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Changing the unit of an observation for the whole skin

If you want to change the unit of an observation not only for the charts, but also for the stat tiles and tables, you need to make an adjustment like this to your weewx.conf.

The example will change the unit of rain from cm to mm.

[StdReport]
    ....
    [[WdcReport]]
        skin = weewx-wdc
        enable = true
	unit_system = metric
        [[[Units]]]
            [[[[Groups]]]]
                group_rain = mm

Other widespread changes are (from https://github.com/weewx/weewx/blob/master/weewx.conf#L258):

group_altitude     = meter              # Options are 'foot' or 'meter'
group_pressure     = mbar               # Options are 'inHg', 'mmHg', 'mbar', or 'hPa'
group_rain         = mm                 # Options are 'inch', 'cm', or 'mm'
group_rainrate     = mm_per_hour        # Options are 'inch_per_hour', 'cm_per_hour', or 'mm_per_hour'
group_temperature  = degree_C           # Options are 'degree_C', 'degree_F', or 'degree_K'

Changing the label of an observation for the whole skin

In order to change the label of an observation, lets say outTemp to My Outside Temp 1, you need to make some adjustments to yout weewx.conf.

The relevant section of the weewx.conf file is this Config:

[StdReport]
    ...
    [[Defaults]]
        lang = en
        ...
        [[[Labels]]]
            # Users frequently change the labels for these observation types
            [[[[Generic]]]]
                # inHumidity     = Inside Humidity
                # inTemp         = Inside Temperature

Just add an entry like this to [[[[Generic]]]]:

[StdReport]
    ...
    [[Defaults]]
        lang = en
        ...
        [[[Labels]]]
            # Users frequently change the labels for these observation types
            [[[[Generic]]]]
                # inHumidity     = Inside Humidity
                # inTemp         = Inside Temperature
                outTemp = My Outside Temp 1

Attention: This will only work if you do not have a value for lang in your [[WdcReport]] configuration. If you have something like lang = de, WeeWX will use the labels from the skins translation files. To override this, copy the [[[Labels]]] config directly to your [[WdcReport]] configuration, like this:

[[WdcReport]]
    skin = weewx-wdc
    enable = true
    lang = de
    [[[Labels]]]
        [[[[Generic]]]]
            outTemp = My Outside Temp 1

Setting HTML_ROOT and basePath

The HTML_ROOT setting in weewx.conf sets the path for the generated files and images (where the files should be generated on the machine). The default is /var/www/html/weewx/. You can override the setting for the wdc skin by setting the following:

[StdReport]
    [[WdcReport]]
        skin = weewx-wdc
        enable = true
        HTML_ROOT = /var/www/html/weewx/wdc

This will generate all files to /var/www/html/weewx/wdc.

The base_path setting in weewx-wdc/skin.conf is only relevant if you are accessing the wdc skin in a subdirectory of your web-server.

More on base_path see here: https://github.com/Daveiano/weewx-wdc/wiki/Configuration#extras

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