V3 & WeatherFlow

Sharonbrown5 · June 6, 2019, 9:14am

can you add me to gene thank you i got rachio v2

Gene · June 6, 2019, 1:50pm

@Sharonbrown5, can you please provide a share link from weatherflow, similar to the one shared by Rrmajiros earlier in the thread.

Gene · June 6, 2019, 6:41pm

@Sharonbrown5, If you don’t have weather flow weather station, it’s ok. Does your station publish data anywhere online?

Sharonbrown5 · June 9, 2019, 2:12pm

trying to figure out how

Sharonbrown5 · June 9, 2019, 2:24pm

https://smartweather.weatherflow.com/share/7233

zjwise · June 12, 2019, 4:54am

@Gene Thank you for being such an amazing community user! Seems like you’ve helped a lot of folks and have been very gracious with your time and talents. Would you be willing to add me that list when it’s convenient and you have time? https://smartweather.weatherflow.com/share/1618

Gene · June 12, 2019, 12:44pm

@zjwise Done (link), be on the lookout for PWS_Wx47784. Glad to help

Gene

zjwise · June 17, 2019, 6:26pm

Thank you so so much, Gene! I’m truly grateful!

NCHighCountryWx · July 13, 2019, 5:55pm

Could you please set up my WeatherFlow Also on PWS Weather

WeatherFlow Smart Weather

7625

https://smartweather.weatherflow.com/station/7625/grid

WU Integrated ID

KNCDEVE47

https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KNCDENVE47

My PWS Station ID I created is

CovingtonRidge

Wxlist@wnharrell.com

Let me know if you need anything

Thank you

gizbug · July 13, 2019, 6:21pm

@Gene

Any chance adding these 2 WeatherFlow stations to the list so I can use them with Rachio v3 and not a WU PWS? Thanks.

https://smartweather.weatherflow.com/station/7981/grid

https://smartweather.weatherflow.com/station/4464/grid

Thanks. Hopefully in the future these PWS will automatically populate in the Rachio v3 app so they don’t need to be manually added!

Gene · July 13, 2019, 7:10pm

@gizbug, Are you looking for these stations to end up on a pwsweather network (useful for Gen 1 or 2 controllers) or weather underground network? (Useful for newer versions, such as Gen 2 from Costco and Gen 3 controllers).

@NCHighCountryWx, sent you a private message, need additional info to authenticate data upload to your pwsweather station.

Cheers,
Gene

gizbug · July 13, 2019, 7:16pm

@Gene

I would like to be able to have to ability to select/use these weather stations on my Gen 3 controller

Gene · July 13, 2019, 7:22pm

I do not have a code setup to generate WU stations on demand, it is on my todo list, but incomplete. If you can register appropriate WU stations to host the data from the two stations you are interested in, I’ll be happy to setup the data transfer so that it should show up within Rachio interface. Alas Gen 3 controller can only use WU network, so adding them elsewhere would not make them available to your controller.

gizbug · July 13, 2019, 7:26pm

Maybe in the future Gen 3 controller can use these weather stations then. Thanks.

Kublait · September 19, 2019, 6:27pm

Hi Gene. Can you please add my WeatherFlow station to PWS Weather? It’s https://smartweather.weatherflow.com/station/10507/grid

Gene · September 19, 2019, 9:00pm

Done (link), be on the lookout for PWS_Wx45855

mda · October 28, 2019, 7:28am

Hi @Gene it looks like PWS_WF5767 is no longer showing the data from my WeatherFlow Tempest

Looking at the Today grid I see the temp, wind, gusts etc are all different than what my WF shows.

Is there anything I can do on my end to fix it, or would you mind taking a quick look on your end please when you have a chance? Thanks!

Gene · October 28, 2019, 6:09pm

I’ve checked that your data is coming from the right station, when looking at the WF dashboard, please keep in mind that not all of the data is available via their real-time API that I’m using.

Here is how the API presents the data:

Here (link) is the copy of a real time data my code would be seeing. I’ll look if gust data can be improved, but I assure you the data pushed into WF5767 is from your station.

If anyone with technical mindset gets interested in analyzing differences between what WF is reporting via API and their homepage, I’m open for suggestions on how data reporting can be improved.

Thank you,
Gene

mda · October 28, 2019, 6:59pm

Thanks. What I don’t understand is why the one you setup for me via WU at http://www.pwsweather.com/obs/KCALOSAN784.html seems to have the right wind and gusts but this one does not.

Wind and Gusts from weatherflow last night: https://smartweather.weatherflow.com/station/5767/graph/23549/wind/1

10/27/2019 11:43 PM  12.5  18.2
10/27/2019 11:48 PM   7.0  12.9
10/27/2019 11:53 PM.  7.1  13.0
10/27/2019 11:58 PM  11.5  15.9

vs http://www.pwsweather.com/obs/archive/yest/WF5767.html that are way off

Hour	Temp	Dew Point	Humidity	Winds	Wind Gusts	Pressure
11:43 PM	57.7°F	43.0°F	58%	2.5 mph NNE	3.6 mph	28.64 in
11:48 PM	57.9°F	42.8°F	57%	1.4 mph NNE	2.6 mph	28.64 in
11:53 PM	57.9°F	42.8°F	57%	1.4 mph NNE	2.6 mph	28.64 in
11:58 PM	58.3°F	39.2°F	49%	2.3 mph NNE	3.2 mph	28.63 in

compare that to Wind and Gusts from weatherflow last night: https://smartweather.weatherflow.com/station/5767/graph/23549/wind/1

10/27/2019 11:41 PM   7.9 13.5
10/27/2019 11:45 PM. 11.4 18.3
10/27/2019 11:51 PM.  8.0 16.0
10/27/2019 11:55 PM   9.9 16.7

vs http://www.pwsweather.com/obs/KCALOSAN784.html (WF -> WU -> pwsweather) that are pretty close

Hour	Temp	Dew Point	Humidity	Winds	Wind Gusts	Pressure
11:41 PM	57.7°F	43.9°F	60%	7.8 mph N	13.4 mph	29.90 in
11:45 PM	57.7°F	42.1°F	56%	11.4 mph NE	18.3 mph	29.90 in
11:51 PM	57.9°F	42.3°F	56%	8.1 mph N	16.1 mph	29.90 in
11:55 PM	57.9°F	42.3°F	56%	9.8 mph NE	16.8 mph	29.90 in

Seem odd?

Thanks!

Gene · October 28, 2019, 7:36pm

your KCAL* pwsweather station gets it’s data from WU service, which in turn gets the data from WF directly. WF57* pwsweather station gets data from WF service, which reports more immediate gust data via API, rather then 5 minute time period that it reports to WU.