windbird

mattybic

Hi, I've just set up a windbird (1605) which is on openwindmap.org. Will it automatically show up on windy.com or must i register it?Cheers,

SnowSky

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
}