Hi,
I recently purchased an Ecowitt WittBoy and I like to add this to WeatherDisplay.
I have 2 instances of WD at the moment.
Primary for VantageVue
Second for WeatherFlow Sky/Air
Third WittBoy
In the folder for my WeatherFlow (wdisplaywf) the file 2wd.txt has been added.
In my WittBoy folder wdisplaywb I will be adding the file 3wd.txt.
This should work, I presume.
My question is this.
I haven’t running the second instance at the moment because WeatherFlow is not working ok with WD.
But I don’t want to delete that folder and it’s files.
So my primary instance will be running and the (third) WD instance for the WittBoy.
Will this be giving a problem.
What do the files wd2.txt and wd3.txt tell WeatherDisplay?
Ooohhhh, I always forget.
What is the order of starting and closing these instances?
On my desktop I run client WD with clientraw data from the weather computer, but I also have a second full instance of WD that used to work fine (with Netatmo). Now I have changed it to experiment with Ecowitt it doesn’t seem to work any more
It’s not a priority for me, yet, but I will be interested to see any replies.
I don’t think there is any particular order, but there is a setting in Setup > Advanced/Misc Settings > Program: “Do not shut down other running instances when exiting”.
I now have a second instance of WD running with a GW1102 station, not a Wittboy, but I am using a GW2000 gateway because the GW1100 was useless. So I don’t think you should have a problem.
(I had to ask Brian why my 2WD wasn’t working, and the answer was because I had not set up the anemometer. . . who knew that would affect it?)
Great!
I had read that in the other thread.
Mine is running ok since April 1st.
Except that WD uses my WH40 rainsensor instead of the WittBoy rainsensor.
In the Ecowitt app I have selected the Wittboy (Piezoelectric rain gauge) as Rainfall data priority.
I am using API Key and Application Key and MAC adress in WD.
I created the Keys again in case I maybe would have created them when set to WH40.If that matters.
I also find that my wind gauges in WD do not update frequently, I have read that the Wittboy uploads every 8.5 seconds.
It certainly takes longer for them to update.
Is it better to use the IP-number in WD settings or the APi’s?
I think it is best to use the IP in WD for getting data. I selected “Wittboy/GW2000 in use (uses HTTP)” in crongw1000, but you don’t have to: I think WD uses the internal API in the gateway if you don’t.
You can use the Ecowitt API for History data recovery only:
