@leopol2
It is simple and easy as Weather Underground if your weather station software adds the support for this new Windy feature. What weather station do you have? Also mention what weather software (that talks to your station) are you using if any? If you just have an regular Ambient Weather or Acurite Station or Davis (or even something else) without any additional software then you are limited to only uploading to what the hardware manufacture put in ...which is namely to just upload to Weather Underground and maybe that manufacture's own cloud service. Unless the hardware manufacture sends out an update to your hardware to support new features then you'll have to resort to other means to expand the use of your station to upload to other places.....So...if you add hardware and software (like Weather-Display, WeeWx, Meteobridge, Acuparse, Cumulus, WiFiLogger...etc) to your station even if it is an Ambient or Acurite then you can gain extra capabilities to send your data to other places. Not all software choices I listed are compatible with all stations manufactures, but pretty much all have something that is compatible.

Every online service seems to have their own set protocol to upload data with. The hardware/software that you use is what determines where it can upload to. Your station was only seemingly designed to upload to WU and to Ambientweather.net. But there is something you can do.

There is an individual very nice person not affiliated with Ambient that started a free online service. His name is Dan. He runs AmbientCWOP.com and his service can be configured to pick up your station data from Ambientweather.net and send it to your own CWOP station ID. Then you are done and your data will show up on Windy. This is because Windy picks up and shows stations that upload to CWOP. What you need to do is sign up for a CWOP station ID. Then you configure your free AmbientCWOP.com account and configure it to pick up your Ambientweahter.net data and send it to your CWOP ID.

WS-1001-WiFi --> Ambientweather.net --> AmbientCWOP.com ---> CWOP --> MADIS --> Windy

(you don't have to configure the CWOP to MADIS link nor the MADIS to Windy link as these happen automatically).

There is something else you can do if you want to cut all the middle stuff out. After all you'd be relying on all those links and things often go down. Therefore here is another solution how you can upload directly to Windy.com...You buy an Ecowitt GW1000 gateway device. This is compatible with your outdoor weather sensor array from Ambient. Then you can interface the GW1000 with any of the following software and any of these software are capable of uploading directly to Windy.com. These are; Cumulus MX, Meteobridge, Weather-Display, and WeeWX. The Meteobridge is its own little devide that you can buy from Ambient. The other software you can download and run on any spare computer or even a Raspberry Pi. Remember any of these 4 software require the Ecowitt GW1000 that you must get from Amazon US or directly from Ecowitt and specify 915 MHz. If you buy the Ecowitt GW1000 from Amazon US then you don't need to specify the 915 MHz version because that is the only one that is sold for the US. You'll be able to send your data to many more places than just Windy if you invest in these expansion to your weather station. This investment in will likely work for a new weather station if you decided to replace it with a newer Ambient station or with a complete new Ecowitt station. The Meteobridge and software will also work with many other brands if you decided to change to a Davis station. I'm mentioning this because it is a worthy investment.

You want affordable and the best? Doesn't exist.

Pick two of these:

• Price
• Quality
• Service / features.

Price & Quality = Acurite Atlas **
Price & Service / features = Ambient or Ecowitt or other FO clone
Quality & Service / features = Davis VP2

** EDIT: March 2021..sorry I no longer recommend Acurite

For anyone with the following weather software follow these links for instructions on how to upload to Windy. Weather-Display requires installing latest update. For WeeWx it is like a plug-in extension. For Meteobridge and Cumulus these are custom http methods to upload to Windy. Meaning a simpler solution will most likely come out soon when these software packages get their next update. But if you want to do this now follow these guides.

Meteobridge
https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=36656.msg376837#msg376837

Cumulus MX
https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=17381

Weather-Display (download latest .zip update)
https://www.weather-watch.com/smf/index.php/topic,67611.0.html

WeeWx
https://github.com/matthewwall/weewx-windy

"Customized" server upload on your console is not compatible with Windy protocol.

