AcuRite Weather Stations

[KryptoNyte]

Would there be any way to feed SageTV's weather with the data from a unit like this, or would this be a significant undertaking?

http://www.acurite.com/weather-envir...em-909wes.html

The attached image shows an example of what the data looks like on a webpage.

[rnadeau]

I have a Davis Vantage Pro and would also like to use my weather station as a weather feed in sagetv. I think I mentioned this a while back but got no response.

[stuckless]

IF you are using Phoenix, then phoenix has a pluggable weather API. I there there are 4 implementations in there now, so you'd be able to see how it works.

https://github.com/stuckless/sagetv-...hoenix/weather

Sean.

[stanger89]

Could you feed your weather station to Weather Underground? Sage pulls it's weather from that now. I'm not sure how to pick a specific weather station for Sage to grab from Weather Underground though (must be possible somehow, probably a properties file setting).

[rnadeau]

My station has been on Weather underground for 15 yrs and I haven't been able to figure out how to get that info in sage. I have toyed with the the idea where I could setup a menu that would display my weather underground page, but would much rather it show in the weather display for sage. I would check Pheonix for that feature, but there are other features I need that Pheonix doesn't have.

[rnadeau]

Stuckless, what do you mean by pluggable? Like I could plug my data into it?
Virtual Weather Station saves the info in a csv file. I'd like to be able to have the value from the cvs file plugged into sage if that's what you mean. I installed Pheonix 2 and see it has 3 options, one being weather underground. Could I scrape the data from my weather site info on weather underground?

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by rnadeau

Stuckless, what do you mean by pluggable? Like I could plug my data into it?
Virtual Weather Station saves the info in a csv file. I'd like to be able to have the value from the cvs file plugged into sage if that's what you mean. I installed Pheonix 2 and see it has 3 options, one being weather underground. Could I scrape the data from my weather site info on weather underground?

What I meant was that via some programming, you (or someone) could write a weather plugin, that pulls the information directly from your weather station (or from a csv).

But, since you upload your data to weather underground, and phoenix supports weather underground (I think)... it might be as easy as setting your "Location" to your weather station id.

[stanger89]

I went digging for a property to set but then I took a step back, and you can just punch in your city/zip, and it will just bring up a list of all the stations nearby. I don't have have a station in Weather Underground but I could find the one I usually look at that's nearby in Sage and use that.

[KryptoNyte]

I'm using Gemstone, so how would I go about linking it up with something like this:

http://www.wunderground.com/personal...d?ID=KWIMUKWO7

[stanger89]

I don't know about Gemstone (I assume it doesn't mess with the stock weather functionality), just punch in Mukwonago, Wi for the city and you should see it listed as an option.

[KryptoNyte]

When I punch in the zip code (Gemstone), it gives me Mukwonago as the sole option as far as I can tell. There are a few different personal weather stations in the city, but no additional options appear.

[stanger89]

Try punching in the city.

[KryptoNyte]

I can type in the name or the zip code, and Gemstone confirms the city and state, and as far as I can tell, that's it, there is no option presented for a secondary selection. I don't even remember how to set this or what it looks like in the stock STV.

[stanger89]

Make sure you've got the latest STV and Google Weather plugin. Then you should be able to select "Configure the Weather Underground report location"

[KryptoNyte]

On one server, using the default STV, I was able to check/download the latest STV per Opus' instructions from a FAQ thread, and then I was finally able to find that screen by running through the configuration wizard (thanks Stanger for that screenshot).

Setup > Configuration Wizard > Set the General and User Interface Options
(and then the weather configuration was near the end of this group or settings)

On the other server, I can't figure out how to get Gemstone to target just that one weather station instead of the city itself. Maybe I need to revert to the stock STV, setup the weather, then enable Gemstone again. I'll have to wait for an answer over here:

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=51

Thanks again for getting me pointed in the right direction folks.