Thanks, John, I wasn't trying to complain about your tags. I'm not a programmer and frequently get things in the wrong place and thought maybe this was a misstep on my part. No problem. I really like your software. Cheers, Bob
On Friday, August 14, 2026 at 3:46:36 PM UTC-4 John Kline wrote: > Bob, > > 6.11.1 is released. It has the tags removed. > > weewx-loopdata 6.11.1 > > > The sample report drops the loopdata field names printed under each > gauge. Drop-in upgrade: install over 6.x, no configuration changes, no > fields line touched. Nothing outside the sample skin changes, and a > skin you copied and customized is untouched. > > > [image: The LoopData sample report: a live instrument panel.png] > <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chaunceygardiner/weewx-loopdata/master/LoopDataReport.png> > > What's new > > - The field captions are gone. Each gauge carried a line naming the > loopdata fields it reads — current.outTemp · current.outTemp.raw and > the like. They were meant as a key to what the panel reads, but on a > live page they read as a template that had failed to render: one user > wrote in asking which part of his install was broken. The mapping now > lives in the manual, under > What each gauge reads > > <https://chaunceygardiner.github.io/weewx-loopdata/sample-skin.html#what-each-gauge-reads> > . > - Troubleshooting covers a single gauge missing its needle. A fields > line carried over an upgrade is already in the manual, but only as the > whole panel losing its needles, bands and windrose — so nobody whose > panel is fine except for one dial finds it. A hand-tuned fields line > short one .raw field costs exactly one needle, which is what the > same user hit. See > One gauge has no needle, and the others are fine > > <https://chaunceygardiner.github.io/weewx-loopdata/troubleshooting.html#one-gauge-has-no-needle-and-the-others-are-fine> > . > > > Requirements > > - WeeWX 4 or 5 (translations need WeeWX 4.6 or later) > - Python 3.7 or later > - No third-party Python packages required > - Satellite almanac fields (almanac.iss.next_pass... and friends) need > weewx-skyfield <https://github.com/chaunceygardiner/weewx-skyfield> > registered as the almanac; every other almanac field works with > PyEphem or WeeWX's built-in almanac, as always > > > Installing/upgrading > > Download weewx-loopdata.zip > <https://github.com/chaunceygardiner/weewx-loopdata/releases> > and install it over your existing copy, then restart weewxd: > > weectl extension install weewx-loopdata.zip > > (or wee_extension --install weewx-loopdata.zip on WeeWX 4). > > On Aug 14, 2026, at 12:00 PM, John Kline <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Bob, > > The captions below are working as designed. They are the tags of the > loopdata fields that each gauge reads. > > Now, just because it is working as designed, doesn’t mean it is a good > design. I’ll release a 6.11.1 today without the tags. > > John > > On Aug 14, 2026, at 11:52 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > *addendum to first message*: > I have removed my "fields" and replaced them with your list in the sample. > Everything looks better. all gauges seem to be working and updating live > data. Needles seem to be correct on all. The only remaining problem is the > text under the gauges which still displays the x.x.raw variables instead of > text. The only exception is the wind rose which is displaying the text > correctly. Hope this helps. Thanks > > On Friday, August 14, 2026 at 10:50:02 AM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > >> Great, John, very nice look! >> However, I am having a problem with my display page. The gauges are live >> and displaying real time but there are several display problems which >> indicate I don't have everything installed correctly. >> >> 1. The rain rate gauge has no needle indicator. The other gauges have >> needles even the rain which is "0" >> 2. Under most of the gauges I have the variables showing (x.x.raw) rather >> than the text they should display. see: http://grattans.org/wx/loopdata/ (15 >> minute archive) >> >> Any suggestions about where to look for the cause would be helpful. >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Cheers, >> Bob >> >> >> >> On Thursday, August 13, 2026 at 5:22:43 PM UTC-4 John Kline wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> >>> weewx-loopdata 6.11 is out. It is a looks-only release: the sample >>> report's dark theme was washed out, and now it isn't. Readouts are white, >>> the numerals and labels around each dial are brighter, the recessed track >>> that makes a dial look like a dial is actually visible, and the windrose's >>> calmest band no longer disappears into the disc. The field captions under >>> each gauge lose an opacity that had them sitting under the accessibility >>> threshold for text their size. >>> >>> >>> Before and after, same station, same loop packet — 6.10 on the left, >>> 6.11 on the right: >>> >>> [image: The sample report in 6.10 beside 6.11] >>> <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chaunceygardiner/weewx-loopdata/master/LoopDataReport-6.10-6.11.png> >>> >>> >>> The windrose is also the same size as the other eleven gauges now, with >>> its N/E/S/W letters moved inside the disc. It had been drawn a little >>> smaller on purpose, matched to the boundary the eye read back when a dial's >>> own edge was invisible — which stopped being the right boundary the moment >>> the dials got their contrast back. >>> >>> >>> Nothing outside the sample skin changes: no configuration, no fields >>> line, no python. It is a drop-in upgrade, and a skin you copied and >>> customized keeps whatever palette you gave it. >>> >>> >>> Release notes: >>> >>> https://github.com/chaunceygardiner/weewx-loopdata/releases/tag/v6.11 >>> https://github.com/chaunceygardiner/weewx-loopdata >>> >> > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/2693d850-9b33-4194-b3c4-0dc5c945d9edn%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/2693d850-9b33-4194-b3c4-0dc5c945d9edn%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 [email protected]. 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