The only requirement of the URL is that it is unique in the station registry. So I guess if you are making up an arbitrary URL be creative. WU URLs are fine, they are used by numerous users in the station registry.
Gary On Monday, 5 October 2020 at 06:11:06 UTC+10 [email protected] wrote: > Tom: > > A question on 1. below. What if you do not have a web page or use any > other (e.g. Weather Underground) site? Are you saying that we can make up > any arbitrary URL as long as it is unique? > > Thanks. > > Mike > > > On 10/4/2020 1:41 PM, Tom Keffer wrote: > > While we don't require it, I strongly encourage you to register your > station. We use the registration information for statistical purposes to > figure out which stations to support, and which to drop. We are looking at > cutting a few stations in V4.2, so it's important we get an accurate > representation of what is getting used. > > It's as simple as no registrations = no support! > > You can see the results on the WeeWX map <http://weewx.com/stations.html>. > > Registering your station is easy: > > 1. In the [Station] section of weewx.conf, set a unique URL for your > station as option *station_url*. If you have a webpage, use that. Or, > if you upload to the Weather Underground or other site, use your station > URL. It doesn't really matter, provided that it is unique. > 2. Turn on the station registry uploader. In weewx.conf, under > [[StationRegistry]], set option *register_this_station* to True. > 3. Restart weewxd. > > That's it! Thanks for your help! > > -tk > > -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/544ee748-0449-4eac-aa21-7d01ba37fe2en%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/544ee748-0449-4eac-aa21-7d01ba37fe2en%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/80e2fb62-370b-441e-8b0e-5aa5622a5b6en%40googlegroups.com.
