Using meteohub for other weather networks (e.g. scottish wea

[StratoQ]

I suppose a question more for Skyewright. Do you use meteohub to upload to this network? Or do you use WD live to do it?

Can meteohub (alone) do it? If so, how? Or is this something to be put in the wish list?

[terrax]

The "scottish weather network" is not on the list of supported networks, but Meteohub has a tradition of rapidly adding new networks.

I would suppose that you drop at note to "info(at)meteohub.de" with some information how the protocol is or whom to connect at the network to get this information. There is a good chance that Boris will pick this up, when back from vacation, if it is not completely different from what the other networks demand.

just my $0.02

[terrax]

I just did a little browsing on the scottish weather network and it turns out, that they are able to rip the information they need from a WD clientraw.txt file. Since Meteohub now supports WD-live by generating the clientraw files, it looks to me all you have to do is...
1) get an account at the scottish weather network and tell them, that data is provided in WD clientraw format.
2) direct the network to the location of your web server where the uploads from meteohub are landing at.
3) let meteohub generate the clientraw file by choosing this option at the "graph upload" page and setup your ftp upload on the "push services" page (if not already done).

That should be all :-)

[skyewright]

I suppose a question more for Skyewright. Do you use meteohub to upload to this network? Or do you use WD live to do it?

Can meteohub (alone) do it? If so, how? Or is this something to be put in the wish list?

I do suppy that network with data direct from Meteohub, but I don't use the WDL options to do so because they didn't exist when SCWN started up.

Instead I set up a html template to populate an equivalent to the "VWS_stickertags.htm" file.

I made a copy of that template available on the forum in article:

http://www.meteohub.de/joomla/index.php ... d=780#1313

Now that MH supports WDL / clientraw that would be an alternative route to feeding data to SCWN (or any of the equivalent networks serving other areas), since they can work with either clientraw or VWS_stickertags.

[StratoQ]

Thanx for that Terrax and Skyewright. Looks like it gives me two possible options then, if and when the Irish weather network gets off the ground.

[skyewright]

Thanx for that Terrax and Skyewright. Looks like it gives me two possible options then, if and when the Irish weather network gets off the ground.

An Irish Weather Network would be interesting even from here - since quite a lot of our weather comes from your direction... :)

One factor that has me staying with the VWS_stickertag.htm approach for the SCWN (Scottish Weather Network) is that it means that the 'icon' on the network map is based on a local METAR (Benbecular). If I used clientraw, the icon value that MH places in that file would be used, and that icon (presumably) is just based on the WMR928 console icon which is (I believe) derived from a simple pressure based algotrithm. The METAR based icon is on the whole more likely to be representative...

[StratoQ]

Quicker than I thought. The Irish weather network is now up and running. (Havent got my station up yet though).


http://www.irelandsweather.com/

[skyewright]

Quicker than I thought. The Irish weather network is now up and running.

Already 6 stations. That's a good start. :)