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chgio / pws

Code for my Particle Photon Personal Weather Station
https://cggg.io/pws
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Wunderground #1

Open jakesie1309 opened 3 years ago

jakesie1309 commented 3 years ago

Hi there,

Been looking through all the Github repo's to review the Sparkfun code. Notice your weatherstation has not uploaded data to WUnderground and PWS. Is it currenlty down.

My biggest problem at the moment is that i am struggling with the Wind Direction, Rain and Gust. Problem is the Rain and Gust speed never reset. Only reset's when rebooting the photon. Then Wind Direction works sort off. Just looking to see if you had the same issues and if you code works better.

I am currently uploading to numerous weather sites and also to my own Weewx and Grafana instances.

Thanx again and love your weatherstation. Jakes from South Africa.

chgio commented 3 years ago

Hey Jakes, thanks for the issue.

The PWS is currently down, as I've been away for a couple of months and can't troubleshoot it. Still, the Weather Underground uploads would be a problem even if the rest of the PWS were to work: ever since I wiped the old device off their website and made a new one to get rid of the testing data, I have mysteriously been unable to upload anything to the new device. Then there's the unresponsiveness of their support, and the consistent trend of just lack of interest in API services they've been showing for the last years... This is making me lean towards ditching Weather Underground altogether and focusing on more productive alternatives, like the ones you mentioned. The substitute will probably be Windy, on the opposite end of the spectrum given that they recently asked the community for advice on their upcoming API. Would you mind listing some of the weather sites you're uploading to? I'd love to implement some more upload destinations. Even open a pull request with the upload code for them, this is GitHub.

At any rate, I will be on location again in a couple of weeks, so I'll try to get the PWS back up and running ASAP. The wind direction problem you're having might be related to the orientation of your PWS: there's a little marking on the wind vane that signals where its north goes, but it's really subtle and easy to miss. I never came across the reset problems with rain and gust, but I'll look more into it when it's working again. Both the PWS being down and me not encountering the reset problems could be attributed to where it's installed, as it's currently mostly shielded from wind, rain, and sunshine -- I'll also try to improve that while I'm on it.