Solar block hide

[oldeflyer]

Hello,
I have CMX 3.27.1 b3263 and a Davis VP2. I do not have any solar or UV sensors. I wanted to get the solar/UV section off the default web page.
I did some searching and I found some information but I think the references were for a much older version, some were dated 2015.

Is it possible to easily remove the UV/solar sections from the default web page?

I am running CMX on a Raspberry Pi and the Geany editor comes up when I looked at the index.htm file.

Thanks for any information.
Wayne

[PaulMy]

Hi,
The original Cumulus website indexT.htm had

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  <!-- Solar data. If you don't have a solar sensor, you may wish to delete everything from here to the next comment -->
  <tr class="td_temperature_data">
    <td>Solar Radiation</td>
    <td><#SolarRad>&nbsp;W/m&sup2;</td>
    <td>Evapotranspiration Today</td>
    <td><#ET>&nbsp;<#rainunit></td>
  </tr>
  <!-- End of solar data -->

I am no coder but assume for the current CMX template you would need to edit/remove:
in index.htm

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										<tr class="w3-theme-l6 w3-hide" data-cmx-solar>
											<td>Solar Radiation</td>
											<td><span data-cmxdata="SolarRad"></span>&nbsp;W/m&sup2;</td>
											<td>Evapotranspiration Today</td>
											<td><span data-cmxdata="ET"></span>&nbsp;<span data-cmxdata="rainunit"></span></td>
										</tr>
										<tr class="w3-theme-l6 w3-hide" data-cmx-uv>
											<td>UV Index</td>
											<td><span data-cmxdata="UV"></span></td>
											<td></td>
											<td></td>
										</tr>

and similar in today.htm and yesterday.htm

Enjoy,
Paul

[mcrossley]

Just disabling them in Settings > Display Options > Data Visibility > Solar Data should do it.

[oldeflyer]

Mark,
I had already found those settings and out of the three choices they say 'Hidden' but still show up. I have restarted CMX several times since I set them and still no change.

They do NOT show up on the default web page, just the dashboard. I may have been misleading in the original post as I stated default web page but meant the default dashboard page.

Wayne

[oldeflyer]

I have tried each of the settings (Visible, Hidden, Dashboard only) under display for solar. There is no change before or after restarting CMX on the dashboard page or the default web page.

[PaulMy]

Hi,

I had already found those settings and out of the three choices they say 'Hidden' but still show up. I have restarted CMX several times since I set them and still no change.

They do NOT show up on the default web page, just the dashboard. I may have been misleading in the original post as I stated default web page but meant the default dashboard page.

Have you tried the Display Options > General Options and untick Display Solar and Display UV-I data. There is nothing here re "Hidden", that is in the Data Visibility section.

Enjoy,
Paul

[oldeflyer]

Paul,
The General options were the first I looked at. They were already un-checked. I did try to check/uncheck them to see if there was an option missing that would be added if those items were manipulated.

I normally use Firefox for a browser. I have also tried the Chrome browser.
BTW, I am running the latest Pi OS 'Bookworm' with all patches up to date.

Wayne

[mcrossley]

The dashboard display is (generally) fixed, only the web site is dynamic. The only way of changing the dashboard layout is by editing the files - but then you'd have to take great care at every MX release to either re-edit or do careful file contents compares.

There is the Alternative Interface of course.

[oldeflyer]

Thanks Mark,
It is not that important that I would go check files at every update. It just didn't seem that the check boxes were chaging anything.

This is a home use only station so I'm good with what I have.

Wayne

[Ned]

I don't have a website these days so only rely on the dashboard. I miss the lunar image that Cumulus 1 provided, and not having any solar data from my ancient Fine Offset station, the solar block was an irritation.
It was easy to replace the solar block in index.html with one that displays a lunar phase image, albeit one that needs to be frequently manually updated from the 'net. Plus remembering to tweak index.html when updating CMX.
If anyone has an automated method, let's hear it.
cheers!
(attached lunar phase is not current as it's now blank with a new moon)

[mcrossley]

You could use the MX generated Moon image, and set the copy option to the interface/img folder.

[Ned]

I found moon.png in the webfiles folder, but it seems it won't update without running a website?

[PaulMy]

Hi,

I found moon.png in the webfiles folder, but it seems it won't update without running a website?

Have you tried: In Internet Settings > Moon Image > [Tick] Generate Moon image > Copy File - [tick] Copy Moon image file, and fill in Copy destination folder.

Enjoy,
Paul

[Ned]

Great, thanks Paul. I hadn't looked into the Internet settings until now, so was unaware of that facility.
Cheers!