update post (wx station)

content/posts/2022-01-08-my-weather-station-with-weewx-and-netatmo/index.md

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ summary: >
   creates the [weather page](https://wx.oe7drt.com/) and also uploads my weather
   data to the [APRS-IS network](http://www.aprs-is.net/).
 date: 2022-01-08T14:34:54+01:00
+lastmod: 2022-12-25T23:26:41+01:00
 categories: [amateur-radio]
 tags: ["wx","linux"]
 
@@ -155,3 +156,96 @@ The link is also on the bottom of every page aswell and the website looks
 something like this:
 
 {{< figure src="wx-main.png" alt="website preview" >}}
+
+## Update on December 25, 2022
+
+My station runs for a while now and I wasn't sure if I continue using Netatmo
+for my weather station, but since the stations works quite well I bought a rain
+and wind sensor the recent days. The first test run went good and it was easy
+to implement the new devices.
+
+But there are a few notes to remember. As there are more than one point, I'll
+put them down into separate headings.
+
+### Change the comment visible on the aprs.fi website
+
+If you want to change the comment that is visible on `aprs.fi` you have to change
+the source of a python file within the WeeWX package. As I upgraded WeeWX when
+I installed the new devices that file got overwritten and it took me (again) a
+few moments to find the right place again. Now, for the future: the file I
+talk about is `/usr/share/weewx/weewx/restx.py` and you may look somewhere near
+the line 1285. I show you an excerpt of my current (already modified) file:
+
+~~~py {linenos=table,hl_lines="5-6",linenostart=1281}
+    else:
+          _radiation_str = ""
+
+      # Station equipment
+      #_equipment_str = ".weewx-%s-%s" % (weewx.__version__, self.station_type)
+      _equipment_str = "https://wx.oe7drt.com/"
+
+      _tnc_packet = ''.join([_prefix, _time_str, _latlon_str, _wt_str,
+                            _rain_str, _baro_str, _humid_str,
+                            _radiation_str, _equipment_str, "\r\n"])
+
+      # show the packet in the logs for debug
+      if weewx.debug >= 2:
+          log.debug("CWOP: packet: '%s'", _tnc_packet.rstrip('\r\n'))
+
+      return _tnc_packet
+~~~
+
+Line 5 and 6 (highlighted) shows the old and new line. Should work fine.
+
+### Install a new (and more modern) theme
+
+That actually looks like a modern website. Although, I had to re-create some
+entries for the sensor-images. As this sucks pain, I'll leave it with only
+having 1-day images. They are quite useless, but I may find another day.
+Or not, we will see...
+
+The name of the skin is [**NeoWX Material**](https://neoground.com/projects/neowx-material)
+and I like it very much. Another nice skin would be
+[Rabenwetter](https://rabenwetter.de/info.html) that you might have a look on too.
+
+But back to business :grin:
+
+The installation is very easy:
+
+- download  
+  <https://neoground.com/projects/neowx-material#section-download>
+
+- install
+  ~~~console
+  # wee_extension --install=neowx-material.zip
+  ~~~
+
+- restart
+  ~~~console
+  # systemctl restart weewx
+  ~~~
+
+I usually don't give this hint: note the `#` at the beginning of these command
+lines. That means to run those commands as **root**.
+
+Read [the docs](https://github.com/neoground/neowx-material#installation) and
+you should be good to go.
+
+I did already had the `python3-ephem` package installed, I used the Almanac pages
+already in the older (default) Seasons skin.
+
+~~~console
+# dnf install python3-ephem
+~~~
+
+The new theme looks like this:
+
+{{< figure src="wx-main_new.png" alt="preview of the new theme/skin" >}}
+
+### Some other thoughs
+
+I never got the correct information working on the
+[CWOP information page](https://weather.gladstonefamily.net/site/AV859) but I've
+seen this page showing the correct information now. Also the map is now filled
+with weather stations around my area (this has always been a place in the US
+that I wasn't able to change).