WeeWX support of the Saratoga Weather Website templates

[gjr80]

After some recent collaboration with Ken True, the author of the Saratoga Weather Website templates, I am pleased to announce the Saratoga templates now include direct support for WeeWX through use of the WeeWX-Saratoga extension and the WEEWX-plugin. You can see WeeWX driven, working versions of the USA base templates here and the World base templates here.

This is a great step forward for those users that already use the Saratoga templates with WeeWX-WD or wish to use them in the future. No longer will your site have a split WeeWX/WeatherDisplay personality. By using the WeeWX-Saratoga extension and the WEEWX-plugin users now have out of the box support for:

- near realtime (loop based) updates of the Saratoga dashboard
- display of native WeeWX plots

- trouble free use of the template updates tool

- trouble free use of the built-in template maintenance tools

- the alternative dashboard

The WeeWX-Saratoga extension can be obtained from WeeWX-Saratoga extension releases page and the WeeWX-plugin is available for download from the Saratoga templates install page.

Migrating from a WeeWX-WD/Saratoga template setup should be straight forward. As far as WeeWX is concerned this involves replacing WeeWX-WD with the WeeWX-Saratoga extension; as far as the Saratoga templates are concerned the WeeWX-plugin needs to be installed and the updates tool used to update the Saratoga templates to the current release. New installations and migration from WeeWX-WD is covered in more detail in the WeeWX-Saratoga extension readme and the Saratoga templates WeeWX software setup and WEEWX-plugin config pages.

The WeeWX-Saratoga extension wiki will be used to cover details on the use and customization of the WeeWX-Saratoga extension. It is currently a work in progress only covering installation /uninstallation and migration from WeeWX-WD. In coming days it will include more information on customization of the extension.

The WeeWX-Saratoga extension is based upon much of the WeeWX-WD code (which was first written almost 10 years ago) but includes a lot of improvements/simplifications made possible through improvements to WeeWX (eg a far more extensive family of tags and the XTypes system). For this reason the WeeWX-Saratoga extension requires WeeWX v4.5.0 or later and operates under python2 or python3. Pyephem is also required. Given the release of the WeeWX-Saratoga extension I will no longer be developing WeeWX-WD and I will be removing reference to it from the WeeWX wiki.

Gary

[Tom Keffer]

This is great news, Gary!

Now you can get to work on internationalizing it! :-)

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[gjr80]

This should be an easy case to internationalize; the Saratoga templates already include such support, so internationalization should only come down to the WeeWX plots. Guess we need to let the dust settle on v4.6.0 :).

Gary