It would be interesting what the above plot would have looked like with 
using discrete marks.

[email protected] schrieb am Freitag, 10. Oktober 2025 um 22:10:49 UTC+2:

> Tom,
> Thank you. That change made a big difference. Except for a Weewx update 
> nothing changed except the outdoor sensor unit. I have not touched the 
> Standard Skin that I remember. Perhaps when I first created my weather 
> station but that was too long ago (8 years) to remember. 
> Glad you were there to help... appreciated,
> Den
> ... I am going to monitor other near by stations and see if we agree on 
> wind direction.
>  
>
> On Friday, October 10, 2025 at 3:36:44 PM UTC-4 Tom Keffer wrote:
>
>> If you did not change anything except the ISS, I don't have an 
>> explanation. 
>>
>> The Standard skin uses a continuous line to display wind direction, which 
>> is not a very good choice. Much better is to use discrete marks, which is 
>> what the Seasons skin does. That will make the display look much better.
>>
>> Go into the file /etc/weewx/skins/Standard/skin.conf and change this
>>
>> [[[daywinddir]]]
>>     # Hardwire in the y-axis scale for wind direction
>>     yscale = 0.0, 360.0, 45.0
>>     [[[[windDir]]]]
>>
>> to this
>>
>> [[[daywinddir]]]
>>     # Hardwire in the y-axis scale for wind direction
>>     yscale = 0.0, 360.0, 45.0
>>     line_type = None
>>     marker_type = box
>>     marker_size = 2
>>     [[[[windDir]]]]
>>
>> Do the same thing for sections [[[weekwinddir]]], [[[monthwinddir]]], and 
>> [[[yearwinddir]]] in the same file.
>>
>> That should help a lot.
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM '[email protected]' via weewx-user <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I replaced my Davis Vantage Pro 2 Exterior Sensor Suite with a Vantage 
>>> Vue Sensor Suite due to hardware failures. Since then my Weewx Day Wind 
>>> Direction graph (daywind.png) has been unreadable due to constantly jumping 
>>> up and down full scale (see image)
>>> The Vue Sensor suite is aimed in the correct direction (solar panel to 
>>> the south).
>>> Attached is my config file, that did not change, and  the syslog.
>>> I hope there is a simple solution that you can help me with...
>>> Everything else seems to be functioning as expected.
>>> Thanks for considering this issue..
>>> [image: daywinddir.png]
>>>
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