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I’m a total newbie here. Am I doing the post right at this place? I see Topic … #-o
I have a Davis Vantage PRO2 plus, a Meteobridge NANO and a WeatherLink Live.
I did get my site working. But I am not satisfied. High and low temperatures in a day are always the same. According to probability theory, that is completely impossible. I now receive my data from WU. Who apparently does not pass this on.

The Meteobridge does all kinds of things but does nothing to my site if I don’t tell it to do so. How do I do that?
I can set the WeatherLink Live, under uploads, it now delivers to CWOP. How can I set it to deliver to the site?

Can someone help me get the Meteobridge and / or the WeatherLink Live set up?

Thanks

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What is the URL of your site?

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that is http://www.bdepoel.nl/pwsWD09/index.php

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As WU does not deliver high-low data, you need to run the station-cron every 5 minutes.
That script will take care of high-lows, preloading often used data and other “smart” things.
Readme https://pwsdashboard.com/ => Documentation => Cron-jobs
https://pwsdashboard.com/documentation2009/cron.pdf

=== WLL
You can use the data from the wll as uploaded to weatherlink.com
You need the correct keys as available from your weatherlink.com account page.
To find the correct station-identifier => Find your weathercloud station
You enter those three keys in easyweathersetup, choose wl.comv2API, and your pwsdashboard will load the data from weatherlink.com. Sadly no high-lows either => you need to use the cron also.
But the cron does a lot of other goodies. You always want to use it either way.

=== Meteobridge
If you want to use Meteobridge as your main data-provider there are two different dashboards to choose from

[ol]
[li]weatherlink34 strictly Meteobridge + Davis + English language, so you can certainly use that one but everything is in English language only.[/li]
[li]previous weather34/ versions, which are still maintained, they have multi-language support
[/li][li]the pwsdashboard which supports Meteobridges with a realtime.txt as used by multiple weather-programs[/li][/ol]

The Meteobridge has one very nice feature which can be helpful: remote support.
So template authors can help you with the setup if needed.

=== More info needed:
But better first: Please explain more in detail what you want to accomplish.

If WU is OK, only the high-lows are needed => use a cron job
If you need extra sensors from Davis => use weatherlink.com + wll
If you need “inside temp/hum” you can not use WU either use weatherlink.com or Meteobridge

Wim

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Thanks Wim,

I entered the keys of the WLL in the Easyweather setup screen. Both the V2 key and the secret key. After saving the settings I do not receive any data on my site. The same goes for the NANO, if I choose that setting then nothing happens either.

What I would like is that the information that the Davis weather station has gathered throughout the day and that the Meteobridge NANO transmits to various sites also becomes visible on my site. The situation now is that NANO passes the information on to WU and that WU returns it to my (EasyWeather) site. And there is no high-low information in it. I think the WLL should have that… at least weatherlink.com does…
But I was not impressed by that WLL anyway because it now sends data to CWOP, but for other sites I still need that NANO … apparently. But maybe also misunderstood by me … and is that machine capable of doing much more. :oops:

But it may be that as a newbie I misunderstand. I don’t know the data stream. This also applies to the reatime.txt or realtimeMB.txt or realtime.htx files. Do they come from or do they go to the various (NANO or WLL) instruments?

(By the way I can’t open the site you mentioned Weatherlink34. (Forbidden))

Bart

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You need two keys and the station-id as described Find your weathercloud station
You enter the two keys there => click on “Go to find my station number”
Then you enter the two keys plus the station number in easyweather and select “API - Weatherlink Cloud v2”
See attached screenshots

What I would like is that the information that the Davis weather station has gathered throughout the day and that the Meteobridge NANO transmits to various sites also becomes visible on my site. The situation now is that NANO passes the information on to WU and that WU returns it to my (EasyWeather) site. And there is no high-low information in it. I think the WLL should have that… at least weatherlink.com does…
No, weatherlink.com v2API => your WLL-device does not have high-lows The weatherlink.com v1API, as used by ip-loggers , wifilogger a.o. still has high-lows
But I was not impressed by that WLL anyway because it now sends data to CWOP, but for other sites I still need that NANO ... apparently.
weatherlink.com website does the uploading to CWOP, GLOBE and WeatherUnderground, if you instruct that on the wl.com website. The WLL device only uploads to weatherlink.com. And answers local request from meteobridge,weatherdisplay, cumulusmx your browser
But maybe also misunderstood by me ... and is that machine capable of doing much more. :oops: But it may be that as a newbie I misunderstand. I don't know the data stream. This also applies to the reatime.txt or realtimeMB.txt or realtime.htx files. Do they come from or do they go to the various (NANO or WLL) instruments?
The meteobridge-nano is a device which listens to your (mulriple) weatherstation(s) and weather-related devices (AQ-sensors) Same as most modern weather-programs do. They all store that data, compute high-lows . Most weather-programs, also the nano, are able to upload to multiple weather-networks, such as WeatherUnderground a.s.o. They only need the keys/ID's etc. to upload as they [b]know[/b] what data and what format is needed by all (20+) networks one can upload to. You are also uploading to pwsweather, so it should already be clear how to do that.

All weather-programs, including the nano, can upload to one or more private station websites. Like http://www.bdepoel.nl/
On that website you can install 1 or more weather-websites. Build your own or use a template such as PWS_Dashboard.

