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Code: 
https://weather.com/weather/today/l/80504

I just tried with my zip code in that last position, and it matches expectations.
 
Someone mentioned getting the data from weatherlink (Davis Instruments)... is there some documentation I find use to do that ?
 
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I don't have a weather station, but if there was a low end model that could do temp, wind, humidity I'd consider putting one up just so Blue Iris had accurate and timely updates. WUnderground has been hit of miss with me, with certain "stations" going offline and having to switch to others.
 
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It is nice having information from our own weather stations, but the best bet to get BIT's weather system working right away is to use a centralized weather system, like weather.com or wunderground. Something that can take the traffic, is global and reliable. I will however add options to use different weather stations afterward.
 
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crw030 said:
I don't have a weather station, but if there was a low end model that could do temp, wind, humidity I'd consider putting one up just so Blue Iris had accurate and timely updates. WUnderground has been hit of miss with me, with certain "stations" going offline and having to switch to others.
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There is a program called, "Weather Display". The plus is that it will save info from a large number of possible PWS including some cheaper ones in a format that you can easily macro into BI. The negative is that it would be an added program always running on your computer.

It was what I used before Mike and BIT.
 
Mike said:
I am thinking of using weather.com and scraping the page for the data. Been researching it and it seems like it should work, be stable and not require any API key or anything like that. I plan on diving into testing this weekend.

Anyone care to share a link to their town / city's current weather (particularly outside of the US)? Similar to this

weather.com

Manhattan, NY Weather Forecast and Conditions - The Weather Channel | Weather.com

Today’s and tonight’s Manhattan, NY weather forecast, weather conditions and Doppler radar from The Weather Channel and Weather.com
weather.com weather.com

Code: 
https://weather.com/weather/today/l/10001
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From a village in Spain: Barxeta, Valencia Province, Spain Weather Forecast and Conditions - The Weather Channel | Weather.com
But it doesn't tally with my Davis station's observations, located only 700 metres from the village.
 
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There is a program called, "Weather Display". The plus is that it will save info from a large number of possible PWS including some cheaper ones in a format that you can easily macro into BI. The negative is that it would be an added program always running on your computer.

It was what I used before Mike and BIT.
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Hi.
How would you macro it into BI. Any instructions would be appreciated.

Thank you
 
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pupsik22 said:
Hi.
How would you macro it into BI. Any instructions would be appreciated.

Thank you
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It makes text files (aka "temp.txt", "wind.txt" etc.) much like BIT does and you macro them in exactly the same way. The program costs $60 though and it has a learning curve. Knowing how good Mike is with this stuff, I'd think it best to hold off and give him a chance. ;)
 
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CapeData said:
Following - hope something can be worked-out.
Before BIT, I was using the script below. Of course WU won't work now but I'm getting an error on line 66 using METAR source (used to work). Can anyone help?

EDIT:

Fixed the script: line 66 64 should be:
Code: 
Set http = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP.6.0")

I created three separate .vbs scripts for temperature, humidity, and wind, and had them generate (using windows task scheduler) three .txt files which are linked to BI Macros.
See the resulting display @ gatorcam.sunandshore.com

Code: 
'This file pulls XML data from a source, extracts info and writes it to a file.

'METAR example - Vero Beach Airport (KVRB)
strStationID = "KVRB"

'**** If you are using a METAR weather station instead of Weather Underground set METAR = True
'**** METAR weather stations are aviation stations and a 4 characters long
'METAR = False
METAR = True

'choice of values:

'temp_c sample: 10.1
'strValuetoExtract = "/current_observation/temp_c"

'temp_f sample: 50.2
'strValuetoExtract = "/current_observation/temp_f"

'relative_humidity sample: 73
'strValuetoExtract = "/current_observation/relative_humidity"

'wind_string sample: calm
'strValuetoExtract = "/current_observation/wind_string"

'temperature_string sample: 50.2 F (10.1 C)
strValuetoExtract = "/current_observation/temperature_string"

'wind_mph  sample: 0.0
'strValuetoExtract = "/current_observation/wind_mph"

'precip_today_in sample: 0.0
'strValuetoExtract = "/current_observation/precip_today_in"

'precip_today_metic sample: 0.0 cm
'strValuetoExtract = "/current_observation/precip_today_metric"

'windchill_string sample: don't know
'strValuetoExtract = "/current_observation/windchill_string"