If you don't want to have your computer running 24/7 to upload to Windy, then I recommend either investing in a Raspberry Pi which is very small (run headless), almost no power use, economical, quiet if you get the Flirc case, and very reliable. It can run Cumulus MX.

If that doesn't suit you then you could also get a Meteobridge as that too is small, is quiet, reliable but it is a bit more costly, although it is very powerful.

Can you provide a way to list all the Open data policy stations? Also it would be nice to have a filter on the map to only see Windy stations (taking out airports and CWOP ..etc).

1. What type of weather station you have
   Ambient Weather WS-2000 with ObserverIP and Meteobridge software device

2. Do you report your data to some other Internet website?
   WU, CWOP, PWSweather, AWEKAS, WeatherCloud, AmbientWeather.net, MetOffice WOW, Windguru

3. How technically do you send your reports to this other website. Which software or protocol do you use.
   Meteobridge easily provides and supports all required API protocols for all weather websites with no expertise required for me the user. Just contact Boris at Smartbedded info@smartbedded maker of the Meteobridge and I'm sure after you have a working API that the Meteobridge will be updated to support your website.

4. Do you have any tips and ideas, how should our reporting API look like?
   You should support JSON API. Make sure to look at other weather online sites to determine all the metrics that need reporting...be sure to support solar and UV and things like rain and rain rate...etc. Besides the data sent to you please also calculate other things like feels like and dew point.

5. Would you be willing to offer your station data to anyone else (not only windy.com) as open data?
   Yes, but realize that you will only attract people to send you the data if you build good reporting tools and graphs and such so that the raw data can be easily consumed and analysed and compared.

Hello,
Can you explain what happens if I'm already sending data to CWOP which you already ingest via MADIS and display on your site? Meaning what happens if I also send you data directly? Is there a benefit then to still sending you data? Will you provide data contributors with any station data analysis or tools?

@omicron You can run one of the following WeatherFlow compatible solutions. Basically they are weather software.

• Meteobridge (needs host device to install to)

• WeeWx + WeatherFlow UDP driver

• Weather-Display software

@omicron said in Report you Weather Station Data to Windy:

@galfert said in Report you Weather Station Data to Windy:

@omicron You can run one of the following WeatherFlow compatible solutions. Basically they are weather software.

• Meteobridge (needs host device to install to)

• WeeWx + WeatherFlow UDP driver

• Weather-Display software

Sorry, but still pay for other software, hardware or a lot of work just because I have to send my data to someone? Why does Windy not make her data model upside down and retrieve data from my API?

Your API? You mean the UDP broadcast protocol with your weather data that your station sends onto your local network only? How is Windy supposed to hook into that? You want them to write a program just for their service to run on your computer? That isn't the norm. Imagine if every domain you wanted to send an email to required that you install a separate email program to to send email there. No you use one email program that can send emails everywhere. Likewise people use various weather software (their choice depending on features and hardware compatibility )to send their weather data everywhere. You just have a basic station with some limited capabilities. Your manufacture made a weather station hardware and software solution to publish directly to some limited online weather services. If you want to do more with your station then you need to invest in the added hardware/software to take advantage of the capabilities that the manufacture designed into your station. Otherwise then your complaint shouldn't be with Windy...for it is not possible to do what you requested from the Internet with your local only API. Rather your concern should be with the manufacture of your station and you should ask them why they don't update the software/firmware of your device to support more services than when you purchased it. My analogy with email isn't exactly apples to apples but that is only because email has a published standard. With weather data we don't have that...yet. Every online service does things differently because they have different purposes and focus. Perhaps we are in the early days of email when it come to weather data, because before when if you wanted to send email to a Prodigy user then you had to be on Prodigy and if you wanted to send an email to Compuserv user then you needed to be on Compuserv...back then there was no integration of email.

