so it looks like there are 4 approaches to getting data: 1) get the livedata.htm page then parse it for values
2) use raw udp/tcp sockets to find the station then query it for data 3) sniff network traffic (requires the station to be sending to wunderground) 4) listen for network traffic (requires the station to be sending to wunderground, plus a dns or http redirect) option (2) will be the most robust and would work out-of-the-box with minimal configuration. i'm trying to do this with weewx-observer, but without the hardware it has been slow going. i think aussisusan has been running one of these for awhile. david malick's observerip (and my weewx-observerip fork of david's work) uses option (1) and option (4) as 'direct' and 'indirect'. david's indirect expects a php or other proxy to write the data to file, then the driver reads from file. the weewx-interceptor driver does option (3) or option (4) directly (no intermediate php or files) i'd like to see aussisusan's implementation get polished up then put into weewx core so everything will work out-of-the-box with no configuration required. so this is for the fine offset hp1000 hardware (wifi console sends data). does anyone know if it will work with the fine offset wh2600 bridge (the little black translucent box with little finger of an antenna sticking up)? m
