Yes, It seems I was right to fear that Smart Hubs will discontinue WU uploads ;-(
Link to AcuRite forum with details
AcuRite is claiming that the hub will no longer support full functionality of myacurite.com (fine), but the new hub will not function differently than the old for uploading the data to WU. Ethically they should therefore allow old hubs to support data uploads to the WU…
Rachio doesn’t use WU. I had to purchase a meteobridge to make it work. and NO THE NEW ACCURITE ACCESS DEVICE WILL NOT WORK. I have to return mine that I ordered.
I don’t care if it doesn’t report to accu tight. I need to control my Rachio!
Hi Carl,
Were you talking about returning meteobridge or Accurite access? If your PWS reports to any of the major providers (from WU down), we can probably make it work.
With Accurite access switching to SSL connection, meteobridge will probably have issues understanding what the access hub would be trying to send, unfortunately, this is something we will be seeing more and more as interenet is transitioning to the encrypted business model.
The real bottom line here is that Rachio needs to integrate WeatherUnderground natively. Having to do all of this via a Rube Goldberg machine (no offense Gene - your stuff works great!) or via services that not everyone has access to due to the hardware they purchased is ridiculous. To take Rachio to the next level you need to make it easier to be fully accepted by the common home user.
No offense taken 
I’m sure WU support will come to Rachio sooner than later, but with an ever increasing number of issues that WU api had lately, there may be demand for wufyi even after Rachio starts supporting this popular, but buggy, data source.
Cheers,
Gene
Meanwhile, I sit back running on full automatic (Flex Daily) with my home brew ‘don’t water if it’s less than 45 degrees F’ implementation, clueless on what all this fuss is.
(Not really clueless.)
The answer is I live in a dense metropolitan area (suburb of Dallas) where many have their own weather instruments in their backyard, that are literally within a block or two of me, that run stuff fully compatible with Rachio today. This thread, and some others, have given to me appreciation that Rachio still has work to do for those that don’t live close to ‘acceptable to Rachio’ weather instruments, leaving considerable chance that the weather at any given moment at the Rachio user’s site is different than where the closest weather instruments site it.
Looks like some of you are not very close to ‘set and forget’ operation, having to implement other non-Rachio supplied capabilities in order to get Rachio supplied benefits.
This has been an interesting subject.
Best regards,
Bill
I had to purchase the meteobridge because Rachio didn’t use WU.
I returned the New model Accurite Access to continue using what I currently have.
If there is a way to get Rachio to get data from my WU location. Please tell me.
Yes @intherain, there are two ways. Data can either be aquired via WU, or directly from acurite (prefered).
Send me your acurite hub ID and pwsweather station id & password (same info as what you used within meteobridge) to setup@wufyi.com or via a private messages. I’ll help you set everything up.
Gene
I have a current problem not related that maybe you can help with.
All sprinklers just pop up for 5 seconds when a schedule is run. Rachio thinks it’s still watering but it isn’t.
This just started happening this year. I need to REALLY water my 11 zones.
About 5 second sprinklers… Do you have any other accessories (such as the rain sensor) connected to the rachio setup?
yes
The more details you can provide, the faster we can get to the root cause of the issue
It is likely that your Rain sensor is connected in the old way (whereas common is running through the sensor) and the contacts within the sensor have gotten oxidized (or just dirty). Take a picture of your setup if you can, but it is likely that you would need to connect commons directly to the Rachio and hook up your rain sensor to the S1 sensor input of the Rachio.
Gene
Thanks,
I also have a Toro moisture sensor sensor in line with the wires rain sensor for reference. that’s working ok.
So the only real problem with that rain sensor is that I think that it shorts to ground intermittently.
The app will report it activated then deactivated dozens of times a day. That happens when the sensor is dry. When its wet no problem.
The sensor I replaced last year. Can’t the wires get wet? Would a short to the wet dirt cause the rain sensor to report intermittently?
Carl
Dry rain sensors appear similar to a turned on light switch, they short the two wires together. Wet sensors appear as a turned off switch, they disconnect the two wires. Since the disconnected switch (wet sensor) is not a problem, shorting (which would make a wet sensor appear dry) doesn’t appear to be the issue.
I’m curious how you have everything hooked up. Can you please provide detailed description, or (ideally) pictures?
Gene
Do you have a master valve?
Yes. The problem was the system needed a reflash. It works now.
Hi intherain - what do you mean the system needed a reflash? Mine is currently doing the same thing (5 second popup when it cycles to the next zone), but I don’t have a rain sensor. This also just started happening recently. I have a Gen2 with 16 zones.
@Gene, are you aware that Weather Underground has stopped issuing the APIs required by WUFYI? have you found any alternatives to this approach?
Thanks,
@fightinaggie08 try https://beta.wufyi.com it can support WMU without an API key or an acurite device directly using the hub’s ID
You can always use a Raspberry Pi running Weewx and publish to any site you want.
—>https://www.instructables.com/id/Acurite-5-in-1-Weather-Station-Using-a-Raspberry-P/
I have this working on a RPi 2 connected via USB to my display. It does drop USB connectivity every now an then, so I have a few scripts monitoring things to make sure all is running.