Connection to PWSweather noob question

[Christian Gloor]

I apologize in advance as the answer is probably staring at me in the face but I just don't get it.
I just installed weewx on a raspberry pi with apache and I get the data downloaded from the station and displayed just fine. It was a breeze. Thanks for the awesome work!
Now, I would like weewx to upload the info from our Vantage PRO 2 to PWSweather. I created an account on their site but when I'm trying to add a new station it doesn't let me save it.
It is asking for the API key and their support seem to indicate that for my station to show, it must be through the weatherlink api.
The whole point of using weewx was to bypass the weatherlink apps altogether.
It seems many of you are using weewx in conjuction with PWSWeather, so I must be missing something obvious.
I assume I need to create the station in PWSweather before configuring the weewx end with station id and password.
Any hints to point me in the right direction? I feel I'm missing something obvious...
Thanks!

[vince]

I did a quick add/delete of a bogus station and it was successful both times.

A quick read of their FAQ says you create a PWSweather account, log into the web using that account, create a 'station' under that account, and create a API key for that station.   Then (untested) probably use the station ID and API key as your PWSweather stanza username and password in weewx.conf

It seems like PWSweather lets you make up a station id yourself, but if you want a more normal looking one the WU station signup page is https://www.wunderground.com/member/devices/new and the CWOP signup link seems to be http://www.wxqa.com/SIGN-UP.html if you are anti-WU.  I did my signups in jan-2009 so my memory is very hazy, but I *think* that I did mine in CWOP first.

You'd want somebody who's registered a system more recently to pass along today's scoop.

[Christian Gloor]

Hi Vince,
Thanks for your answer.

I'm confused by the part where you say "create an API key for that station".
I don't see anything to create an API key. It asks me for the API key when I click on "Link station " and select "Davis Instrument", information that I don't have. I tried entering bogus private and public keys and it fails.
If I don't try to link but just fill up information it fails. as per the capture here below.
So I can't even quickly create a bogus station as you could do in a pinch...

[vince]

I just wrote in 'other' for hardware type (for now) and did 'not' click LinkStation and it saved ok.

[Christian Gloor]

Ha!
I found the problem... I wasn't doing anything wrong actually.
I tried setting a dummy station in the middle of the US and it worked.
Looking more in depth, it was linked to my GPS coordinates. I couldn't set it at my location.
What I did as a workaround, is create my station in a fake location and then I could edit and enter the correct GPS coordinates and altitude and save it.
Very weird bug...

Thanks for your help!