Davis WP2+ with WeatherLink Live to a personal website

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Apologies if this has been asked before - I did search but couldn’t find it

I have just purchased a Davis Weather Pro 2+ with Weatherlink Live.

Very happy with it so far and have resurrected my old WeatherUnderground Account (IAucklan116)

Eventually want to have my own weather page up and running - but cannot see how to do it with WeatherLink Live.

I intend to purchase Weather Display but having just spent a few $$$ on the station, need to watch my spend for a little while.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

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Of course WD is a good choice, “most extensive weather-program on earth”.
It needs a PC-type device to run, nearly any size of device is OK, can be windows or mac , or a raspberry PI, which is really affordable
WD on those devices will run 24/7, get the data from your WLL and gives you a large number of weather-values.
You can use anyone of the weather-templates (s.a. Saratoga / Leuven /Meteo) or build your own website/weather-page.

Another option: Your WLL is already uploading to WL.com
So you can use PWS_Dashboard as your website/weather-page. No PC-type device needed
The scripts on your website/weather-page will read the data back from WL.com and assemble a decent website for you.
A demo version using WLL => Flanders-Belgium Home Weather Station (DWL_v2api version)
Although the WLL is relative new there are already some users of the dashboard which get their data this way.
More information can be found here https://pwsdashboard.com/

If you later switch to using WD you can, to start with, continue to use the same dashboard.
Just one setting and it will gladly accept the data from either clientraw or WD-api.

Wim

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Another option: Your WLL is already uploading to WL.com So you can use PWS_Dashboard as your website/weather-page. No PC-type device needed The scripts on your website/weather-page will read the data back from WL.com and assemble a decent website for you. A demo version using WLL => https://pwsdashboard.com/pwsDWL/ Although the WLL is relative new there are already some users of the dashboard which get their data this way. More information can be found here https://pwsdashboard.com/

Thanks, thats the part I was after. For my old station I had a USB connection from the concole to my PC and could upload by cumulus (was looking at WeatherDisplay but hadn’t purchased). From Cumulus I could upload to where ever I wanted. Just couldn’t see how to do this with Weatherlink Live.

Further to that, Weatherlink Live is running 24/7 direct to the Davis Cloud via the modem, I presume going by what you have said above that the same would apply for the website? I wouldn’t have to have the PC running 24/7?

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Correct, you do not need a device 24/7

When running this template/dashboard, the scripts on the server will fetch your data from the weather-network, in your case WL.com (and WU). There is no need for a local computer-device.

HOW does that work:
A cron-job will be started every 5 minutes and that will check the age of all needed data.
Not only from WL.com but also for METAR, forecasts (WU) a.s.o.
As most weather-nets do not supply high-low values, the cron-job als calculates those high-lows for you.

Wim