Report your Weather Station Data to Windy

Korina

@raptordesigns Hello, you should include the station ID in the api key. If you only have one station, then the ID is 0.

mtkrastev

I have many weather stations (a hobby manufacturer), and I am trying to have them send weather reports to Windy.

These devices are pretty advanced and they collect many different measurements along with camera images. Here are 3 questions:

I picked up one of my test weather stations and registered it following the instructions above. I use option 2, i.e. post JSON data using Spring RestTemplate to Windy. The post is successful, and I get SUCCESS. However, when I try to view the reports I send, I get "Error loading or rendering station data".

https://www.windy.com/station/pws-f05140f8?43.425,23.304,8

At the same time, I can see those reports are getting published to Windy when I check

https://stations.windy.com/pws/station/open/API_KEY/f05140f8

Do I simply need to wait more (it's been 6 hours since I sent the first reports)? Or there is some problem in the data I am pushing or its formatting? Or a bug on Windy's side :) ?

My weather stations have sleep mode whereby they act as a data logger, collect weather reports, store them on their flash card and batch them in the morning. Will Windy accept those reports in batches when each report's timestamp is 10 minutes apart? Is there any throttling which would drop reports above some pre-defined rate?
I can see there are JSON fields for UV and precipitation, but I cannot see those shown on Windy. Are those fields really processed and persisted, or they are currently not supported by Windy?

Thanks a lot for your answers!

Korina

@mtkrastev Hello, what type of station are you please using? You will likely need an additional software to send us data.

Softwares to consider:
Cumulus MX
Meteobridge
Weather-Display
WeeWx

mtkrastev

@korina I am building my own weather stations and back end. As I wrote earlier, I am using a Java / Spring based back end to send data to Windy using option 2 in the instructions, i.e. HTTP post JSON.

Here is a link to one of the stations:

https://www.meteobrite.com/report?stationId=2

I don't want to use any 3rd party solutions to post data, I want to integrate my own already existing back end solution with Windy. And I can see Windy gets the reported data and reports SUCCESS, it is just the data is not displayed.

I can see many users have had similar problems in the past, and they started to see their data after some time.

So, I am wondering whether I should simply wait more or there is some problem with the data I am sending. If it is the latter, how can I figure out what the problem is? Windy replies with SUCCESS, doesn't report any issues, and I can see the data is actually persisted on your back end site using the second link from my previous post.

Thanks

mtkrastev

Update: The first weather station showed up on Windy ~ 24 h after the first reports were published. It seems the delay is not 30 minutes, but one day at least. Hopefully, the other weather stations will appear soon.

Korina

@mtkrastev Glad to hear that, the second one should display as well then.

mtkrastev

@korina The stations are now visible and reporting as expected.

However, I created two requests to add the webcams from these stations 2 days ago.

What is the average time for webcams to be added once a request has been submitted?
Is there a separate thread in the forum to discuss webcams and how they are added to Windy?

Thanks

mtkrastev

Update: The webcams showed up automatically after 2-3 days. So, it seems one has to be patient and wait. Things work out in the end :)

Korina

@mtkrastev Hello, yes, webcams are approved manually, so it take a couple of days till they show up.

aidworker

Hello,
is there any way to upload data from my Froggit WH3000SE PRO (via ecowitt/EasyWeatherV1.5.9)?
Many thanks

Korina

@aidworker Hello, please have a look at this category.

pkaras

Hi - reconnecting my weather station to windy via weewx on a pi after moving house and I get this error in the weewx status report -

"weewx[1984] ERROR weewx.restx: Windy: Failed to publish record 2022-01-18 11:30:00 GMT (1642505400): ...r 3 tries"

I've reinstalled the weewx/windy extension and updated the API key - is there anything else I should do? All help welcome!

Korina

@pkaras What is your station ID?

pkaras

@korina - it's f076f436, thanks

pkaras

@korina - I've got a more detailed error -

DEBUG weewx.restx: Windy: Failed upload attempt 1:

Not sure what this means! it's from a raspberry pi, via fritz router...

Korina

@pkaras Hello, did you set the upload intervals to 5 minutes and your station ID to 0?
I would recommend to contact WeeWX directly.

pkaras

@korina Thanks korina - It appears to be a security problem - not sure which end the problem is with as a wget command has the same issue so it may not be weewx

Lukas1997.

Hello,

Can the weather data also be uploaded via the ws view app?

Korina

@lukas1997 Hello, sharing is only available via API.

oldrichsveda

Hi, I have a brand new Davis Vantage Pro 2 with UV and Solar radiation sensors and Davis AirLink Air quality monitor, so I can upload solar, PM1, PM2.5, and PM10 measurements. Also, I have AS3935 powered lightning detector. Your API is not ready for this data?