APT upgrade to WeeWX 5.0: Belchertown skin no longer working

[c bosshard]

Just FYI

APT upgraded my installation to WeeWx 5.0 and my Belchertown Skin 1.2 stopped working.

Everything else was still working and processing data...

What I did to fix it:

- Installed the latest Belchertown Skin 1.3.1 using weectl

- Upgdated my weewx.conf file to V5.0

Thank you to the WeeWx team for your hard work, happy user since 2016!

[Kevin Crivelli]

Very good to know as I plan on doing the upgrade myself. One question, how do you mean you upgrade the conf file? Did it not upgrade with the rest of the upgrade? 

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[matthew wall]

On Saturday, January 20, 2024 at 11:21:51 AM UTC-5 kevinjc...@gmail.com wrote:

Very good to know as I plan on doing the upgrade myself. One question, how do you mean you upgrade the conf file? Did it not upgrade with the rest of the upgrade?

the configuration file and the skins are explicitly *not* upgraded when you upgrade weewx

this is to reduce the chance of breaking anything, and to let you choose to upgrade them only if you want to

in the case of the config file, there is almost never a need to upgrade it.  when new features are added to weewx, they have sane defaults.

in the case of skins, you only need to upgrade if a specific skin has new features/functionality that you want, and then only when you are confident that upgrading the skin will not break your customizations (if any)

m