mbrossart Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 I recently added the WeatherBug module and have been trying to set it up, but it does not appear to be updating the Climate Status data. Do I need to populate the Location ID field or does it find the closest station based on my Longitude - Latitude? If the former, do I just use the settings found in the WeatherBug "Change Your Weather Station" page (e.g. Mesa Verde HS)? Also if the former, does it matter if you use a WeatherBug station or a National Weather Service station (e.g. Mather Field)? I have both relatively close to my house. Are there any special firewall rule requirements? I saw this page, but I am running a pfSense and don't see any specific pfSense data. I set a rule to allow any traffic to the IP of my ISY, but it didn't resolve the problem. Are there some troubleshooting steps I should be taking? Any tools on the ISY to test connection? Not sure where to start. Thanks.
mbrossart Posted February 9, 2014 Author Posted February 9, 2014 Found my own problem. I had to go to Find, enter my zip code and double click on my location to get a list of the WeatherBug stations. Selecting one of these properly populates the Location ID in my ISY Climate section et voila! Thanks.
IndyMike Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 mbrossart, Glad you found your way through the Weatherbug setup. One additional request: Please increase to polling interval to 300 seconds (or greater). Using a 1 second poll results in a lot of needless communication and could be interpreted as a attempt to overload the Weatherbug server. I normally use a minimum of 10 minutes (600 seconds) for my polling interval. Many National Weather Sites (NWS) like airports only send updates at 30 or 60 minutes.
mbrossart Posted February 11, 2014 Author Posted February 11, 2014 Thanks IndyMike. Will do. The 1 second interval from this post was more for debugging than anything else. I've bumped it back to the default 60, but will bump it to 600.
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