For what is worth : meteobridge has also implemented wow be as a new
weather network and it's working fine. With solar and with correct pressure
readings.
Grtz

Alex

Op wo 24 sep 2025, 11:42 schreef John Smith <[email protected]>:

> Then the documentation is wrong, because that's not how it's working in
> practise.
>
> On Wed, 24 Sept 2025 at 18:10, 'steepleian' via weewx-user <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> @John Kline,
>> I have also read the documentation and have come to exactly the same
>> conclusion as you so that is what should be used. I am a current WOW user
>> and intend to continue with the new service.
>> https://claydonsweather.org.uk
>>
>> On 24 Sep 2025, at 06:46, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> The the change @Tom made should be rolled back.
>>
>> On Wed, 24 Sept 2025 at 13:10, 'John Kline' via weewx-user <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> > *no idea why @John Kilne had a different outcome*
>>>
>>> *I’m not uploading to WOW-BE, but I can read documentation.  I was
>>> responding to the following request from Tom:*
>>>
>>> Could someone check the WOW-BE API and see exactly what they need. That
>>> should be what we do, rather than make stations "better" or "worse".
>>>
>>> On Sep 23, 2025, at 6:48 PM, John Smith <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>> There was 3 of us getting wrong results before switching to *absbaromin,
>>> the WOW-BE site was showing over 1100hPa, no idea why @John Kilne had a
>>> different outcome.*
>>>
>>> On Wed, 24 Sept 2025 at 10:52, Tom Keffer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm having a hard time following. I know the last commit fixed David's
>>>> station. John: I gather it made yours worse?
>>>>
>>>> Could someone check the WOW-BE API and see exactly what they need. That
>>>> should be what we do, rather than make stations "better" or "worse".
>>>>
>>>> -tk
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM David <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> For me using *absbaromin*, pressure readings for my station being
>>>>> reported by WOW-BE were consistently looking very wrong.
>>>>> They were approximately +10hPa higher than they should have been.
>>>>> Presumable the MSLP (*barometer*) being reported were then being
>>>>> (incorrectly) adjusted by WOW-BE to take into consideration the altitude 
>>>>> of
>>>>> my weather station (around 105m).
>>>>> As soon as I changed to *baromin* instead, things looked much better.
>>>>> So far the WOW-BE barometric pressures for my station have been stable 
>>>>> with
>>>>> no anomalous readings.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> David
>>>>> On Sunday, September 21, 2025 at 11:40:08 AM UTC+9:30 John Smith wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> hPa even...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, 21 Sept 2025 at 12:09, John Smith <[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Not using absbaromin things go wonky, my station was reporting over
>>>>>>> 1100kPa at one stage...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, 21 Sept 2025 at 03:15, David <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Just a query with regards to the updated restx.py file for sending
>>>>>>>> data to WOW-BE.
>>>>>>>> When reporting pressure using "barometer", shouldn't the respective
>>>>>>>> WOW-BE field be "baromin" instead of "absbaromin"?
>>>>>>>> According the the WOW-BE site:
>>>>>>>> "*baromin = relative pressure (i.e. pressure reduced to sea level)*
>>>>>>>> and *absbaromin = absolute pressure (i.e. the raw pressure
>>>>>>>> measurement at the station’s location)*."
>>>>>>>> So for reporting pressure:
>>>>>>>>    - weewx parameter "barometer" corresponds to the field "baromin"
>>>>>>>> in WOW-BE
>>>>>>>>    - weewx parameter "pressure" corresponds to the field
>>>>>>>> "absbaromin" in WOE-BE
>>>>>>>> May be I'm wrong, but since I modified the code to report
>>>>>>>> "barometer" as "baromin" the reported pressure now seems to be correct
>>>>>>>> (before the change they were abnormally high).
>>>>>>>> I have a Davis Vantage Pro 2 so it makes sense for me to report
>>>>>>>> "barometer" pressure since this is what is provided by the weather 
>>>>>>>> station.
>>>>>>>> On Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 9:02:01 PM UTC+9:30 John Smith
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I've submitted a pull request for restx.py to enable sending
>>>>>>>>> weather data to both wow.metoffice.gov.uk and wow.meteo.be, the
>>>>>>>>> code is slightly modified from the diff that glennmckechnie posted to 
>>>>>>>>> issue
>>>>>>>>> #1013
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You can download a copy of restx.py with the changes here:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> https://github.com/evilbunny2008/weewx/raw/refs/heads/master/src/weewx/restx.py
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Just replace the existing restx.py which resides
>>>>>>>>> in /usr/share/weewx/weewx/restx.py when you install using the Debian
>>>>>>>>> package, I don't know exactly where it would be for other install 
>>>>>>>>> methods.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The above file is from the current weeWX master branch and only
>>>>>>>>> tested in weeWX 5.1.0 on Debian Bookworm running a 6.12 kernel from
>>>>>>>>> backports.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I have limited python experience and would value suggestions to
>>>>>>>>> make the code more pythonic if needed.
>>>>>>>>>
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