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@chaunceygardiner chaunceygardiner released this 28 Jul 18:36
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weewx-loopdata 6.4

A feature release: the sample report is translatable through WeeWX lang
files, and a complete German translation ships. Drop-in upgrade — install
over 6.x; an English report looks exactly as before. The one action
required: if you customized [[BarometerTrendDescriptions]], see below —
that section is removed.

What's new

  • The sample report speaks your language. Every string the page
    renders — gauge headings, the LIVE badge, the readout lines under the
    dials, the compass and windrose cardinal letters — is now a gettext-style
    [Texts] key, translated through WeeWX's own lang-file mechanism. The
    English string is the key, so a partial translation falls back to English
    one string at a time. skins/LoopData/lang/en.conf is the reference
    dictionary; strings the live javascript composes are translated at
    generation time and fed to the script, so a translation touches no code.
  • German ships. lang/de.conf is a complete translation whose shared
    vocabulary is copied verbatim from the native-speaker-reviewed German of
    weewx-skyfield and weewx-celestial (a test keeps the three extensions in
    step). Select it with lang = de on the report's stanza in weewx.conf.
  • The two-language coupling, documented. The page's labels follow the
    sample report's lang, but the live values in loop-data.txt
    (.ordinal_compass, moon_phase, almanac.<body>.label, …) follow the
    language of loopdata's [LoopData] target report. Out of the box the
    two are the same report, and the shipped lang files carry the value-side
    sections (compass ordinates, moon phases, body and all 88 constellation
    names), so lang = de on [[LoopDataReport]] switches both; with a
    different target report, [StdReport] [[Defaults]] lang = de sets every
    report at once. The manual's new
    Translations page
    has the full story.
  • trend.barometer.desc translates the same way — and
    [[BarometerTrendDescriptions]] is gone.     The descriptions (Falling Slowly, Steady, …) are now gettext-style keys into the target
    report's [Texts], shipped in German in lang/de.conf, so they follow
    the target report's language like every other value.

Action required (only if you customized barometer trend descriptions)

The [LoopData] [[BarometerTrendDescriptions]] section in weewx.conf is
removed and now ignored — delete it. If you had custom wording, put it on
the target report's stanza instead:

[StdReport]
    [[LoopDataReport]]
        [[[Texts]]]
            "Steady" = "Holding steady"

If you never touched the section, there is nothing to do: the English
defaults are unchanged.

Requirements

  • WeeWX 4 or 5 (translations need WeeWX 4.6 or later)
  • Python 3.7 or later
  • No third-party Python packages required

Installing/upgrading

Download weewx-loopdata.zip
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).

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