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Weather Underground Personal Weather Stations

A specific compilation of resources to assist with the additional software and configuration steps to get your Weather Underground Personal Weather Station (PWS) online. See the Getting Your Weather Station Online section for additional resources including comprehensive siting information. See the Weather Underground Personal Weather Stations section for a selection of Weather Stations ready to use with Weather Underground.




The first step in getting online with Weather Underground in all cases is to Signup for a Personal Weather Station Account.
Follow the directions as given on the signup page. Once you have obtained a Station ID and password make sure you enter the ID in all capitals, and the password exactly as you chose it, both fields are case sensitive.

 

Software Configuration Detailed Instructions

Weather Underground Expansion Module for WeatherLink
Weather Underground Heavyweather Uploader (WUHU)
Sandaysoft Cumulus Weather Station Software
Weather Display - the Weather Station software
Weather View 32 Weather Station Software
WeatherPlug / Meteohub Weather Station Software

Additional Weather Underground Resources
 


Weather Underground Expansion Module for WeatherLink

WeatherLink by itself does not send weather observations to Weather Underground. There is an "Expansion Module" written by Weather Underground that adds the Weather Underground upload feature to WeatherLink.

TO INSTALL THE MODULE

  • First install The latest version of WeatherLink (minimum version 5.5.1) or upgrade an earlier version.

If you do not already have WeatherLink latest version, you can upgrade from previous versions, goto: Davis Software Support

  • Download the expansion module here. Save the WuiWlink_1.dll file to your Weather Link Expansion Modules directory:

The Expansion Modules directory is usually in "C:\WeatherLink\Expansion_Modules".
That is... the file needs to go into a directory named "Expansion_Modules" within the Weather Link installation directory. You may have create the "Expansion_Modules" directory if it isn't already there.

  • Quit and restart (or start) the WeatherLink application.
  • Goto the "File" menu and select "Manage Modules". Image
  • Click the "Add Module" button. Find and select the WuiWlink_1.dll file. Image
  • Click "okay" several times until all of the dialog windows close. Image
  • Restart WeatherLink. Image

TO SETUP THE MODULE

  • Select "Wunderground Settings" from the "File" menu.
  • Enter your weather station ID and password, and the frequency of updates. You can find your Weather Station ID from: My Stations. Your password is the password you use to login to the wunderground.com site. Image
  • If you wish, click the "Test" button, and an observation will be sent. A dialog will appear indicating whether the operation was successful.

That's it. If your station is connected, it should start uploading observations using the new module.

TROUBLESHOOTING
IF FOR ANY REASON WeatherLink becomes unstable, or if the module is uploading garbage data, simply remove the module:

  • click the "File" menu and select "Manage Modules". Select the WuiWlink_1.dll module and click "Disable Module" or "Delete Module".

 


Weather Underground Heavyweather Uploader (WUHU)

From the main screen of WUHU, check the box to the right of Weather Underground Account Information to enable.
Enter your Station ID and Password as provided by Weather Underground. Optionally enable "Rapid-Fire" updates. Image

Additional Notes: Observations
The Observation button was added to the main screen that will allow you to upload weather observations to Weather Underground. The observations are optional and will have no effect on uploading weather data to Weather Underground.

To enter a report, simply click the Observation button. There are two sections, one for reporting clouds and the other is for reporting weather phenomena. Select the conditions for each area then click the 'Create Report' button. If the 'Report' edit box is not blank, that information will be uploaded to Weather Underground.

You may report both cloud layer observations and weather observations simultaneously. You need not report weather phenomena if there is no such condition.

The reports will be uploaded for a period of one hour. After one hour, the report is no longer uploaded. This auto-expiration of the report is done to keep the information timely. Otherwise, if you reported a thunderstorm and did not update the observation, it would remain indefinitely.

Please refrain from uploading any remarks that do not comply with the Metar data specification (use correct terminology).
For additional information, see the Metar data specification from Wikipedia. 
 


Sandaysoft Cumulus Weather Station Software

In Cumulus, select menu item Configuration / Internet.
Weather Underground Settings Image

Enabled - Tick this to allow Cumulus to upload data to Weather Underground at the interval specified in 'Interval' below.
Include UV - Causes UV value to be sent with the data.
Include Solar rad - Causes Solar Radiation value to be sent with the data.
Rapid fire - Tick this to enable 'rapid fire' mode. You should also tick 'Enabled'. Rapid fire updates occur every 5 seconds.
Station ID - Your Weather Underground station identifier (note: not your user name).
Password - Your Weather Underground password.
Interval - Time in minutes between uploads to Weather Underground (Interval 5 mins).
 


Weather Display - the Weather Station software

In Weather Display, select menu item Control Panel, choose Weather Underground.
Weather Underground Settings Image

Fill in your Wunderground Station ID, and Password.
Choose your Upload times (click the 5 minutes button).
Turn the Main switch on (so it shows green),  optionally turn the Real time switch on.

Additional - try a test by clicking on Test. You should be able to see your data when you click on view data. You can select the cloud type to include in the data, or you can include the weather conditions from a Metar you have downloaded and have selected ( see the section on Metar download in the help file).

Click OK. Return to the Control Panel, choose FTP & Connections. Image
Turn the Main Internet switch on (so it shows green).
 


Weather View 32 Weather Station Software for monitoring weather stations

In Weather View 32, select menu item Setup / Weather Underground Data Feed.
Weather Underground Data Feed Properties Image

Enter your Station ID and Password as provided by Weather Underground.
Select the Upload Frequency (Every 5 Minutes).
Check the box to enable data feed, optionally check "Use Rapid Fire Uploads".
 


WeatherPlug / Meteohub Weather Station Software

In MeteoHub, select menu item Weather Networks.
Select the checkbox next to Weather Underground Image

Enter your Station ID and Password as provided by Weather Underground.
Select the checkbox next to Weather Underground in "rapid fire" mode, set Frequency: every 5seconds.
Select Sensors to be reported and set upload frequency, click Save Image

 


Additional Weather Underground Resources

PWS - Personal Weather Stations - WunderWiki
PWS - Software Configuration Detailed Instructions - WunderWiki