Hi. I’m looking at options for embedding real-time weather data onto our website, in particular, i want to show rain data by day/week/month. I already have a weather station which uploads to Fresh WDL from a PC running all the time with weather display software. However, i would like to install another weather station at a friends house, who has wifi, but doesnt have a PC running all the time.
Does anyone know of options, before i resort to considering buying another Davis VUE with weatherlink live, and then manually create a graph on the website and enter rain data every day…the weatherlink software has a nice widget you can embed on a website showing current weather, but i want to be able to see a graph of rain info too…
Thank you very much both…this does look interesting
I’m just researching it now and i can see that the data can be displayed on the ecowitt server, as well as weather underground/weathercloud etc. I’m struggling to find out if the data file itself can be captured by my own webpage and graphed (assuming i can find someone who could generate the code to do this…)
Not sure I understand you correctly, but the PWS Dashboard can display data from an Ecowitt station and graph data from, e.g., Weather Underground records. I think you can use local database files instead. On the demos, click on the links to “Graphs” under various blocks.
The PWS dashboard does look like what im looking for. Sorry if my initial msg didnt make sense…in short, i’m basically looking for embedded weather data (including rainfall graphs) on my website, but without the need for a PC running all the time. I currently have a Davis VUE linked to a PC running weather display 24/7, and this is uploaded to Fresh WDL (you can take a look below). However, when i install a new weather station at my friends, they wont have a PC running all the time, so just trying to find the best way of getting the real-time weather data to my website (not elsewhere) with just a wifi connection. The Ecowitt looks perfect tbh, and PWS dashboard looks like it does what i want.
I’ve bought a Wittboy to do something similar. I’m waiting for it to be mounted on the roof of one of my brother’s holiday lets high in the Peak District. I don’t want to give him the expense of running a PC up there 24*7 so I’ll either let it upload data to the Ecowitt site and then download it, or more likely stick a Raspberry Pi and UPS up there to grab data for uploading.
The location is pretty remote so loss of power is relatively common in winter storms which is why I think a Pi would be better to grab the ‘exciting’ data during the storm rather than losing it due to a power outage!
Now I just need to wait for Raspberry Pi stocks to return to normal so that I can buy one at a reasonable price.
