Belchertown Skin - "addons"

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Xant

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Aug 21, 2019, 5:20:42 PM8/21/19
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Belchertown Skin is a GREAT "nice, clean, modern and elegant dress" for WeeWX.

Could not praise more our "founders" Tom Keffler & Matt Wall for providing us WeeWX and Pat O'Brien for Belchertwon.

Pat left Belchertown very customizable, and the following are some "add-ons" (apologies if some items well known to the community).


Belchertown "add-ons":


1) Windy radar, other radar or WebCAM
  • skin.conf file
  • just point html using 'radar_html = '
2) Widgets
  • in 'index_hook_after_charts.inc", or other
  • there are many weather Widgets available, but DarkSky seems elegant & clean (good match for Belchertown theme)
3) Meteograms
  • in 'index_hook_after_charts.inc", or other
  • YR.no provides Meteograms for free; its nice, customizable, but no US units or dark mode
  • Meteoblue also provides Meteograms for free; but think to "cartoony" colors
  • Meteograms.com free till 500 hits/month; clean, customizable, transparency or dark mode (good match for Belchertown theme)
4) Radar
  • in 'index_hook_after_charts.inc", or other
  • Windy radar can be shown larger here (800px or 65% width seems Ok)
  • or RainViewer, which has a dark mode
5) Astrospheric
  • in 'index_hook_after_charts.inc", or other
  • this is a great app, which shows Sun/Moon sine wave path; looks great on computer screen, but unfortunately, doesn't behave well on mobile

Note of caution, play around, but don't over populate your weewx site.

Best,
Xant

Xant

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Aug 21, 2019, 8:47:14 PM8/21/19
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... addendum

For WebCAM, I use Lookr.com, which also provides a time-lapse video.

Tweaking with 'index.html.tmpl', as hardware also acquire "in" temp/hum, included out/in Temp/Hum in theme skin (ie, still provides (for me and family info), but 'separate' from the public wx posting.


Radek Dohnal

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Aug 26, 2019, 2:55:50 AM8/26/19
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How do you separe home / public web pages with weewx?

Xant

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Aug 26, 2019, 1:11:36 PM8/26/19
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What I meant is that in/out temp/hum is provided underneath the WebCAM, and not mixed with the other WX information.

This was done by tweaking the 'index.html.tmpl' file from Belchertown skin.

Best,
Xant
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