Belchertown on version 5.0 weewx

[Timothy LeCoq]

Going through the weewx version 5 documentation at.

https://weewx.com/docs/5.0/usersguide/installing-weewx/

Is it possible to install another skin such as Belchertown on weewx version 5?

I don't see the wee_extension installer or am I wrong?

Thank you for weewx and all the support on this forum.

[Greg from Oz]

I am running V5:

https://weather.ubeaut.work/

and also

https://weather.ubeaut.work/wdc

So yes you can have more than one skin.

[Timothy LeCoq]

Thank you for the reply

where is the wee_extension installer located to install the belchertown skin?

In version 4.x it was located under scripts, but I don't see the scripts directory.

Or am I wrong?

Thanks

[Greg from Oz]

Because it is in a virtual environmet: https://weewx.com/docs/5.0/quickstarts/pip/#install-in-a-virtual-environment

you run: source ~/weewx-venv/bin/activate (that puts you in the virtual environment)

If you type wee_ and hit tab twice you should see:

weectl        wee_database  wee_debug     wee_device    wee_import    wee_reports   weewxd       

The commands are here in bin.

~/weewx-venv/bin

and your data is in:

~/weewx-data

I haven't used the wee_extension under V5 as I just copied all my V4 data configs etc to the relevant directories in V5.

[Timothy LeCoq]

Thank you again,  but I am sorry to say that I do not see the wee_extension installer in the list that I can find. According to the belchertown install instructions, it seems to be required to use the wee_extension installer. 

[Greg from Oz]

Yes it is NOT there. Sorry I thought I saw it but that may have been on my V4/5 server that I kept the V4 on just in case.

I guess you just manually install the extension?

Like I said I haven't done it in V5. Good luck.

[vince]

Version 5 has different syntax.

Try:

    weectl extension install <filename>

If you are running with a pip installation in a python virtual environment, you need to activate the venv before running the weectl command.  You will likely need to install more python modules into the venv as well (most likely paho-mqtt if you use websockets and MQTT to make Belchertown live).

weectl docs are at https://weewx.com/docs/5.0/utilities/weectl-extension/ at this moment in time.

[Timothy LeCoq]

Thank you Vince. I will look at those docs. Appreciate the help