Are you using an outside weather station? If so, which one?

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I have the ambient weather osprey. It is in my paper ui but won’t communicate with OH?

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Has somebody a solution to grap the data of this weather station:

Sainlogic WS3500

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I see that this station can upload its data to WeatherUnderground. That being the case, my WeatherComapny binding will pull the PWS data from WeatherUnderground. As an added bonus, you get a 5 day weather forecast from the Weather Company. It’s a bit of a roundabout way to get the data, as you’ll be pulling the data from the Internet rather than directly from the weather station…

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You can also redirect the DNS locally to some server (Are you using an outside weather station? If so, which one?).

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@mhilbush, Thanks that looks promising, i will dig into that binding.
@andres_meyer : Actually, the configuration software allows to send the Data to a Server which you can specifiy. Unfortunatly i am not smart enoough to get that done. So i will try Marks Binding.

Thank you guys.

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There is yet another way which will give you local control and it will work when your internet connection goes down in a storm…

You will need to purchase a IP observer unit which can work at the same time as your indoor screen, they cost $50 to buy.

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hi

I also got ws3500 weather station is there a way to link it without API Key

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You have several options.

  • as described above, if your station is compatible with the Observer IP, you can buy an Obesrver IP and use @matt1’s binding

  • you can of course get an app and api key from your Ambient Weather dashboard, then use the ambientweather binding

  • if you upload your data to Weather Underground, you can pull the observations using the weathercompany binding. This binding also give you access to the The Weather Company’s 5-day weather forecast.

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I don’t think ambient weather works with my weather station

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Ok, sorry about that. Perhaps options 1 and 3 are still viable?

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how’s does this work without api weathercompany binding.

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What is your concern about getting an API key?

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I got an API Key but what happens after it Expires

can I regenerate a new one?

that’s what I want to know

thanks again

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To the best of my knowledge they don’t expire. However, they can be revoked due to abuse. I suppose they also can be revoked if you stop uploading to Weather Underground. But I don’t know if they actually enforce that.

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I have set it up all working now

can I link this to Alexa or google

thanks

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It depends. What are you trying to do?

I use the Chromecast and Voice RSS bindings to send TTS (text to speech) weather forecasts and weather alerts to my Google Home.

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what I would like to do is

when you ask Alexa/google it says the weather from weather station.

from Oliver

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Sorry, but I’m not quite sure how you would do that.

Maybe you should start a separate thread to get some ideas how to do it.

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okay will do

thanks for your help on this

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I use the Davis Vantage Pro2, with weewx. It’s a premium solution, as the Davis equipment is used professionally by farmers and meteorologists, but it’s very nicely built; my first one is 18 or 19 years old; I’ve replaced a few parts over time; Davis provides good support and parts. When we bought a second home, I outfitted it with another of the same unit & setup. Since there’s no built-in app, there’s no requirement for cloud access; I capture key stats via mqtt and publish them in OpenHab, and also push html charts to a public web site, so I have full access to the data remotely.

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