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

[AMP]

@jaydeel Do you know if (or why not) anyone has done anything with the NOAA/NWS API API Web Service to pull weather data for Blue Iris? Do you know if there are limitations that you know of why people aren't going that direction?

Example of data of a station near me:

https://api.weather.gov/stations/KLUK/observations/latest

 

[jaydeel]

@jaydeel Do you know if (or why not) anyone has done anything with the NOAA/NWS API API Web Service to pull weather data for Blue Iris? Do you know if there are limitations that you know of why people aren't going that direction?

This is the first time I've heard of this weather API. I'll check it out.

 

[AMP]

This is the first time I've heard of this weather API. I'll check it out.

Okay cool, I'm diving in and doing the same. I feel like I trust NOAA/NWS data more than other sites, since I haven't quite figured out where OpenWeatherMap / Open-Matteo are getting their data.

Well this is what ChatGPT says: ChatGPT - Weather Data Sources
*OpenWeather * ingests real‑time observations from thousands of official and volunteer surface/upper‑air stations (METAR, CWOP, ASOS/AWOS, etc.), weather‑radars and satellites, then blends them with major global NWP models (GFS, ECMWF, UK Met Office, its own OWHL model) before it re‑distributes the data through its APIs.
*Open‑Meteo * does not pull live station readings itself. Instead it serves output from open, high‑resolution numerical weather‑prediction models that national meteorological services publish as open data (ICON‑D2, HRRR, GFS, IFS, UKMO, ARPEGE/AROME … ≈ 15 models today). For past weather it offers re‑analysis grids (ERA5, ECMWF‑IFS archive, etc.) that already contain the assimilated observations from stations, buoys, aircraft and satellites.

Also seems that those providers are limited to data refreshes of 10 minutes.

I would like to get weather alerts working as a ticker in OBS too, and I should be to do that through that API too. This would be an example of where I could pull the data from for weather alerts at a location near me.

https://api.weather.gov/alerts/active?point=39.0860,-84.5263

 

[jaydeel]

The API is limited to major weather stations, usually nearby airports.

With help from ChatGPT, attached is a PowerShell script

This PowerShell script retrieves the five closest weather stations to a given location using the api.weather.gov API. For each station, it displays:

• Station name and ID
• Distance (mi/km) from the location
• Local observation time
• Temperature, humidity, wind speed/direction
• Conditions summary (e.g. "Partly Cloudy")
• Precipitation in the last 1 and 3 hours
• Station elevation (ft/m)

It also displays the elevation of your specified location using Open-Elevation, and saves results to both .csv and .json in a target folder.

Usage:
weather_gov_stations.ps1 [-Latitude <lat>] [-Longitude <lon>] [-UseImperial] [-OutPath <folder>]

-Latitude / -Longitude – Optional. Defaults to San Francisco, CA if not provided.​

-UseImperial – Optional. Switch to show distance, temperature, wind, and elevation in US units.​

-OutPath – Optional. Output folder for CSV/JSON files. Defaults to C:\temp.​

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EDIT: script updated to V2 - bug fixes and and refinements

 

[samplenhold]

I believe Mike has moved on, unfortunately....and I am worried about IPCT's future as well.

Could you elaborate please? Why are you worried about the future of IP CAM TALK?

 

[looney2ns]

Could you elaborate please? Why are you worried about the future of IP CAM TALK?

Lack of maintenance for the site. Mike not answerings DM's or tags'.
Lots of problems that was going on for months. Features of the site that haven't worked for months.
I had to email Mike at this full time jobs' email address to get his attention, and maintenance is still lacking.

 

[TonyR]

Could you elaborate please? Why are you worried about the future of IP CAM TALK?

1) Sales of Blue Iris in the store came to a halt for a couple of onths months due to "out of stock" flags, e-mails of such by several members ignored.

2) Complaints ignored of a thread's "view" count not incremented

3) My issues with the Blue Iris server watchdog not working not resolved

...and I'm sure there are more.

 

[samplenhold]

So Mike is the one that controls IPCT? I thought it was Fenderman?

 

[TonyR]

So Mike is the one that controls IPCT? I thought it was Fenderman?

Mike is the Admin and generally responds to operational and technical issues with the site, the store, etc. but seems to be AWOL for months.

 

[looney2ns]

So Mike is the one that controls IPCT? I thought it was Fenderman?

Fenderman is either in stealth mode, or MIA for couple months now.

 

[robpur]

Fenderman is either in stealth mode, or MIA for couple months now.

Fenderman's last post was September 22nd of 2024 but he continued reacting to posts until February 25th. The frequency of his activity dropped off sharply after October. One possible explanation for his decreased participation and then ending activity could be a health issue. I've been curious about his possible demise and have done occasional searches to find out what happened but nobody has said much about him. Fenderman has been a big part of this board for a long time, and he was controversial having many run-ins with posters, so I thought that his absence would generate more discussion. If someone knows what happened to him then let me know to help satisfy my curiosity

 

[jaydeel]

Script in post #1444 updated.

 

[samplenhold]

Fenderman has been a big part of this board for a long time

I always thought he owned this site. Hope he is OK.

 

[robpur]

I always thought he owned this site. Hope he is OK.

That's what I thought too, but what do I know