A theme and a translation release: the Sky page gains a theme option — dark (the default), light, or auto, which follows the sun at generation time; a complete Dutch translation ships (Beta, awaiting native-speaker review — corrections and reviewers very welcome); the French translation, its review now complete, drops its Beta label; and every radians-valued almanac angle now also answers in decimal degrees ($almanac.moon.parallactic_angle.degrees). Drop-in upgrade from any 1.x — install over it, no config changes; at the default theme the page looks as before (one caption is reworded, see below).
The Sky page has a theme.
theme = dark | light | autoin the[[SkyfieldReport]]section ofweewx.conf:darkis the night plate the page has always had and stays the default;lightrenders the whole page — panels included — on the paper-atlas plate the embeddable panels have offered since 1.5;autopicks light while the sun is up at the moment the page is generated and dark otherwise. The page regenerates every report cycle, so the auto flip follows sunrise and sunset within one archive interval — the colors are baked in at generation time, still with no JavaScript. Asked for by a Belchertown user whose skin switches themes the same way (issue #3).[StdReport] [[SkyfieldReport]] theme = autoWith the light plate in play, the Rise & Set caption no longer names its tick's color — "the tick across each bar is the transit" — since the tick is ivory only on the dark plate. Reworded in all languages.
Dutch ships (Beta).
lang/nl.confis a complete translation: the page prose, every panel string, the body names and all 88 constellation names, which follow the Dutch Wikipedia'sLijst van sterrenbeelden (the IAU standardizes only the Latin names). The moon phases and compass points are as in WeeWX's own Dutch lang file, so a Dutch station reads consistently across skins. One line turns it on:[StdReport] [[SkyfieldReport]] lang = nlBeta until a native speaker has reviewed it — corrections are very welcome as issues or pull requests. Tests keep the Dutch complete the same way they keep the German and French: new strings cannot ship untranslated.
French is out of Beta. The native-speaker review is complete and confirmed the translation as shipped.
Degrees on every radians angle. The PyEphem-shaped angles —
parallactic_angle, the moon'slibration_lat/libration_long/colong, Jupiter'scmlI/cmlII, Saturn'searth_tilt/sun_tilt, and$almanac.separation(...)— now carry the same answer in decimal degrees: append.degrees($almanac.moon.parallactic_angle.degrees);.radiansnames the value itself. The values are unchanged plain floats in radians, matching PyEphem's numeric scale, so existing templates — including themath.degrees($...)idiom and the PyEphem-style explicit call$almanac.venus.parallactic_angle()— keep working. The parens-freeparallactic_anglenow also resolves outside Cheetah, so loopdata almanac fields can readalmanac.moon.parallactic_angle.degrees. Asked for by a user.Docs: where Earth's coordinates live. The body lists now say explicitly that there is no
$almanac.earth— Earth is the observer, not a served body (PyEphem has no Earth body either) — and point to$almanac.sun.hlongitude/hlatitude, which report Earth's heliocentric coordinates per the XEphem convention.
- Python 3.9 or later
- WeeWX 5.2 or later
- Skyfield (1.47 or later) and NumPy in WeeWX's Python environment (see the README); PyEphem is NOT required
Download weewx-skyfield.zip from this release, then:
weectl extension install weewx-skyfield.zip
Restart WeeWX. No weewx.conf changes are needed when upgrading from 1.x. Note that upgrading replaces the bundled skin (skins/Skyfield/, including its lang/ files) — if you have edited an installed lang file (trying out corrections, say), save a copy or send the corrections upstream first; local additions such as extra star names survive upgrades best as [[[Almanac]]]entries in weewx.conf (see the manual).