Hi Ryan,
Glad to hear WLIP is working out for you, it does sound like an easy solution to posting to the web on it's own page. Conversely, I don't think it's too much to expect to have the newest Weatherlink product AT LEAST do what the older serial/USB Weatherlink products do
When a product is unable to post rainfall rate and windgust data to third party weather sites as the older versions did, and when it is incapable of displaying all the parameters that the console does (ie, solar radiation, THSW index), it is dumbing down. This is evident by the catalog description of the item itself, which emphasizes the plug-and-play convenience and no need to know anything about the web. I think that's great, because I'm not web/IT savy myself, but when it does so by sacrificing critical functions (or at least in my opinion as a one year old weather buff), I'm not impressed. I'm also big on GPS units, and have noticed this 'dumbing down' going on with Garmin and their Nuvi series. I frequent GPS forums, and the key complaint with users is that Garmin, which relentlessly turns out new Nuvi products, continually adds "eye candy" and non-essential functions to the new products, while removing functions that veteran users found useful if not essential. Most of us weather nuts want to see our data presented in graph format, it makes it easy to spot trends one way or another. Weatherunderground has nice little graphs for each parameter for your weatherstation (unless you post using WLIP, then your rainfall rate and wind gust data will be mysteriously absent). When you go to Weatherlink.com you get a nice blue sky background and some of your readings. No graphs. No functions to customize what you see. If I was the kind of user to be satisfied with that, I probably would not have went through the trouble to buy and setup my own weatherstation to begin with. But then again, to each his own.
