Hi, This is a bit late - but probably not too late.
Years ago if i remember correct, it wasn't this hard.
It was possible to setup the windbird pioupiou to send the data automatically to windy; or to setup windy to collect the data from openwindmap. Exchanging stationID was almost the only necessary thing.
I do not remember at when the functionality got lost - I would guesstimate about a year not seeing my windbird on Windy.
Today I investigated (That's also the reason why I'm replying today); and it seems that both services, OpenWindMap/pioupiou and Windy do only serve APIs to collect data - but there is no initiator anymore, this means - you have to create some kind of automatism on your own.
In my point of view this has become far too technical for the general audience.
Prerequisite:
Your dataretrieval URL will be: https://api.pioupiou.fr/v1/live/1605
You have to create a station on windy ( https://stations.windy.com/ )
This will give you a station ID (8 characters) and a password (approx 40-60 characters) for the station.
Now the technical part, and this can be done in may ways. Every way I know requires you to have a device or computer running non-stop 24/7.
In my case I am using node-red on a raspberry pi to call every 5 minutes https://api.pioupiou.fr/v1/live/{myWindbirdNumber}
convert the payload from JSON to javascript object
move the msg.payload to msg.windbird
set {windy station id} to msg.payload.id
set {windy station password} to msg.payload.PASSWORD
copy msg.windbird.data.measurements.date to msg.payload.time
copy msg.windbird.data.measurements.wind_heading to msg.payload.winddir as integer
copy msg.windbird.data.measurements.wind_speed_avg to msg.payload.wind divided by 3.6
copy msg.windbird.data.measurements.wind_speed_max to msg.payload.gust divided by 3.6
pass all this to a http request linked to https://stations.windy.com/api/v2/observation/update with the option to attach payload to query.
If you have a Windows computer, you can take and adapt the following powershell code, and call it every 5 or 10 minutes with the task-scheduler:
# Pioupiou / Windbird Station ID
$windbirdStationId = 1605
# Windy StationId + Password
$windyStationId = "abcdefgh"
$windyPassword = "approx 40-60 symbols password"
# Nothing to adapt below this line
# URLs
$srcUrl = "http://api.pioupiou.fr/v1/live/$windbirdStationId"
$windyUrl = "https://stations.windy.com/api/v2/observation/update"
# Retrieve data
try {
$data = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $srcUrl -Method GET -ErrorAction Stop
} catch {
Write-Host "Error retrieving data: $_"
exit 1
}
# Extract data
$winddir = [int]$data.data.measurements.wind_heading
$wind = [string]::Format([System.Globalization.CultureInfo]::InvariantCulture, "{0}", $data.data.measurements.wind_speed_avg)
$gust = [string]::Format([System.Globalization.CultureInfo]::InvariantCulture, "{0}", $data.data.measurements.wind_speed_max)
$ts = $data.data.measurements.date
# Form new Query-Parameters
$params = @{
id = $windyStationId
time = $ts
winddir = $winddir
wind = $wind / 3.6
gust = $gust / 3.6
PASSWORD= $windyPassword
}
# GET-Request to Windy
try {
$upload_result = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $windyUrl -Method GET -Body $params -ErrorAction Stop
Write-Host "Data succesfully sent to Windy."
} catch {
Write-Host "Error sending to Windy: $_"
$params.GetEnumerator() | Format-Table -AutoSize
}