@filippoastro
I've noticed that a lot of people are using the wrong API key. They are incorrectly using the following API key which is for forecasts and webcams and not for weather station data uploads:
https://api.windy.com/

^^ That is not the correct API key to use for weather station data upload.

The correct API key to use for your weather station is this one:
https://stations.windy.com/stations

TO WINDY ADMINS: I would recommend that you add a clear note in the api.windy.com page to clarify this point and refer users to the stations.windy.com/station that are looking for the data upload API. Or better yet....combine both API keys into the same page where on that one page you can list all the different API keys for the signed in user.

@yves70 How is that anemometer on that Helix Pro? How often does the wind speed and gusts update?

@ejencalada I'm sorry...I posted that over a year and half ago. I no longer recommend nor do I care to discus the Acurite Atlas. The company in my view has failed to deliver what I feel is a competitive solution. And no, I will not elaborate why I changed my mind as you can find evidence in other weather forums. It is my opinion, and that is that. I'm sure you can get other opinions. Send it back and get something else...or keep it and good luck.

@graeme2812
Your best bet is to run WeeWX with the Interceptor driver to get data from your station. Then you'll need to install the Windy extension for WeeWX. I recommend reading the WeeWX wiki and github websites and also read and ask questions in the WeeWX Google user group. If you are not familiar with Linux then you'll have even more to learn. It isn't difficult if you put your mind to it. There is lots of help over in the WeeWX Google user group. I recommend running WeeWX on a Raspberry Pi.

@mark014
Even if the Windy API key were smaller you still would not be able to upload to Windy with your Ecowitt console using the "Customized" server upload feature because it uploads using a different protocol than what Windy uses.

My suggestion for you is to use the Ecowitt GW1000 or Froggit DP1500 in conjunction with your station if you don't currently have one of these. It will be compatible with your current station as long as you get it with the same frequency as your current station (433, 868, or 915 MHz).

Then you can run one of the follow software applications that are capable of getting data from the GW1000 / DP1500 and uploading it to Windy. These compatible applications are: Cumulus MX, Meteobridge, Weather-Display, and WeeWX. A good solution to run these is a Raspberry Pi. If you need more guidance you should head over the wxforum.net and read up on these solutions or ask for help there.

@maxi2019 You need to purchase additional hardware and then run additional software that will support uploading to Windy.

The first thing you need is an Ecowitt GW1000. This is compatible with your station and it will pick up your sensors.

Then you can run one of several software. Cumulus MX, Meteobridge, Weather-Display, or WeeWX. All of these software support uploading to Windy.

@stef942 CWOP location errors come are usually one of two possible issues.

1 - Your registration is wrong. To fix this you send and email to cwopp-support at noa.gov.

2 - You have entered in the wrong latitude / longitude into your weather software that uploads to CWOP. This is the most common error and it usually has to do with people not understanding how to properly enter in latitude and longitude in the correct format for their software. Every software can potentially ask for this information in different formats. There is Degree Minutes format, then there Degrees Minutes and Seconds format, and there this Degree Minutes and decimal minutes format. You should use an online converter calculator to convert between the different formats to get your location dialed in correctly. Here is a good website to convert between the different formats:
https://www.directionsmag.com/site/latlong-converter/

@tomszechy Most weather stations have the same design. They use a solar panel to run during the day and it also charges a battery or a capacitor (its like a battery). Then at night the capacitor runs the station when there is no solar energy. But there are times when there is not enough solar energy during the day to run the capacitor for the next night (rainy days...extreme cloudiness...extreme locations at the poles where there is minimal daylight...etc). Therefore for these reasons a good station besides the solar panel and capacitor will also have batteries to us in case of those extreme cases.

Typically the station will only deplete those batteries about every 2 to 3 years depending on how much those batteries need to be used as it will be different for every location. Certainly it should last a year. Even if using rechargable batteries they have a limit of charge cycles and just about any battery after 2 to 3 years starts to show signs of needing replacement.

