Help with customization template changes

[galfert]

If I edit the following file:

/etc/weewx/skins/Standard/index.html.tmpl

What do I have to do to make my changes take effect? I've restarted WeeWX and the following file never gets my updates:

/var/www/html/weewx/index.html

[galfert]

Okay I've read through some documentation and it seems like the Cheetah Generator may be a clue. I just don't know how to force the Cheetah Generator to run and apply my changes.

[John Kline]

You can wait for a report cycle to happen (prob on the 5 minute boundary) or run wee_reports:

/etc/weewx/bin/wee_reports

Having said that, another reason for the change not to “take effect” is an error in the template.  If that happens, you’ll still see the old report (i.e., html file).  Have you checked the log?

On Aug 3, 2020, at 9:19 AM, galfert <gal...@gmail.com> wrote:

Okay I've read through some documentation and it seems like the Cheetah Generator may be a clue. I just don't know how to force the Cheetah Generator to run and apply my changes.

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[galfert]

Okay thank you for tip on running wee_reports. However it still didn't fix the problem. I discovered that I was editing the wrong template. I needed to instead edit the following:

/etc/weewx/skins/Seasons/index.html.tmpl

[Hans Cilker]

for normal you can see inside the weewx.conf file which skin is taken, at me its line 143 and further on to see.

...

[[SeasonsReport]]
        # The SeasonsReport uses the 'Seasons' skin, which contains the
        # images, templates and plots for the report.
        skin = Seasons
        enable = true

[Tom Keffer]

Templates get re-read with every reporting cycle (no need to restart weewxd). If you're not, it's because you're either editing the wrong file, or your browser is caching the page.

Plots get regenerated as often as their aggregation interval. But, you're reporting problems in the .html file, so I assume that's not the problem here.

-tk

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