Given the disaster that WU has turned in to, I sent a support request to AcuRite asking if they planned on any alternate offerings for "point and click" style posting of Access data. Here's the response -
Thank you for your inquiry, I am happy to assist today.
We appreciate your time and feedback. I will forward this feedback to the appropriate team. With feedback from our AcuRite users, we can make improvements to provide the best AcuRite experience.
The changes with Weather Underground should be temporary, and hopefully should be completed soon. At this time I do not have any further information as to sharing with other sites.
Somehow I don't think they're going to address this, seriously, and I'm not surprised at all.
Back a few months ago I had bought an AcuRite PWS (5in1/Access/console/extras), and had a 'support chat' in February with AcuRite about upload support for other services besides their own and WU, partial transcript below.
Seemed to me to be a serious product deficiency, I won't buy any more AcuRite stuff until it changes.
The PWS universe is slowly getting 'commodized', the sooner the better.
No more of all this proprietary crap, open it up, let the users-market decide. Impose some industry standards, like the marine industry did with NMEA. Try out some different approaches to RF, like using DECT for sensor-console/IPdev comms. Etcetc...
Support chat:
Me: "Is there any way to have this PWS communicate with other weather services besides WU and Acurite? WX services like CWOP?"
AcuRite: "At this time we only communicate with Weather Underground and Myacurite.com"
Me: "Does the Atlas model do so?"
AcuRite: "Regrettably, it does not all our online devices only work with Weather Underground and Myacurite.com"
There would be such a simple software fix to allow comms with other PWS upload websites (CWOP, PWS, etc), and AcuRite (and other PWS vendors) apparently have no intention of doing that very easy addition.
With most PWS's you have to buy tons of extra, expensive, devices and software just to accomplish such a simple task (looking at Davis here, especially).
I'd luv to 'upgrade' my PWS, but no way will I justify all that extra cost and bull---- (other priorities, like an 7ton seawater moneypit
).