But you should not think of a weather station that you can mount and forget. Because you should be servicing the station for other reasons. Sure if you only mount an anemometer on the roof you can get by with minimal maintenance, but if you also mount a rain gauge and temperature/humidity sensor you should be cleaning it out of debris, spider webs, and insects. Therefore a maintenance of at least every 6 months to at most a year is recommended.

The bottom line is that you can't mount a weather station and forget it. So battery depletion is the least of your worries.

Every online service seems to have their own set protocol to upload data with. The hardware/software that you use is what determines where it can upload to. Your station was only seemingly designed to upload to WU and to Ambientweather.net. But there is something you can do.

There is an individual very nice person not affiliated with Ambient that started a free online service. His name is Dan. He runs AmbientCWOP.com and his service can be configured to pick up your station data from Ambientweather.net and send it to your own CWOP station ID. Then you are done and your data will show up on Windy. This is because Windy picks up and shows stations that upload to CWOP. What you need to do is sign up for a CWOP station ID. Then you configure your free AmbientCWOP.com account and configure it to pick up your Ambientweahter.net data and send it to your CWOP ID.

WS-1001-WiFi --> Ambientweather.net --> AmbientCWOP.com ---> CWOP --> MADIS --> Windy

(you don't have to configure the CWOP to MADIS link nor the MADIS to Windy link as these happen automatically).

There is something else you can do if you want to cut all the middle stuff out. After all you'd be relying on all those links and things often go down. Therefore here is another solution how you can upload directly to Windy.com...You buy an Ecowitt GW1000 gateway device. This is compatible with your outdoor weather sensor array from Ambient. Then you can interface the GW1000 with any of the following software and any of these software are capable of uploading directly to Windy.com. These are; Cumulus MX, Meteobridge, Weather-Display, and WeeWX. The Meteobridge is its own little devide that you can buy from Ambient. The other software you can download and run on any spare computer or even a Raspberry Pi. Remember any of these 4 software require the Ecowitt GW1000 that you must get from Amazon US or directly from Ecowitt and specify 915 MHz. If you buy the Ecowitt GW1000 from Amazon US then you don't need to specify the 915 MHz version because that is the only one that is sold for the US. You'll be able to send your data to many more places than just Windy if you invest in these expansion to your weather station. This investment in will likely work for a new weather station if you decided to replace it with a newer Ambient station or with a complete new Ecowitt station. The Meteobridge and software will also work with many other brands if you decided to change to a Davis station. I'm mentioning this because it is a worthy investment.

As long as you keep using WeatherCat then the answer is no, you can't upload directly to Windy.com because the Windy.com upload protocol is different than WU. But all is not lost. You can upload to CWOP with WeatherCat and the good news is that Windy pulls in stations that upload to CWOP.

There is of course another way without giving up on WeatherCat. The Davis logger that you are using (your connection from the station to WeatherCat system) is tied up. But you could always get a second logger and you can get a logger without a display console that works by itself. If you added the Davis WeatherLink Live device then some other software can see the data from your Davis station. The Davis WeatherLink Live device picks up your sensors directly just as you current display console does. Then the Davis WeatherLink Live device can make the live data that it gets available to some other weather program that supports direct Windy uploads. Such software that can connect with the Davis WeatherLink Live device are; Cumulus MX, Meteobridge, and Weather-Display. Granted those don't all run on Mac. But making sense of these additional choices you could run Cumulus MX or Weather-Display on a Raspberry Pi, cheap, small, no noise if using a Flirc case, and reliable. You could also get a Meteobridge device that is equally capable. The Meteobridge (standard version) will require the WeatherLink device to get data as will whatever system you set up to run Cumulus MX or Weather-Display. As you can see there are many options to go by to expand with. Sure any one of these options may be a bit much just to upload to Windy.com. But having these software will allow you to upload a many other places that WeatherCat currently doesn't upload to. I encourage you to consider running some of these other options and their benefits.