# Use Station or Device API for sourcing weather obs?

**URL:** <https://community.tempest.earth/t/use-station-or-device-api-for-sourcing-weather-obs/11135>\
**Category:** Developers\
**Created:** [December 20, 2020, 11:06am UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/use-station-or-device-api-for-sourcing-weather-obs/11135 "2020-12-20T11:06:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![leftieant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@leftieant](https://community.tempest.earth/u/leftieant)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 11:06am UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/use-station-or-device-api-for-sourcing-weather-obs/11135/1 "2020-12-20T11:06:53Z")

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Hi everyone. Have owned a Tempest for about 48 hours (Australian devices finally arrived) and got it up and running today. I’ve got a few projects I’d like to implement with obs sourced from the API.

I started looking at the API this evening and can see there are endpoints for both station and device (my guess being that a station can host a number of different devices, sensors etc).

For my purposes, it appears the weather observations that I’d like to utilize are available in both endpoints.

Given I’ve only got a single device, is there any best practice that I need to be aware of with regard to using one endpoint over another?

Thanks and I look forward to prowling through the forums here and seeing some of the projects and code.

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**Author:** ![GaryFunk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/garyfunk/32/5729_2.png) [@GaryFunk](https://community.tempest.earth/u/GaryFunk)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 3:04pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/use-station-or-device-api-for-sourcing-weather-obs/11135/2 "2020-12-20T15:04:10Z")

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Just use the one that is easiest for your application.