Angered at Acurite for trying to force customers to spend $129 on their Access hub to replace the SmartHub they will stop supporting, I wrote a Windows program that listens to the SmartHub on the network, intercepts its data updates to Acurite, displays the data and publishes it to my PWS at Wunderground. I currently have it working with my 5+1 weather station and three "tower" sensors. I will be making this software available for download -- and as open source code for any programmers that would like to adapt or improve on what I've done.
Would anyone out there by interested in a Windows application that reads the Acurite SmartHub and allows them to continue to use it?
I'm sure that others will be here soon with better responses, but per info and comments on several other threads here, the Smarthub will die without constant IP communication ('handshaking') with the MyAcurite website/server.
Per the Acurite rep (Victoria), their servers will cease talking to the Smarthubs, then without those handshakes the Smarthub just gives up.
So, does your program simulate a constant 'handshake' with the Smarthub as if it were an Acurite server, in addition to "reading" the data output stream from it?
If your prog does that, and works with Access devices, and also supports uploads to the other PWS data ingesting websites (CWOP, WOW, etc), it will be a winner.