Ah, yes! That would explain the symptoms. I forgot that Peter had upgraded neowx.
Peter: I think Vince is right: the modern neowx skin depends on a modern version of WeeWX. On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 10:53 AM vince <vinceska...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sure, but 3.9 doesn't know of the newer %Y syntax that the current (new) > skin that is failing uses. > > He can: > > - hack the new/current version of the skin to use the old YYYY format > that 3.9 knows of > - Or go back to running the old skin on the old weewx > - Or better yet get current and run v5 weewx and the new skin that > matches it > > But old weewx and new format template naming isn't gonna work. Weewx is > backward compatible, but it's not forward compatible. > > On Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:41:01 AM UTC-8 Tom Keffer wrote: > >> You remember right, except that the old 'YYYY', 'MM', etc., names are >> still honored. >> >> Besides, he has not upgraded his copy of WeeWX. He's still on V3.9. >> >> On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 9:29 AM vince <vince...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> "*My suspicion is that weewx is not handling the %Y and %Y-%m template >>> files properly."* >>> >>> Tom - it's been literally years, but I remember some kind of breaking >>> change that happened along those lines way back when and the fix was to >>> rename filenames on the template files in pre-existing skins. >>> >>> FWIW - surfing the neowx github site(s), the old original neowx skin >>> file names in the format of "NOAA-YYYY-MM.txt.tmpl >>> <https://github.com/neoground/neowx/blob/master/src/NOAA/NOAA-YYYY-MM.txt.tmpl>" >>> and the like. The new ones uses the % syntax for year/month in the >>> filename name. My very hazy recollection is that at some point in time I >>> had to rename things in old skins to use the new syntax. >>> >>> My guess (guess) is that to use the new neowx skin on the old weewx he >>> has to rename the neowx templates the other way to use the old syntax for >>> file naming. >>> >>> From the install.py file for the current neowx: >>> 'skins/neowx-material/archive/NOAA-%Y.txt.tmpl', >>> 'skins/neowx-material/archive/NOAA-%Y-%m.txt.tmpl' >>> >>> For the new skin on old ancient weewx, I'd try renaming them to the old >>> filename syntax ala: >>> 'skins/neowx-material/archive/NOAA-YYYY.txt.tmpl', >>> 'skins/neowx-material/archive/NOAA-YYYY-MM.txt.tmpl' >>> >>> Worst that happens is it doesn't work :-) >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "weewx-user" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to weewx-user+...@googlegroups.com. >>> >> To view this discussion visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/998b9ae9-cf90-47c5-91c0-587f532d151dn%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/998b9ae9-cf90-47c5-91c0-587f532d151dn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/8dd66ca8-0222-4a2b-a1ad-32f16f03bf63n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/8dd66ca8-0222-4a2b-a1ad-32f16f03bf63n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAPq0zEAJ3d8JDhMcz%2BuMsapiK6JRgPHwMhh81oo47778y2oTOg%40mail.gmail.com.
