My old wview station is now a weewx station and is now on line

[Gerard Cerchio]

Hi all! I ran my Davis Vantage VU on wview for many years. Due to living across the street from the ocean, the Davis finally did rust out. I decided to revive the station after 5 years of downtime when I found you can get all new guts for the vantage vu for under $100.00 dollars. Here is my weewx install. Here is my old wview.

I do like the mix of graphs and gauges on the wview site and I would like to add a set of round gauges to the new weewx site. The only round gauges I can find for weewx are the Steel Gauges skin. I am a retired embedded programmer, not at web designer. I am willing to have a go at integrating the steel gauge graphics into the weewx Standard skin, but I am concerned that I am going to run into namespace conflicts among the configuration files that would make the task near impossible.

So I am asking the group: Am I embarking on a fool hardy endeavor or do you web experts believe such an integration is plausible? Any direction, hints and advice is appreciated.

Just to establish my level of html ignorance, I have yet to get the background image in my weewx masthead cell to auto size to the entire cell, but I am working on it :).

[p q]

It's not difficult. I had zero experience with HTML/CSS/Javascript before I started messing around with Weewx. I embedded the SteelSeries gauges in my page and it was pretty easy, though it was 5 years ago so I don't remember the details.

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Peter Quinn
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[Gerard Cerchio]

Thanks for the quick reply, Peter. Would you please post your station so I may peruse the html?

[vince]

Lots of people embed gauges etc. of various types, so that's pretty guaranteed to work for you too.

Simplest thing to do is to use the Standard skin as your starting point, then save it as a name unique to you so it's not going to get overwritten by future weewx updates.  Bonus points if you use the extension installer to install your skin then it's a one-liner to add/delete the skin.  Nowadays maybe the Seasons skin would be a better starting point, but there's no bad answer.

FWIW - if you're new to weewx, personally I'd recommend just going with Belchertown as your skin.   Still my fave look'n'feel.

[Gerard Cerchio]

Thanks much vince & Peter. I'm going to give the gauges a try.

On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 1:27:19 PM UTC-7 peterq...@gmail.com wrote:

I think you can get to it via the ip address http://76.14.100.100/weewx/index.html

I don't have a public DNS entry

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[Gerard Cerchio]

Here is an update on my gauge attempt. I am using  vinceskahan / vds-weewx-local-skin gauge and Mikhus / canvas-gauges  and am quite happy with what I have. I display the current wind gust as a yellow highlight on the Wind Speed gauge and use 2 vertical gauges for weekly and annual rainfall. FYI I generate the xtide chart once a day in a chron job that rm's the old png and generates a new one at 2:03AM every day. If you don't delete the old png xtide helpfully appends the new image to the back of the the existing image.

San Francisco Ocean Beach

[vince]

Nice. I like the rainfall ones a lot.

If you check out line 522 (here) you'll see the javascript for how I add color bands to the gauges in mine to reflect the week's min/max and the alltime min/max, which can be fun to look at too.

I also added a screengrab (here) - for Temperature this week's range is 50-82F and the alltime is 18-106F.  The white band with the needle is this week.  The orange bands are the outside min/max of alltime.