File location and ROOT error with Belchertown Skin

[Eric Gammeter]

Trying to get Belchertown skin to run, continual file location problem (file not found)

Debug info has all log, info and file list information.  No joy after multiple installation attempts.  Please let me know what you find.

Thank you-

/Eric

[Vince Skahan]

    [[StandardReport]]
    # This is the old "Standard" skin. By default, it is not enabled.
    # skin = Standard
    # enable = false
   

 You need to comment it all out, or leave it uncommented and set enable=false.

[Eric Gammeter]

[[StandardReport]]
    # This is the old "Standard" skin. By default, it is not enabled.
    # skin = Standard
    # enable = false
   

    [[Belchertown]]
        skin = Belchertown
        HTML_ROOT = /var/www/html/weewx/belchertown

        enable = true

What part of StandardReport is not commented-out? 

[Tom Keffer]

Commenting out the "enable" option causes a report to be run.

I know this is counter-intuitive, but this is for backwards compatibility. The option was introduced in V3.6. Before that, the only way to disable a report was to delete or comment out the entire report section, which in some cases was dozens of lines. To maintain backwards compatibility required this behavior.

Set it to:

[[StandardReport]]
    # This is the old "Standard" skin. By default, it is not enabled.

    skin = Standard
    enable = false

-tk

On Wed, Apr 1, 2026 at 4:32 AM Eric Gammeter <n8a...@gmail.com> wrote:

[[StandardReport]]
    # This is the old "Standard" skin. By default, it is not enabled.
    # skin = Standard
    # enable = false
   
    [[Belchertown]]
        skin = Belchertown
        HTML_ROOT = /var/www/html/weewx/belchertown

        enable = true

What part of StandardReport is not commented-out? 

On Tuesday, March 31, 2026 at 2:50:27 PM UTC-4 Vince Skahan wrote:

    [[StandardReport]]
    # This is the old "Standard" skin. By default, it is not enabled.
    # skin = Standard
    # enable = false
   

 You need to comment it all out, or leave it uncommented and set enable=false.

On Tuesday, March 31, 2026 at 11:29:47 AM UTC-7 Eric Gammeter wrote:

Trying to get Belchertown skin to run, continual file location problem (file not found)

Debug info has all log, info and file list information.  No joy after multiple installation attempts.  Please let me know what you find.

Thank you-

/Eric

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[Vince Skahan]

Eric - you defined a [[StandardReport]] but did not tell the report generator where to find the skin.conf file in the appropriate subdirectory under the /etc/weewx/skins directory.

To have that report known to the report generator, but skipped, simply set enable=false ala:

[[StandardReport]]

   skin = Standard

   enable = false

To undefine that report completely, you could have commented it 'all' out ala:

# [[StandardReport]]

#   skin = Standard

#   enable = false

But your half-way variant is not valid.   Leave it uncommented and enable=false, or comment the whole report definition out completely.  The half-way measure you tried is not valid.