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 <stev...@gmail.com> 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 <gjroder...@gmail.com> 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 > weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
