@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.

@redbellyacres said in PWS Name versus ID Number:

FW2337

You change the name of a saved favorite to anything you want. You can see in the browser address bar the actual address that you reached. You can also see the station name in the map overlap box the moves as you mouse over the timeline.

"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.

Same advice I just posted here:
https://community.windy.com/topic/10726/quero-por-online-a-minha-estação/4

Your Ambient Weather WS-2902(A) is a Fine Offset clone. You should buy the Ecowitt GW1000 (915 Mhz for Ambient compatibility) to add to your hardware setup and then follow the software choices mentioned in the link above.

From your profile picture it seems like you have a Fine Offset clone type station. For that station you will need one of the following software:

Choose one of these software:

• Meteobridge (60 Euros) - It also requires a TP-Link travel router or other compatible hardware, unless you buy a pre-built one.
• Cumulus MX (donation)
• Weather-Display ($60 USD)
• WeeWx (free open source) - but it will only work with main sensors unless you use SDR methods which requires more hardware and skill.

These are all great software and each has pros and cons and different features. You can actually run them all at the same time.

To connect any of the software I mentioned you need to get an Ecowitt GW1000 or a Froggit DP1500 (they are the same thing). You must make sure that the GW1000 or the DP1500 is of the same frequency as your Fine Offset clone. The GW1000 can be ordered with any frequency; 433, 868, or 915 MHz (you have to choose at time of order one of these). The DP1500 only comes with 868 MHz frequency. Technically speaking it is possible to run WeeWx without the GW1000/DP1500. The GW1000 or DP1500 really make it much easier and it is worth it for the other software choices and cost little money. The nice thing about the Meteobridge is that it doesn't require a computer as it run on the little router device. The other software though can be made to run on a Raspberry Pi which is as effective. The Meteobridge device still needs the GW1000 or DP1500, same as Cumulus MX and Weather-Display.

There is no issue. EW9532 is your CWOP ID and E9532 is your MADIS ID. The same station has different identifiers because of how the different databases are utilized in the various network databases.

As you can see here in the title page both IDs are referenced as they are the same system.
https://weather.gladstonefamily.net/site/E9532

Windy automatically shows CWOP stations via its MADIS ID. If you manually add your station to Windy then you will be shown by Windy that there is a duplicate station. What Windy means is that you manually added yourself to their service but they were already pulling your data from MADIS from your CWOP station. Which is to mean that if you already have your station on CWOP there is little reason to also manually add it to Windy. There are however some reasons to still add your station to Windy even if you have a CWOP station. The biggest reason is because there is a greater delay when Windy pulls data from MADIS, whereas if you upload directly to Windy then your data is more current (up to 5 minutes max delayed). Even if you upload to CWOP every 5 minutes, the fact that the data is pulled from MADIS makes it more like 10 minutes delayed.

There is nothing you need to worry about.

Any update on the situation? I have not been able to upload from my Meteobridge in about 3 days.

With an Acurite station you run Acuparse or WeeWx to capture data on your local network to then send to Windy. You'll need a LInux system to run these. You can use a Raspberry Pi.

With other station brands there are more options. Many that don't require running Linux. But don't be afraid when you hear Linux. A Raspberry Pi is a very simple thing to set up. And there is a lot of support for Acuparse and WeeWx on the web. Not on this forum, but elsewhere, like WeeWe Google Groups forum, wxforum.net and Acuparse's website.

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

1. You can't upload history. Not much point anyway as only past 30 days worth of data are kept.
2. No rainfall data is available. It's ingested but not available. Perhaps it will in the future.
3. Not sure about pressure on mobile. Maybe someone else can answer that.

Weather upload interval will update after 1 week.

@steinham Try using &humidity=value instead of &rh=value.