Totally confused... need some basic help, please

[Nick123]

Hi, I've just bought a Ecowitt station with a GW2000 hub & Ecowitt have suggested using Meteobridge for my needs which are:
* to transfer the weather data (plus that from a separate temperature sensor in 'CH1') to something I can use in my home control.
* my home control is Automation Manager for IoT (Android-based) which receives URL PUT & GET traffic, which I can then transfer to Apple HomeKit
* most of what the Automation Manager (ReST server) receives is PUT data from a WirelessTag Manager (CAO gadgets)
* I think Meteobridge can also push the data from my GW2000 hub, but I know nothing about computer programming other than following simple instructions that I initially used to set up the WirelessTag data transfer
Can anybody out there help me, please?

[jasonmfarrow]

Hi, have you read the useful info on the Meteobridge home page? https://www.meteobridge.com/wiki/index.php/Home

This will tell you a lot about using Meteobridge and the options of where and how to run it. Once it's working the simple interface can automate the uploading of your weather data to any weather service you desire. https://www.meteobridge.com/wiki/index. ... r_Networks. There is no need to be a progammer to send your weather data, and view it, from the many weather services around the globe.

Once the basics are done you can experiment with the various other options like adding a webcam.

Then, like many of us on this forum who have our own websites, you can use Meteobridge to upload data to various versions of personal and highly customisable weather presentations. Examples are Weather34, PWS Weather and Saratoga to name a few which you'll see referenced on this forum. However, these require a little bit of knowledge of setting up and running a website.

As for the IoT and using your weather data within Apple home control, that may take a bit more work and only those who have similar requirements and kit might be able to help. If there are APIs then you'll have to do some level of programming but it will depend on what you are trying to achieve. People who use Meteobridge also post on this forum https://www.wxforum.net/index.php which might have other people working with your collection of kit.

[Nick123]

Thanks Jason... but I'm still none the wiser. It's not even clear to me that Meteobridge works with an Ecowitt weather station. However, my main aim is not for weather data broadcast to on-line weather data sites but to use the data from my own station to control things around the house.I am particularly interested in:
* the temperature data from my separate Ecowitt sensor in Channel 1
* rainfall (cumulative, per day)
* wind gusts
I have a ReST server (an Android tablet running 'Automation Manager for IoT') which is receiving some data already from 'WirelessTag' probes... WirelessTag has a very nice website which allows me to configure a URL PUT verb for each sensor to my server via a local LAN connection. I'm looking for a device that can also use URL calling to push the Ecowitt data into my server.

[admin]

Your server can request weather data from the Meteobridge by HTTP GET requests. The format of the reply can be user defined. This is done by adding a template string to the request and Meteobridge returns data according to the format given in the template string.

How to make your infrastructure to send such a request to Meteobridge and which format of a reply it expects is something you have to solve. A bit of IT understanding will be needed. Home automation is not plug-and-play today. But offers the chance to learn about networks and communication standards.

[Nick123]

Many thanks, I'm on a steep learning curve on URL calling & I'll have a look at the GET request method that you have suggested. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.