On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 03:57:50PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
Whilst you conspicuously omit indication of where you are located, I
have found that, here in Australia, the weather bureau has gone
malicious, and blocks access where a web site visitor tries to reload
a web page in less than a (unknown) specified period of time, which is
somewhere around four hours after the web page was last reloaded.
I have found using the pws dashboard for a local weather station on
the Weather Underground, to be both more reliable, and, more localised
(e.g., for me,
https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/IWESTERN754), as the local
Weather Underground is within about a kilometre, and, the weather
bureau closest weather station, is about 10-15 kilometres away. The
Weather Underground PWS dashboard updates, usually,about every 10-20s,
I think.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
Hi, Bret. I am in central Texas, a little southeast of Austin. My
weather station is at alysonwonderland.org.
The weather bureau web site does not restrict access:
https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Smithville&state=TX&site=EWX&textField1=30.0077&textField2=-97.1566
I considered wunderground.com, but the last time I checked, it seemed
to me that wunderground "boilerplate" was too restrictive. So I have
been paying for hosting and have been running the open-source weewx
package for several years.
My hardware is Davis, which has proved reliable. The only failures
have been a bad supercapacitor, loss of an anemometer cup in a
hailstorm, loss of windvane signal due to a lightning strike, and an
anemometer shaft slowed by a spider web. Each problem has been subtle
and has necessitated a bit of detective work, but Davis support in
diagnosis has been exceptional.
RLH