'windchill_f sample: don't know
'strValuetoExtract = "/current_observation/windchill_f"

'windchill_c sample: don't know
'strValuetoExtract = "/current_observation/windchill_c"

strFolderName = "c:\"
strFilename = "temperature.txt"

If METAR then
     URL = "http://w1.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/" & strStationID & ".xml"
Else
     URL = "http://api.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXCurrentObXML.asp?ID=" & strStationID
End If

'You probably do not want to mess with the stuff below this line

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set http = CreateObject("Microsoft.XmlHttp")
http.open "GET", URL , FALSE
http.send ""
'WScript.Echo http.responseText

Set objXmlDoc = CreateObject("MSXML2.DomDocument")
objXmlDoc.async = True
objXmlDoc.loadXML http.responseText
If (objXmlDoc.parseError.errorCode <> 0) Then
   Dim myErr
   Set myErr = objXmlDoc.parseError
   MsgBox("You have error " & myErr.reason)
Else
   'MsgBox objXmlDoc.xml
End If

set objNode = objXmlDoc.selectSingleNode(strValuetoExtract)
set myFSO=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set WriteStuff = myFSO.CreateTextFile(strFoldername + strFilename,true)
WriteStuff.WriteLine(objNode.Text)
WriteStuff.Close

Const ForReading = 1
Const ForWriting = 2

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("C:\temperature.txt", ForReading)
strFile = objFile.ReadAll
objFile.Close

intLength = Len(strFile)
strEnd = Right(strFile, 2)

If strEnd = vbCrLf Then
    strFile = Left(strFile, intLength - 2)
    Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("C:\temperature.txt", ForWriting)
    objFile.Write strFile
    objFile.Close
End If

set WriteStuff = Nothing
Set myFSO = Nothing
set WshShell = nothing
set http = nothing
set objXmlDoc = Nothing
set objNode = Nothing
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crw030 said:
I don't have a weather station, but if there was a low end model that could do temp, wind, humidity I'd consider putting one up just so Blue Iris had accurate and timely updates. WUnderground has been hit of miss with me, with certain "stations" going offline and having to switch to others.
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I was looking at them a year or so ago online..
Shop Amazon.com | Weather Stations
 
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I have this one - Accurite 5 in 1. It comes with different options, but I did not need or want their 'desktop' display unit. I bought it with their 'hub' which can upload the data to Weather Underground and you can also view the data on any computer or laptop with a webpage. The hub connects wirelessly to the 5 in 1 and then to your network via an ethernet cable. (My hub is on the ground floor and the 5 in 1 is on top of the chimney of a 2 story house). You can spend a lot more money, but I have been pretty happy with this one. I first got started with My Accurite because I bought one of their thermometers that had 3 wireless sensors that I could place around the house and I was also able to use them with their hub
 

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I have a Hubitat smart hub that pulls in weather info.
When I get some time today I will go into more details. If I am not mistaken, it gets the info from ambient weather.
Also check out weatherstack, they have a free API setup that can be used.
 
Mike said:
I am thinking of using weather.com and scraping the page for the data. Been researching it and it seems like it should work, be stable and not require any API key or anything like that. I plan on diving into testing this weekend.

Anyone care to share a link to their town / city's current weather (particularly outside of the US)? Similar to this

weather.com

Manhattan, NY Weather Forecast and Conditions - The Weather Channel | Weather.com

Today’s and tonight’s Manhattan, NY weather forecast, weather conditions and Doppler radar from The Weather Channel and Weather.com
weather.com weather.com

Code: 
https://weather.com/weather/today/l/10001
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Hi Mike, 100% appreciate your work and efforts on Blue Iris Tools and really hope a fix can be found.

Mike said:
I am thinking of using weather.com and scraping the page for the data. Been researching it and it seems like it should work, be stable and not require any API key or anything like that. I plan on diving into testing this weekend.

Anyone care to share a link to their town / city's current weather (particularly outside of the US)? Similar to this

weather.com

Manhattan, NY Weather Forecast and Conditions - The Weather Channel | Weather.com

Today’s and tonight’s Manhattan, NY weather forecast, weather conditions and Doppler radar from The Weather Channel and Weather.com
weather.com weather.com

Code: 
https://weather.com/weather/today/l/10001
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I'm not a programmer etc however have noticed you can generate an API key from your account area on Weather Underground if that's any use?

Thanks again for all your work!
 
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