Are there any other sites that you can add your weather station to free...I have a pretty basic station unfortunately. Acurite Atlas
The ability to upload to "other" sites partly depends on the data format that the site accepts, and also whether your system has the capability to even upload anything to a site that isn't on the system manufacturer's list of sites.
For instance, Ecowit offers upload to ecowitt.net, Weather Underground, WeatherCloud, WeatherObservations, plus "custom" sites. In this case, "custom" means pretty much any server that can understand the data transmitted. Attached is a screenshot from the setup app.
In the screenshot, my Ecowitt gateway is uploading to a system on my home network, but by using a different server 'address' that upload could go to a server of my choice out on the internet.
I don't have an Accurite Atlas, but looking at the product page it appears that Accurite is not so flexible. Many system manufacturers seem to think that its a great business practice to sell consumers the weather station equipment, but lock down the data to the extent that many of their customers have few options except to pay an
ongoing fee to the system manufacturer for the customer to be able use the data from the system that they just bought.
I suggest anyone considering a new system explore the cost & availability of upload options
before making a purchase of a system.
In
some cases, there may be 3rd party equipment that can bypass the manufacturer's locked down gateway to liberate the user's data.