Impossible to say with such little information. No debug=1 logs. No
excerpts for purpleair from your weewx.conf either. No info on 'which'
purpleair extension you are running (there are a few). Insufficient info of
what you changed where re: the Seasons skin.
We can't read minds.
FWIW - I a modified version of Ken Baker's v0.1 extension. If you look at
the top of purpleair.py there are comments saying what your weewx.conf
should contain. It saves to its own db. Works fine.
On Monday, August 17, 2026 at 9:31:33 AM UTC-7 Ralph Underwood wrote:
> I have a PurpleAir air quality monitor. It was previously used at a
> vacation home connected to a WeeWx weather station. My memory of the setup
> was that it was pretty simple, install a Purple Air extension and data
> appeared and a graph was installed automagically.
>
>
> I do not remember the air quality stuff being in a separate database. I
> believe that I was using a 4.something version of WeeWx.
>
>
> Now I am trying to get it working with my home WeeWx installation. I
> installed the Purple extension and I can get data from it to display in my
> current.inc using a line :
>
> <td class=“data">$latest('purpleair_binding').pm2_5_cf_1</td>
>
>
> I have been trying to get the image generator to work with the PurpleAir
> and so far no joy.
>
> This is what I have in my Seasons skin.conf:
>
>
>
>
> [[[daypurpleair]]]
>
> [[[[pm2_5_cf_1]]]]
>
> data_binding = purpleair_binding
>
>
> I have purpleair in the plot groups.
>
>
>
> I am using WeeWx version 5.1.0 on RPi. I installed using pip.
>
>
> Any guess on what dumb thing I am missing?
>
>
> Is the separate database required or does the extended WeeWx schema work?
>
>
> Thanks for any guidance.
>
>
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