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Things have relaxed a little with the 2.0 platform in that you can also now upload for free from the WL program to the Basic level of WLC2, which continues all the features of the 1.0 platform. If you wish to use the new additional features of the Pro level then yes that requires an annual plan (but these extra features were never previously available so no-one's lost anything relative to the 1.0 situation).
With wl.comv1 one did not need a weather-program at all if one was using a WLIP.
Maybe it is easier and less expensive to upload to wl.comv2 compared to the past. Who cares, there are multiple free sites offering the same facilities as wl.comv2 will offer.
But they shredded ONE essential feature in the move from v1 to v2. PLEASE do not "forget" that in every post you write: ALL owners of a WLIP using WL.comv1 will
probably certainly loose the xml download which contained alomst the same weather-data as the PC Weatherlink program uses. And all that data , including high-lows was updated multiple times per hour also. V2 continues to update current conditions 1/minute. But all other data is now only updated 1/hour.
Therefor, before June 2018, current WLIP owners who use the xml to get the data to their private websites will be left in the cold. That are Saratoga- and Leuven-template users but also WLIP owners who painstakingly developed their own private websites or other weather-scripts. N0-xml also means a new device or weather-program one has to acquire, and time to learn the new and different tags for weather-data, and time to adapt or write new scripts, and so on.
Maybe their will be something yet unknown but usable solution, but there is no description yet what it will be. And certainly we do not need a CSV download via e-mail? or a current-condition-only json file?
When do the previous customers who bought a WL-IP to use that device to get the data to their website get the needed information
about whatthey can use to continue to get their
own data to their websites from wl.comv2.
You seem to have close contacts with the development teams at Davis, maybe you could point them to our posts and to the remarks from Ken True, me and others about the lack of decent information.
If Davis does not want to offer a xml-v1 replacement in some form, please let them tell us NOW. We should be able to develop alternative solutions before the forced move from wl.comv1 to v2 starting in the near future.
Wim
P.S. Maybe a class-action suit from all WLIP owners about the "forced downgrade" will help. Anybody some ideas about that?