If you purchased a weather station from Ambientweather.com AND have it reporting data to ambientweather.net AND would like to have a personal weather website, then there is good news: the AWN-plugin for Saratoga templates is now available.
Note that if you have a device (e.g. Meteobridge) that is not a branded Ambient 'Weatherbridge' device, this plugin will not work for you without you paying a license fee to AmbientWeather.com to have your device macAddress listed. That fee is currently $150. If you did purchase your Weatherbridge (or other weather station) from Ambient, then the access is no charge.
What you need:
1) an
account on
https://ambientweather.net/2) one (or more) weather stations reporting to ambientweather.net. If you have more than one, you can only use
ONE of the stations with the template.
3) an
apiKey which is (during the beta API period issued by Ed@ambientweather.com) and after the API beta, issued on your
account dashboard via a request button.
4) if you are
currently using a Saratoga template with other weather software, just use the
update tool with a query of Base-*,AWN-plugin, 26-Feb-2018 to get a .zip of the plugin. Copy your existing Settings-weather.php to another name before replacing it with the one from the plugin.
Configure the Settings-weather.php using
the AWN configuration page5) if
you have never installed a Saratoga template, then use the
Template Download/Installation instructions page and set up a new website.
Be advised that new 'realtime' data is available from the API at 1 minute intervals, and the last 24hrs of data is updated every 5 minutes. Also, you will need to run a cron job to capture 'yesterday' data for display on the ajax-dashboard.
You can see a running sample
here with data from my Davis VP1+ system via Meteobridge.
I am looking to provide a socket.io based replacement AJAX JavaScript to enable even more 'realtime' data in the future -- the current implementation relies entirely on the REST API provided by ambientweather.net
Enjoy, and best regards,
Ken