weewx skins

[Anthony Fandino]

  I have begun a small project of putting a remote weather station on my farm.

I am using RSYNC to transfer data to my webserver. My question is how can I use another skin on my webserver other than the rsync skin. I see that in the Rsync skin.conf file there is a hook into weewx.reportengine.RsyncGenerator. There I see the backend functions to rsync the files to the remote server. I really like you responsive skin and would like to try to adapt it for my web server. Would all I have to do is add into the generators section  “weewx.reportengine.RsyncGenerator “ to the end of the of the skin.conf file and modify weewx.conf file to add the needed info in the progressive skin definition? Any advice will help. Also is there any guide on how to change skins in weewx?

Thank you

Anthony Fandino

[Tor rin]

Just Google "WeeWx Skins", you will find a bunch of them and most are fairly simple to install.  Good ones will have easy directions.  I use Pat O'Briens excellent Belchertown Skin and it had great instructions

[Andrew Milner]

The rsync skin is really a special kind of skin just for external transfers.  The instructions for using it are in the form of comments within weewx.conf .  If you change nothing after doing a standard install then weewx will use the seasons skin for creating web pages and the rsync skin for outputting the data to an external site - so you are already using two different skins.  you should not need to alter the generators section of weewx.conf.  To change the reprts generated - use different skins etc then yes, edit [StdReport] section of weewx.conf.

[Pat]

You can have multiple skins running on a single weewx install. Here's a list of the skins from the weewx Github wiki. Most are installed using the wee_extension command which makes it easy to get started.