Those templates and the weather-program need to instruct each other which weather-items and in which sequence, format a.s.o. the data need to be uploaded. Therefor you have to tell Meteobridge-Nano

[ol]
[li]which template file it has to read every x minutes[/b][/li]
[li]to process that file [b] which means translating weather-keys like “%current-temperature%” to the real value[/li]
[li]what upload protocol it has to use (FTP, SFTP, HTTP)[/li]
[li]to what website and in what folder it has to store that information[/li][/ol]

But as my native language is Dutch, such as yours, I need to use Google and all this cost considerabel extra time.
There is a large Meteobridge website explaining all this more in detail Home - meteobridge

(By the way I can't open the site you mentioned Weatherlink34. (Forbidden))
Did you try your phone with 4G, or another computer or even another browser? That is a normal website, reachable by all https://weather34.com/homeweatherstation/
Bart

Succes,
Wim

P.S. The Dutch “hetweeractueel” website has all kind of Meteobridge discussions. Please join Forumoverzicht - Het weer, actueel weer van alle weerstations

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Thank you very much, Wim. Not only is your answer comprehensive, but I am also impressed by the attention you pay to a nitwit in this area, like me. I worked for a large company in NL for many years and I believe the largest (at the time) in BE. I was in Brussels regularly 2-3 days a week. My colleagues were usually the way you are now, friendly and cooperative colleagues who knew well and what they were talking about. Thanks. I’m going to study your answers in detail.
I already have:
Set the settings to WLL as described. But I am not receiving any information yet.
I have registered with “HetweerActueel”
I don’t understand what’s going on with Weather34. I have tried on different browsers but cannot load that site. It works via 4G. Why that happens … another mystery.

Thanks again Wim,

Greeting,

Bart

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Probably you forgot to enter the station ID.

It is a step by step guide, you end with three values.

If you enter them as described in the settings, it works. Has worked dozens of times

Your 1 "API Key v2" and your 2 " API Secret" to the settings nearly at the bottom as in the picture above

For your 3 “station_id” you have to decide between
the setting below your “API Key v2” and “API Secret”
if you use the v2API for your station and extra sensors.

That station-identifier has 4 or 5 digits. It is never shorter!
The first station (first array element) => station-ID is the field labeled [station_id]
In the example below 88767

Returncode =200
Array(
    [stations] => Array  (  [0] => Array  (
                    [station_id] => 88767
                    [station_name] => Weather

At the third page of Find your weathercloud station you can inspect the data returned for your WLL and check if you inserted the station-number.

If you do not fill in all three values in easyweather there can no data be loaded from weatherlink .com.
Wim

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Great it works. strangely enough I found a WLL device ID in the software. That was a 12 digit (numbers and letters) ID … But it looks like it works fine with your info.
I have to save that trick somewhere for later or other uses.

And as for Werather34. I changed my IP address and then I got access. I am trying to download it now. I have to get the code to do that by email. Nothing is happening yet. Too bad because I like that layout.

Bart

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Author lives in Turkey :slight_smile:

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It took me more than a month… you are right. He really lives in Turkey, as I now understand. #-o

Btw how (in with file) did you changed the colors of letters and numbers in your Wind/Gust dial?
thanks in advance,
Bart

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Yes, I’ve seen your Aurora-master page 8)

Btw how (in which file) did you change the colors of letters and numbers in your Wind/Gust dial?

In wind_c_block.php. BUT if you do alter scripts like this they might be overwritten by updates in the future. . .

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Ok thanks, I’m going to try. But I just saw somewhere that (background only?) Colors change with rising or decreasing wind. Is that right. I did not know that nor at what speed if it is correct.

And I’m looking for how you should get WU history working from scratch. In frames.php I turned on “History at WU and Reports at WU in my menu but now I get the message” The requested URL was not found on this server. "I read something about Cron jobs and stuff but I don’t know where to By the way, I have indicated in the setup menu that I want to use WU histroy and I also get graphs of it in pop-ups. What more is possible with a cron

And as for

I plan to keep a file for what I have changed where and why

Best regards,

Bart

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I don’t think the wind block changes colour, but I am no expert with the latest versions: my page is from July last year (2019) :slight_smile:

And I'm looking for how you should get WU history working from scratch. In frames.php I turned on "History at WU and Reports at WU in my menu but now I get the message" The requested URL was not found on this server. "I read something about Cron jobs and stuff but I don't know where to By the way, I have indicated in the setup menu that I want to use WU histroy and I also get graphs of it in pop-ups. What more is possible with a cron

Again I am no expert, but I think you are confusing 3 different things.

  1. History at WU and Reports at WU use the stand-alone scripts in separate directories, pws/wuhistory and pws/wureports

  2. WU graph pop-ups use PWS_DailyHistory.php and PWS_graph_xx.php to read and display data from WU

  3. History (the pop-up in Current Sky block) is driven by PWS_cron_stationcron.php, which runs every 5 minutes and makes sure you get daily max/min readings, for example, and also does a lot of housekeeping.

But you should search for these topics in the Forum, and check the documentation at https://pwsdashboard.com, because I’m sure Wim has explained all these things better than me.