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Blue Iris Tools - Weather Overlay, Watchdog & more! 1.6.0

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That's the part that I missed, I only watched the first video on weather overlays and haven't watched the next one yet. But he did have the cpu showing on the weather overlays video. Thank you for your help, great addition to BI. Now to go find the donate button.

Thank you again
 
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Dwalls said:
Thank you again, can't wait to see what else BIT can do for my setup. Great so far and I only found out about it yesterday.

Thanks again
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Thanks! Do you use DDNS? I am releasing an update within the next couple of days that will use the new IPCT DDNS system
 
No I don't, at least I don't think that I do, lol doesn't that something to do with the IP address that my ISP assigned to me? If so, it hasn't changed in over a year.
 
Guess I have allot of reading to do. Lol
I'm guessing that using it like I currently have it isn't too secure, but I have gotten away from putP forwarding. I'll have to do more reading, can't wait to get home and see what changed that I can make to help the CPU usage, I did see that under your wiki link.

Thank you
 
Mike updated Blue Iris Tools - Weather Overlay, Watchdog & more! with a new update entry:

Introducing IPCT DDNS!

-Introducing IPCT DDNS! Free DDNS service for all IPCT members!
-Misc. bug fixes
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I read back through this thread and didn't see it mentioned from late last year. Not sure if discussed already.

At the end of 2018 Weather Underground deprecated their API and now charges for frequent access to weather data. Personal weather station owners who upload weather data to WU can get a new API key that has a modest free tier to allow pulling a limited number of weather/temp/wind etc updates per day (10 requests per hour IIRQ). Any third party service, I believe like BIT using a shared API for users will get rate limited currently unless signing up for the pay API plan.

I worked around this in other use cases by securing my own limited free API key to enable accessing my weather station data. I just happened to notice the BIT temp reported on camera is a few hours old. I was wondering if BIT developer was aware of these WU API changes or already found a solution? If there is some rate limit being hit because the old API is deprecated, one option could be to allow BIT users with weather stations to enter their own API key (like I see in the DDNS options).

Is anyone else seeing stale or inconsistent weather data in BIT (e.g. temp), or is it just me?
 
I care more about what WU is doing to ruin, what was, a decent site.
 
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I read back through this thread and didn't see it mentioned from late last year. Not sure if discussed already.

At the end of 2018 Weather Underground deprecated their API and now charges for frequent access to weather data. Personal weather station owners who upload weather data to WU can get a new API key that has a modest free tier to allow pulling a limited number of weather/temp/wind etc updates per day (10 requests per hour IIRQ). Any third party service, I believe like BIT using a shared API for users will get rate limited currently unless signing up for the pay API plan.

I worked around this in other use cases by securing my own limited free API key to enable accessing my weather station data. I just happened to notice the BIT temp reported on camera is a few hours old. I was wondering if BIT developer was aware of these WU API changes or already found a solution? If there is some rate limit being hit because the old API is deprecated, one option could be to allow BIT users with weather stations to enter their own API key (like I see in the DDNS options).

Is anyone else seeing stale or inconsistent weather data in BIT (e.g. temp), or is it just me?
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Everything about WU is inconsistent. It's buggy as all get out.
My data is still transmitting to WU, without any API key or such. But it disappears from WU frequently.
But since last week, when they announced they would be "making improvements" to the PWS sections, it's been further down hill.
I have many stations around me, and I see them drop off from time to time up 7-8 hrs.
IBM has completely destroyed WU, and slapped us long time data providers in the face.
 
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Yeah the buggyness is not new. Their API changes don't limit uploading data from your PWS. Rather, in order to make requests to pull data, you need to get the new API key from my 2nd link above. Those keys are specifically for PWS owners who are actively uploading data.

The primary impact of API changes seems to be to products /services that make WU weather data requests on behalf of multiple users, with all those requests sharing the same rate limited API key. IBM would like to have products like BIT start paying for those requests over the very low free tier. A work around could be allowing each BIT user to enter their own API key and sort out limits and request frequency on their own.
 
peterfram said:
I read back through this thread and didn't see it mentioned from late last year. Not sure if discussed already.

At the end of 2018 Weather Underground deprecated their API and now charges for frequent access to weather data. Personal weather station owners who upload weather data to WU can get a new API key that has a modest free tier to allow pulling a limited number of weather/temp/wind etc updates per day (10 requests per hour IIRQ). Any third party service, I believe like BIT using a shared API for users will get rate limited currently unless signing up for the pay API plan.

I worked around this in other use cases by securing my own limited free API key to enable accessing my weather station data. I just happened to notice the BIT temp reported on camera is a few hours old. I was wondering if BIT developer was aware of these WU API changes or already found a solution? If there is some rate limit being hit because the old API is deprecated, one option could be to allow BIT users with weather stations to enter their own API key (like I see in the DDNS options).

Is anyone else seeing stale or inconsistent weather data in BIT (e.g. temp), or is it just me?
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This does not use the typical WU API that they charge for, this uses a different web based method which (knock on wood) they haven't shut down yet and works fine. BIT loads a text based web page from WU in the background to avoid having to use the paid API key, so there is no need to purchase a key.
 
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IBM is in the "profit center" business which means all of us who contribute data to WU, at our own expense, will be getting the "business" very soon now. Oh well, as the old saying goes, all good things must come to an end. Their latest "improvement" no longer seems to be pushing data to a logged in user page and has to be refreshed if you want to have current data. The layout stinks, only displays temperature, dew point, humidity and the local map. Everything else is down the page and it is all out of date information. It's 53 outside right now but according to WU the high for today is 34.
 
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IBM is in the "profit center" business which means all of us who contribute data to WU, at our own expense, will be getting the "business" very soon now. Oh well, as the old saying goes, all good things must come to an end.
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I contribute to WU with my weather station and they gave me 1 year of no ads on the app....yay (sarcasm). I am always looking for alternatives of WU to integrate into BIT but haven't found anything that is free that offers as much as WU does. I'm all ears if anyone has ideas.
 
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IBM is in the "profit center" business which means all of us who contribute data to WU, at our own expense, will be getting the "business" very soon now. Oh well, as the old saying goes, all good things must come to an end.
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Smart. And good to know. So the wrong/delayed temp I see must be WU bugs. Didn't notice until today. The other stuff that requests through API is accurate so I thought could be API... Thanks for clarifying.
 
I wish I had a better idea, Mike. They're the only game in town right now to my knowledge but that could change depending on how far IBM takes it down the drain. Wish I could code.

I just use an adblocker and that's a little more permanent and under my control.
 
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As an aside, I wonder how many of us camera addicts are also weather bugs?
 
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I am always looking for alternatives of WU to integrate into BIT but haven't found anything that is free that offers as much as WU does.
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Have you considered darksky.net? It has a deep set of data and is free for the first 1000 API requests per day (one API request every 2 minutes is 720x per day).

Several conditions it provides that I find useful are ‘cloudCover’, ‘precipIntensity’, ‘precipIntensityError’, ‘precipIntensityMax’, ’precipIntensityMaxTime’, and ‘precipProbability’. Storm watchers might like ‘nearestStormDistance’ and ‘nearestStormBearing’.

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Pasted below is the pricing info from darksky.net.

Pricing is dead-simple.

  • The first 1,000 API requests you make every day are free of charge.
  • Every API request over the free daily limit costs $0.0001.
You are required to display the message “Powered by Dark Sky” that links to https://darksky.net/poweredby/ somewhere prominent in your app or service. If attribution isn't for you, email sales@darksky.net for details about white labeling.
 
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