I am currently using Weather Display to send to CWOP and WU because that’s what I was doing with my AccuRite and I’d already paid the $60. It’s pricey, but easy to set up.
Now that I have my WF, I’m very much interested in options.
Also:
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Hi Vince - could you maybe provide a link to a how-to? I would be very interested in making this raspberry-pi device.
Ray
If you’re even remotely comfortable with a Linux command-line:
- image a SD card and get your pi on the network, usually with ssh enabled, although you ‘can’ do this connected to a HDMI monitor with usb keyboard if you really need to go that way.
- install weewx - quickstart is http://www.weewx.com/docs/debian.htm
- download and install the weatherflow UDP driver from https://github.com/captain-coredump/weatherflow-udp
- edit your weewx.conf file per the instructions on (3) above, editing in your device IDs
- stop/start weewx and wait 5 minutes for the web pages to populate with data
If you can’t do (1) successfully, then see edx.org or the Linux Foundation for some nice free Linux commandline courses and howtos. You have to have a certain amount of Linux commandline foo to be able to run weewx, but it’s not a terrible learning curve. That software just plain works.
[…update - that gets weewx working with the WF station. You’d need to edit weewx.conf to set your CWOP station id and restart weewx to have it send data there of course…]
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Well, that’s a bit outside my are of knowledge, but I’m willing to learn. I think you’ve turned me on to a project for me and my son. Thanks!
For now, Weather Display on my ancient PC is working:
For some background, the Raspberry Pi Foundation was created in the UK with the goal of putting cheap computers into the hands of kids to learn electronics and programming. Your family project today could turn into a career for your son…
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Is there an update on when we will be able to send to CWOP via the WF App?
There was a post last summer from David saying it was ‘on the roadmap’ but given that the roadmap is super-secret information we can’t see, who knows if it’ll ever happen.
There are lots of ways to get there using a raspi. Weewx is perhaps the simplest.
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If you want to send data today you may with a Raspberry Pi (RPi). With a RPi your quickest and easiest solution is ArchiveSW which you will find in the Third Party Applications.
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The “L” is solar radiation in watts per square meter. If it is greater than 1000, then the capital “L” is replaced with the lower case “l”.
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Thank you for all the inputs! Much Appreicated
I will guess it has to do with FW stations being new and someone not updating a server to check FW stations. I found a LOT if issues with CWOP and it seems a lot of servers and services are no longer maintained.
I have that too but that is very different from QC Graphs.
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wxpage.cgi?call=FW3820&last=12
This is a QC graph:
https://mesowest.utah.edu/cgi-bin/droman/regress_database_top.cgi?stn=C6344
I see, very nice, is that station ID specific to their site?
It seems to be but I’m confused why it is only one letter followed by four numbers. We are told stations have two letters and four numbers.
Right, and looking on their site for nearby station QC, I see a lot of Purple Air stations which are Air quality stations, not weather stations. I have one myself, so I can report out air quality in my region for WU and others since I’m pretty sure I’m the only air quality station running in at least a 35 mile radius. 
Looks like I need to explore their site some more, they seem to have a mix, but pretty heavy on AQ vs WX.
CWOP is a mess and the documents seem to be years old and highly inaccurate.
Wow, this community forum is pretty neat. I just realized I was linked to “Sending to CWOP” from the “Meteobridge now has built Windy.com upload” entry.
Newb moment. 
Ok, so now that I’m in context, and did a real fast scan of the info here, I’m sending to CWOP using a meteobridge, it is very easy. I’m also running a Raspi to host the Weather34 template for my site;
Monroe, Washington Home Weather Station
Right now the lightning piece if From Weatherflow, the rest is from my Davis setup.
The Raspi v3B+ is definitely capably of running Apache and MySQL for a weather site, depending on the amount of hits you get of course.
I’d assume Weewx would not be too different performance wise.
BTW, if you already report to CWOP, your station is online with Windy. If you add your station manually, it will be a duplicate.