Hi guys,
just wanted to ask if anyone else is using the BloomSky station and sends data to WU.
About 2 months ago, me and John, owner of BS station, wanted to create a plugin which would upload data to Meteotemplate. Soon after I started creating the script I noticed some strange values for precipitation.
After further inspection I discovered the station actually reports not daily cumulative value, but 24h cumulative value. This obviously is a problem for me because Meteotemplate accepts daily cumulative value and it is not possible to reverse the calculation - if I have 24h I cannot calculate daily. We posted at the BS forum asking if they could maybe change it since thats how most APIs and SW work. We got an answer along the lines "yes of course, thank you for letting us know, we will look into it"
After urging it several times and always getting the same answer or no answer it became obvious nothing is going to happen - one of those supports where after you pay you are no longer interesting to them and they just ignore you.
Anyway so in the end I said, OK lets use data from WU, since BS sends data to WU automatically. Then I discovered that they actually send the very same value even to WU! But WU also expects daily cumulative value and so all the values there are incorrect.
Just look at the graph here for example:
https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=IENGLAND570#history/s20170518/e20170518/mdailyYou can see that daily "cumulative" value is actually going down!
When we contacted BS again saying this is unacceptable because if they really insist on using 24h cumulation, then fine, but they cannot send it to WU as daily cumulation, again, no answer.
It is really disappointing to see this and obviously a major problem and frustrating for the users...
Does anyone else have similar experience? I was thinking that maybe if there is more of us complaining they would at least try doing something about it.