weewx-celestial Release v7.5

[John Kline]

weewx-celestial 7.5

A complete Dutch translation of the sample skin ships (Beta, awaiting native-speaker review — corrections and reviewers very welcome), and the migration utility now emits pinned-unit almanac fields. Drop-in upgrade from 7.x — install over it, no config changes, no loop-data field changes, and nothing to re-run if you already migrated; an English, German or French page looks exactly as before. Released alongside weewx-skyfield 1.15, which adds Dutch to the Sky page, and weewx-loopdata 6.6, which documents the unit segment the pinned spellings use.

What's new

• Dutch ships (Beta).  lang/nl.conf is a complete translation whose shared vocabulary — body names, moon phases, compass points and all 88 constellation names — is copied verbatim from weewx-skyfield's Dutch, and a test keeps the extensions in step (as it does for the German and French). Because the live loop-data values follow the language of loopdata's target report, one line switches the whole page, labels and live values alike:

  [StdReport]
      [[CelestialReport]]
          lang = nl
  

  Beta until a native speaker has reviewed it; corrections are very welcome as issues or pull requests.

  

• --migrate-loopdata-fields pins units. Raw times and durations now migrate to pinned-unit almanac entries — almanac.sunrise.unix_epoch.raw, almanac.sun.visible.second.raw, and so on — so they keep the old celestial loop fields' fixed meanings (epoch seconds, seconds of daylight) no matter how loopdata's target report units are set. An unpinned almanac .raw follows the target report's converter, so a report carrying [Units] [[Groups]] overrides (e.g. group_deltatime = hour) would silently change a migrated field's meaning. The pinned entries evaluate on every loopdata ≥ 5.0. If you migrated with an earlier version and your target report has no unit-group overrides, your fields are correct as they stand; if it does have overrides, adopt the pinned spellings.

Requirements

• Python 3.9 or later
• WeeWX 5.2 or later
• weewx-loopdata 5.0 or later
• weewx-skyfield strongly recommended (required for Proxima Centauri), or PyEphem

Installing/upgrading

Download weewx-celestial.zip from this release, then install right over the existing 7.x:

weectl extension install weewx-celestial.zip

Restart WeeWX. No weewx.conf changes are needed when upgrading from 7.x. (Upgrading from 6.x or earlier follows the README's upgrade instructions — those paths do need the uninstall step, and from 5.x the migration utility.)