I'm not going to battle through a PDF. Sorry.
If the image is being generated, it sounds like all you want to do is add a
plot to the Seasons skin. Sorry can't help there. Don't use that skin.
I'm sure many others do.
On Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 8:45:09 AM UTC-7 Ralph Underwood wrote:
> I have attached a bit of log and the skin.conf and weewx..conf.
>
> The image file is being written to my website, however it does not display
> with the other plots. I have edited the plot groups order a couple of times
> as I tested things.
>
> I used apt to install weewx on an Rpi.
>
>
> On Monday, August 17, 2026 at 11:24:56 AM UTC-7 Vince Skahan wrote:
>
>> 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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