Weatherlink.com API frequency

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I’ve looked, and poked prodded 'til I’m blue in the face, and I can’t find anywhere to adjust how often the Weatherlink.com API is called.

Davis allows 1,000 calls per hour, 10 per second.

I just installed a Vantage Vue with the Weatherlink Console, replacing an ancient Peet Brothers Ultimeter 2000. With the old system, I had continuous data, so that’s what I’m used to.

It’s not a deal breaker, of course, but it would be nice to get WD polling more frequently.

Any pointers to something I missed?

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The upload speed wouldn’t match 10 accesses per second. I think the WLL box uploads every 2.5 seconds so even if you went faster you’d just get the same data until the next update.

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1,000 per hour is one call every 3.6 seconds, not 10 per second.

I know nothing about Davis kit but, looking at the Davis setup in WD, why do you need to call the API? Can you not just enter the local IP address to “http get” data and only use the API for History data?

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If you’re on the same network then local access to the data is preferable, i.e. not using the API

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Indeed, but weatherlink.com is only updated once a minute anyway at the fastest rate, so no point in polling it any faster than that.

The default (free) rate is 15 minute updates, with a Pro subscription you can bring that down to 5 minutes, and with a Pro+ subscription you get the fastest 1 minute data updates.

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This isn’t the WLL box, it’s the Weatherlink Console. Not sure of its speed.

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Right, but they allow a max of 10 per second. So you could do 10 calls per second, but only for 100 seconds before you maxed out the hour.

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The Weatherlink Console (the new thing they’re sending with weather stations now) doesn’t have any way to access the data locally.

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It would, but their latest device, Weatherlink Console, doesn’t have any way to access the data directly.

I’m starting to think about buying a WLL.

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I doubt that you can get WD up to that speed :grinning:

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It’ll only send to 3rd parties at those rates.

But the API is not limited to those.

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Of course not. But polling every 2 or 3 seconds would be good.

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But the data is only uploaded to weatherlink.com by the WLC once a minute! You cannot get a faster rate with that device.

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Now we know. . . :wink: