I was missing something or not.

Sean

[Karen K]

Sean Curry schrieb am Mittwoch, 24. Dezember 2025 um 17:49:16 UTC+1:

 I did have to add some astronomical Units Conversions to my extensions.py file - not sure if I was missing something or not.

I updated weewx-skyfield-almanac today, and there are the unit conversions included.