Ok now I’m generating a .png with the info in the right position, but the image 
is not present

So now I’m my webcam folder I have to orignal jpg image, a svg and a png with 
the text and no pictures.

I have done everything mentioned 


> move the template "snap.svg.tmpl" to the "webcam" sub-directory in your skin 
> directory (something like "/etc/weewx/skins/...”).à
So now the snap.svg.tmpl is residing in /etc/weewx/skins/Belchertown/webcam
> 
> Change the template line to "template = webcam/snap.svg.tmpl”.
Changed that in the skin.conf
> Change the file line to "file = webcam/snap".
Changed that in the skin.conf
> Double check "href="/webcam/snap.jpg"". Are you sure that is situated in the 
> root directory? May be you want to remove the slash at the beginning.
And remove the / so now is reads "href="webcam/snap.jpg"

So what I’m I missing?


> On 8 Oct 23, at 14:59, Karen K <kk4468...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> There is a path problem. First, use "file" with a relative path, i.e. without 
> "/var/www/html/weewx". Then, according to the template "snap.svg" is situated 
> in the base directory (I guess "/var/www/html/weewx"). But you look for it in 
> the "webcam" sub-directory.
> 
> So
> move the template "snap.svg.tmpl" to the "webcam" sub-directory in your skin 
> directory (something like "/etc/weewx/skins/...").
> Change the template line to "template = webcam/snap.svg.tmpl".
> Change the file line to "file = webcam/snap".
> Double check "href="/webcam/snap.jpg"". Are you sure that is situated in the 
> root directory? May be you want to remove the slash at the beginning.
> Lorin Tremblay schrieb am Sonntag, 8. Oktober 2023 um 18:00:27 UTC+2:
>> Thank was able to install it, now I know I’m close but I’m missing something.
>> 
>> Trying to add the info to my webcam with belchertown skins
>> 
>> Here is my webcam file path.
>> /var/www/html/weewx/webcam/snap.jpg
>> 
>> Here is the content of my snap.svg.tmpl 
>> <https://github.com/roe-dl/weewx-svg2png/blob/master/examples/webcam-with-weather-data/webcam.svg.tmpl>
>> 
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
>> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" 
>> "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd";>
>> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; version="1.1" width="2688" 
>> height="1512" viewBox="0 0 2688 1512">
>>   <style>
>>     text {
>>         font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;
>>         font-weight: 300;
>>         line-height: 1.625;
>>         margin: 0;
>>         font-size: 48px;
>>         fill: white;
>>     }
>>   </style>
>>   ## webcam image
>>   <image x="0" y="0" width="2688" height="1512" href="/webcam/snap.jpg" />
>>   ## readings
>>   <text x="2400" y="1450" text-anchor="middle">$current.outTemp 
>> $current.windSpeed $current.barometer</text>
>> </svg>
>> 
>> 
>> And here is the skin.conf
>> 
>>     [SVGtoPNGGenerator]
>>         [[file1]]
>>             # file name without extension (optional)
>>             file = /var/www/html/weewx/webcam/snap
>>             # image width in pixels (optional)
>>             #width = replace_me
>>             # image height in pixels (optional)
>>             #height = replace_me
>> 
>> 
>>        [[[file1]]]
>>             template = snap.svg.tmpl
>> 
>> [Generators]
>>     generator_list = weewx.cheetahgenerator.CheetahGenerator, 
>> weewx.reportengine.CopyGenerator, user.belchertown.HighchartsJsonGenerator, 
>> user.svg2png.SVGtoPNGGenerator
>> 
>> 
>> The .svg is getting created but not the png….
>> 
>> Is there something to do with files path?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 8 Oct 23, at 01:45, Karen K <kk44...@gmail.com <>> wrote:
>>> 
>> 
>>> I uploaded a fix. Please try again.
>>> 
>>> You can also copy svg2png.py to /usr/share/weewx/user by hand.
>>> 
>>> Lorin Tremblay schrieb am Sonntag, 8. Oktober 2023 um 02:41:03 UTC+2:
>>>> I'm personally getting this error when I try to install it
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Request to install '/home/pi/Desktop/weewx-svg2png.zip'
>>>> Extracting from zip archive /home/pi/Desktop/weewx-svg2png.zip
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>   File "/usr/share/weewx/wee_extension", line 92, in <module>
>>>>     main()
>>>>   File "/usr/share/weewx/wee_extension", line 84, in main
>>>>     ext.install_extension(options.install)
>>>>   File "/usr/share/weewx/weecfg/extension.py", line 130, in 
>>>> install_extension
>>>>     self.install_from_dir(extension_dir)
>>>>   File "/usr/share/weewx/weecfg/extension.py", line 150, in 
>>>> install_from_dir
>>>>     installer_path, installer = 
>>>> weecfg.get_extension_installer(extension_dir)
>>>>   File "/usr/share/weewx/weecfg/__init__.py", line 1904, in 
>>>> get_extension_installer
>>>>     installer = loader()
>>>>   File "/var/tmp/weewx-svg2png-master/install.py", line 8, in loader
>>>>   File "/var/tmp/weewx-svg2png-master/install.py", line 12, in __init__
>>>> NameError: name 'SNMPInstaller' is not defined
>>>> 
>>>> I personally want to add the weather data to snapshot of my webcam…
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On 7 Oct 23, at 02:47, Karen K <kk44...@ <>gmail.com <http://gmail.com/>> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> I added another example. It shows how to put WeeWX weather data onto a 
>>>>> webcam picture.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Webcam picture with WeeWX weather readings 
>>>>> <https://github.com/roe-dl/weewx-svg2png/tree/master/examples/webcam-with-weather-data>
>>>>> 
>>>>> Stefan Gliessmann schrieb am Donnerstag, 5. Oktober 2023 um 14:21:44 
>>>>> UTC+2:
>>>>>> 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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