So a couple of notes, I recently had a ticket logged for my weewx driver that made me go on quite the long search for clarity. As part of that I opened a ticket with weatherflow since their documentation linked on this forum for the API (hosted on github I think) doesn’t match Quick Start . In th…

Nearcast IS the WF ‘corrected’ rain totals, based on their ‘voodoo magic’ observations of other rain source ‘near’ the area where the station in question is located. A bit more about the rain items: [image] Where can I find out what these "obs" values mean? Developers It …

Thanks btst, That’s helpful. I’m trying however to find the definition of the websocket obs_st[19] definition for “Nearcast Rain Accumulation”. I want to validate that it’s returning “since last observation” in the same way that field 12 is. I may just open another ticket to double check. Many …

Wow it is hard to navigate the newly reorganized pages… GettingStarted => Quick Start => Observation and Event Definitions This gets you to the Tempest Observations collected from midnight to midnight in the station’s local timezone. Denoted in API responses with type obs_st_ext … 12 = rain durin…

I must say I’m pretty lost as well :slight_smile: I hadn’t seen: Quick Start Tempest API Quick StartThe Tempest API empowers developers to build useful applications, data feeds and integrations by providing easy access to all the data the Tempest System offers. This is the same API we…

Which is more up to date? The QuickStart gives a few options to register lightning messages: { "type":"geo_strike_listen_start", "lat_min": 37.28, "lat_max": 41.32, "lon_min": -101.76, "lon_max": -91.00 , "id": 12345 } with strike_type = xxx And the other docs say if I send: { "ty…

Sorry for digging up an old thread but I just saw this while I was looking for something. I’ve been using their websockets API for a few years. If any of these questions are still outstanding let me know and I can provide some clarity and review your code.

API Documentation and a few questions

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iladyman February 5, 2024, 6:13pm 4

I can not help with your detail specific question. Nearcast rain does not work for my area so I never used it. This post is similar and links to some information regarding Nearcast rain that might help understand slightly

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