Hi,
I’m trying to use the extra sensors in pwsWD. I can get the basic set but I’m not pointing my ecowitt to it - I’m using cumulusmx with cumulusutils - maybe I’m missing something but has anyone done this and had PWS fully working? I know the webcam is not working - cutils uses the api and shows the image but the next image has a different name so when that changes the pwswd image becomes invalid.
Hi Nossie,
First, welcome to the forum.
When you posted I was on vacation with a smart-phone as the only device.
Sorry for the delay in answering.
Use extra Cumulus sensors in pwsWD
The PWS_Dashboard startpage has links to the file to use and to a short description
Description: https://pwsdashboard.com/documentation2012/36_extra_sensors.pdf
You can download the file for cumulus to use from https://pwsdashboard.com/extra_sensors-20201221.zip
Use extra Ecowitt sensors in pwsWD
I assume your Cumulus program is accessing the ecowitt directly via that LAN.
You can instruct your ecowitt device to do a custom upload directly to your website.
https://pwsdashboard.com/documentation2012/42_ecowitt.pdf
That way you can use a far larger set of sensors as with the “old” cumulus realtime.txt
How to set the link to the camera image.
I checked your website and it seems the file https://stewartonweather.com/meteocamrealtime.txt
contains the most recent link to your webcam image.
If that assumption is correct I have to adept the scripts to use that “hidden” link.
Will take some testing but AFAICS it can be done.
Succes,
Wim
Also you are using OpenWeatherMap as a “DarkSky”-replacement.
Last weeks the All-inOne 2.5 version was replaced with the 3.0 version
You should have gotten an email for that from OW.
Now adept line 38 of the script PWS_Dark_Openweather.php from
$owm_version = '2.5';
to
$owm_version = '3.0';
Today I put an updated version of the script on-line at https://pwsdashboard.com/upd.php
Better use that version.
Also make sure that you have a “paid for” API key for the All-in-One version.
If you only use the API-key for the forecast, the monthly invoice-amount is 0.
Regards,
Wim
Hi Wim, thank you for the response - don’t worry about the delay I’m just grateful you did.
I misunderstood the difference between using Ecowitt directly, cumulusmx and cumulus utils.
That way you can use a far larger set of sensors as with the “old” cumulus realtime.txt
I’m not sure how up to date you are with CMX but I believe most of those readings are now being processed internally now - using Utils it muddys things but there has been a huge amount of changes in the last 6 months or so.
I have multiple spouts for home assistant, influxdb and all sorts storing data - so pointing it directly at the remote web server is not in my interests and for most other things there is the ecowitt api or MQTT.
I have however got extra_cu.txt working, now I think a few of the tags have changed over the years and I still need to change the labels but that has put me in the right direction - thank you again.
the webcam image is being handshake through the ecowitt api to cumulusmx - cumulusutils is then picking it up and putting it into that script, it works out the box pretty well - but it only works currently with the Ecowitt HP10 camera.
I’m guessing quite a few Ecowitt users will have the Ecowitt camera though - so if it’s not too much of a trouble I’d love that feature added.
Oh yeah, :-/ in regard to the openweathermap changes - I’m not even going to encourage them with that, next step will be me not providing them with any data - thanks though.
hmmmm that’s awkward, extra temp sensors temperature and humidity are switched around.
Hi Nossie,
Yes there are numerous HP10 owners also using the PWS_dashboard webcam features.
It depends on the quality of the weather-program how easy it is.
As an example: The PWS_Dashboard demo website shows my own HP10.
i use a Meteobridge weather-program which delivers an easy to use direct link.
It can also add weather-values a.s.o. to the weather image so one can use that in other non-weather web-pages also.
Other weather programs can also put the dynamic link in a weather-variable which one can use directly.
For your setup, I add a zip to this post to replace two scripts.
The webcam-block script will solve the deeplink by using the file-contents as the URL.
The image-pop-up script is adapted also.
I attached a screenshot of the adapted block and pop-up.
Important: make a backup-copy of the scripts before uploading the new scripts to your website.
Succes,
Wim
deeplink.zip (6.0 KB)
Seems to be a serious “translation-error” from tag to value.
Never complaints before from other Cumulus users.
To really check, please remove the unused “extra sensor”-links from your easyweather settings.
Debug dashboard
→ Button “Live data values”
------> scroll down to “loaded from”
[loaded_from] => /home/stewartonweather/public_html/pwsWD/../realtime.txt
../extrasensors.txt
invalid ecowitt-file
../extra_cu.txt
If you need help, sent a PM or mail with your “easyweather setup” password so I can check that.
Wim
The Cumulus-tags from the extra sensor file
#
|extra_hum1|hum|<#ExtraTemp1>|!
|extra_hum2|hum|<#ExtraTemp2>|!
|extra_hum3|hum|<#ExtraTemp3>|!
|extra_hum4|hum|<#ExtraTemp4>|!
|extra_hum5|hum|<#ExtraTemp5>|!
|extra_hum6|hum|<#ExtraTemp6>|!
|extra_hum7|hum|<#ExtraTemp7>|!
|extra_hum8|hum|<#ExtraTemp8>|!
#
|extra_tmp1|temp|<#ExtraHum1>|!
|extra_tmp2|temp|<#ExtraHum2>|!
|extra_tmp3|temp|<#ExtraHum3>|!
|extra_tmp4|temp|<#ExtraHum4>|!
|extra_tmp5|temp|<#ExtraHum5>|!
|extra_tmp6|temp|<#ExtraHum6>|!
|extra_tmp7|temp|<#ExtraHum7>|!
|extra_tmp8|temp|<#ExtraHum8>|!
So the tags are in the wrong places.
Check the values from the uploaded extra_cu.txt file.
#
|extra_hum1|hum|14.4|!
|extra_hum2|hum|22.1|!
|extra_hum3|hum|31.5|!
|extra_hum4|hum|-31.6|!
|extra_hum5|hum|27.0|!
|extra_hum6|hum|21.2|!
|extra_hum7|hum|0.0|!
|extra_hum8|hum|0.0|!
#
|extra_tmp1|temp|92|!
|extra_tmp2|temp|51|!
|extra_tmp3|temp|68|!
|extra_tmp4|temp|0|!
|extra_tmp5|temp|41|!
|extra_tmp6|temp|58|!
|extra_tmp7|temp|0|!
|extra_tmp8|temp|0|!
Just adept the extra sensor file. I will update the download shortly.
Cumulus gives a HP10 direct link via the tag <#EcowittCameraUrl>
THANK you.
I added that link to the extra sensors upload and replaced the down-load zip.
|mywebcamimg|text|<#EcowittCameraUrl>|
That tag will replace the $mywebcamimg contents form the settings.
Now a Cumulus+PWS_dashboard user can use that direct link.
Best regards,
Wim
Mark, thank you for responding - you really do have eyes everywhere 
I’m working at the moment but will make the changes later - thank you
When using an extra-sensors upload you should comment the lines you do not need.
F.i. add a # at the first position of the extra temp/hum/7/8 lines
Those lines with a # at the first are skipped by the livedata script
Did you already test the webcam link?
|mywebcamimg|text|<#EcowittCameraUrl>|
Add it at the bottom of the file as processed by Cumulus.
Only the available sensors are displayed in the blocks.
I got your mail today, but I do not see any problems.
Wim