Awesome!

I will give it a shoot later and let you know :)

Thanks in advance for your contributions!!!!

On Tuesday, October 3, 2023 at 4:15:11 PM UTC+2 Karen K wrote:

> If there is a link in a social media post, sites like Twitter (X), 
> Mastodon and others show a preview image or thumbnail of the linked page. 
> For a long time I wondered how to define that image. Then I found out they 
> look for special "meta" statements within the page header. I included such 
> statements in my weather website, and indeed, the respective images were 
> displayed.
>
> I used a screenshot for that purpose. But the screenshot said 3,8°C, and 
> it's summer time and temperatures are much higher. And I wondered how to 
> get actual data into that screenshot. So I thought I could create an SVG 
> file using the CheetahGenerator functionality of WeeWX, and convert it to 
> PNG afterwards. I found the CairoSVG package to do the converting job. 
>
> But how to do the conversion after WeeWX created the SVG file, but before 
> WeeWX sends the data to the web server?
>
> The answer is to write a generator for use in skins. And that's it: 
> weewx-svg2png <https://github.com/roe-dl/weewx-svg2png>
>
> Now I look what is happening, and meanwhile I publish the generator here.
>

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