IP-based Location giving wrong city

[rob007]

The IP Address assigned by my ISP gives a location of a different city than where my weather station is located. So it does not appear in the search for my particular city even though it is the only weather station in this town. I have the Lat/Lon precise to the location, is there a way to disable the "IP-based Location" and use the coordinates instead?

Platform: TP-LINK TL-MR3020 (plus USB hub)
RAM: 29364 kB total, 3824 kB free (86% used)
SW Version: Meteobridge 2.5 (May 1 2015, build 6325), FW 1.4

[wvdkuil]

The IP Address assigned by my ISP gives a location of a different city than where my weather station is located. So it does not appear in the search for my particular city even though it is the only weather station in this town. I have the Lat/Lon precise to the location, is there a way to disable the "IP-based Location" and use the coordinates instead?

Platform: TP-LINK TL-MR3020 (plus USB hub)
RAM: 29364 kB total, 3824 kB free (86% used)
SW Version: Meteobridge 2.5 (May 1 2015, build 6325), FW 1.4

What do you mean with " So it does not appear in the search for my particular city"?

What search?

Wim

[rob007]

What do you mean with " So it does not appear in the search for my particular city"?

What search?

Oh I am referring to the Weather Underground.

The IP address places us in St. Petersburg (Florida), but my weather station is in Gulfport. When I search for weather stations in Gulfport a few other stations list first even though they are not in Gulfport. I've been hoping it would fix itself, but today I realized the IP-Based Location puts me in St. Petersburg.

The station shows perfectly on the map which is based on the lat/lon coordinates, it just doesn't come up properly in the search.

[rob007]

This is showing under Localization:

IP-based Location: United States / Florida / Saint Petersburg

My weather station is physically located in United States / Florida / Gulfport, but my IP address is coming out of St. Petersburg, probably at the ISP location.

I've seen screenshots of meteobridge that does not have the IP-Based Location. So I'm hoping there is way I can disable or turn it off.

[wvdkuil]

When I check my two stations (1 meteobridge, 1 meteohub) they show exactly as I set when I registred the station at WU.
http://www.wunderground.com/personal-we ... id=ABCDEFG

And my IP-address also is not the same as my location. Quite normal here in Belgium as ISP's cover large areas.

I doubt the location on the WU site is influenced by uploading of WU data by whatever weatherprogram is used.

There is a field called Neighborhood: (required) on that WU edit/registration page.
Did you check if the name you want to be used is Gulfport in that field?

Wim

[rob007]

There is a field called Neighborhood: (required) on that WU edit/registration page.
Did you check if the name you want to be used is Gulfport in that field?

I had the street/neighborhood in that field (49th Street South). When I clicked on the station it did show Gulfport, Florida. But I changed the neighborhood to Gulfport, Florida and will see if that helps. I have a feeling it will show as "Gulfport, Florida, Gulfport, Florida" now though.

Thanks!

[rob007]

After checking the Lat/Lon in my meteobridge, I realized that the coordinates I had put in were changed, probably based upon the IP address. I was able to re-enter them and now they are correct.

As far as showing up on Weather Undergrounds search, that's another animal altogether. I was able to hack a URL that takes me to my forecast page. So I am good for now...

Thanks!