Hi Tom. When I saw that the key I had was no longer working, I went through the steps as stated in your email to generate a new key (I have been registered with WU as a PWS for several years). When I plugged this new key into the rtgd configuration, I still had no info in the scroller. Maybe I had to wait longer? For now, DarkSky is working and I will see how accurate it is. I may go back to giving WU a try.
Thans, Steve On Wed, Apr 10, 2019, 10:55 AM Tom Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Steve, > If you supply data to WU then you can get a new API from them. Gary has > update RTGD to use the new API and properly display the forecast on the LED > ticker. Here are the instructions for getting a new key: > > First, if you are not logged into Weather Underground, you will need to do > so. You must log in using the same email address as the PWS. To do > that, go to wunderground.com, click on “my profile”, click on “member > settings”, and log in if you are not already. > > Then navigate on the screen to My Profile => Member Settings => API Keys. > > If you have a PWS registered, you will see a blank box below “Your API > keys”. Agree to the new Terms and Conditions by clicking in the small box > next to “I agree”, click on the blue “GENERATE” box, and your new key will > be created. > > The key will be masked on the screen, but you can use the “Show” link > below the box to see it. There is also another blue box, which, when > clicked, copies the key to your clipboard. Also on this page is a link to > the documentation. > > If you do not have a PWS registered to your email address, you will not be > able to get a key. > > > > ----- > Tom > > On Apr 10, 2019, at 9:39 AM, Steve Meltz <[email protected]> wrote: > > G'day Gary! Its been a while. As you know I was having a memory leak > problem which seems to be coming from the driver used with my Ultimeter. > Although the memory still increases, it is much less using an old version > rather than the one included with the Weewx update. Anyway, in trying to > track things down, I uninstalled Steel Gauges and RTGD. I spent several > hours yesterday getting them to work, but I found the help included in the > rtgd.py file very useful, so thank you. I think you may have to remove > the ability to use the Wundeground API, however. Mine no longer works, and > the WU website states that they no longer support personal weather station > API's (which I think is a terrible corporate decision..we supply a lot of > their data). I signed up for DarkSky and they allow free use of an API as > long as no more than 1000 requests/day are made. I am now watching memory > growth, and my next experiment may be (I saw how to do this somewhere on > the net) to put in some code which will stop/start Weewx when the memory > use exceeds some user defined level. More fun! > > Oh, as part of the re installation of the Gauges, I commented out the > Steel Gauges section in weewx.conf, and everything seems to be working just > fine. Any reason to un-comment it? > > Cheers, Steve > > On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 7:20 PM gjr80 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, 24 May 2018 08:37:50 UTC+10, Steve2Q wrote: > Gary..its working now!! Thank you. I plugged in my zipcode, > > That's good to hear, ended up taking a bit longer than we thought but got > there in the end. I need to make sure I capture all of this in the rtgd > wiki. > > and also added units = us as it appears to default to metric. > > Sorry, the price you pay I guess for someone from Australia writing the > code :) > > Now let see how long WU keeps sending out the data! > > Yes, will be interesting to see. I have already started work on sourcing > the forecast text from elsewhere. Would ideally like to support our own > Bureau of Meteorology (not much use for those outside of Australia though) > but unfortunately BoM has very restrictive copyright terms. Plenty of other > free sources available though. > > Gary > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/weewx-user/reHbE13IoyU/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/weewx-user/reHbE13IoyU/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
