GW5972 HELP PLEASE

[James Robinson]

Hello. I wonder can you help 

Trying ho put my ecowitt weather station in CWOP. This is yo enable it to also be seen  seen by visualcrossing and others, as visualcrossing use CWOP as a source 

I live in Oxton Wirral UK, and here we have a firm jf microclimate, and weather forecast here are must often incorrect 

Now I have an internet based weather  station at home, I want this station ho vecseen in CWOP. But even I registered, I found but add my coordinates on 3csekarate occasions 

My weather station is visible already in wubdergroubd.com

https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/IPRENT20

ECOWITT say they have their own protocol and wunderground but nothing else.

I was advised house the forum, but the ibgo I got changed email early Saturday morning was completely beyond my understanding and I had no idea how to sort it. So I need grll please 

Thank you in advance and I look forward to hearing from you 

James 

[googl...@tedlum.com]

Well, there's good news, and bad news. The good news is, with the appropriate gateway it is quite possible to access the raw data. No access to raw data is the number one reason that stations can't be used with CWOP, or anything else that's not supported out of the box, for that matter. The bad news is that when I say raw I do mean raw; their documentation shows a C/C++ listing to represent the data structure and they briefly describe the UDP/TCP workflow. Unless you have the skills you'd need to find someone to write an interface for you. The raw data first needs to be acquired from the station, resampled and converted to a format that CWOP can accept, and then transmitted. Although the data definition is in the form of C/C++ #defines, various languages can be use to consume the data, but the individual would still need knowledge of C/C++ structures, their language of choice, and the APRS-IS protocol that CWOP uses. I'm afraid it's quite a bit more involved than just checking a check box.

[googl...@tedlum.com]

What all do you have in your setup, they have a lot of different components? Which gateway (GW3000?) Are you running the WS View server, and is that were the files are coming from?

[Don Curtis]

There is a software and hardware manufacturer in Germany called "meteobridge" that is a standalone hardware device that "reads" personal weatherstations and then sends the data to your choice of weather data gathering groups.  CWOP is one of the groups it supports, along with many others. 

The meteobridge must be connected to the internet and must be able to connect to your Ecowitt or Ecowitt's data website. 

I have been using a meteobridge for many years and use it to send data to 7 different weather gathering sites.    It does support what it labels as "ECOWITT CUSTOM"   That may be Ecowitt's database of your weather station's data or it may mean it can directly read your specific Ecowitt device. 

They have a forum at forum.meteohub.de and a quick search finds this thread:

https://forum.meteohub.de/viewtopic.php?p=30908&hilit=ecowitt#p30908

You might want to go thru the information. 

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[James Robinson]

Thank you for that. Most helpful 

As for how I can access the console, I can access the user interface at home, or if I port 80 on the local IP address I can see it on my phone 

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[James Robinson]

GW5972 should be ready to go live on 19 February. Fingers crossed 

[James Robinson]

GW5972 is located in Oxton, Wirral, North West England  we have a strange microclimate here and on numerous occasions, Wirral gets an extremely inaccurate weather forecast. The official weather station for here is Crosby north of Liverpool. But that is too far away for accurate weather forecast for Wirral. Our weather has actually very close to weather in Rhyl, North Wales, but 40 minutes later. But again that is not reliable enough in many cases. 

Hope more accurate weather forecasts appear from now on 

On Monday, 17 February 2025 at 21:52:29 UTC James Robinson wrote:

[James Robinson]

Thank you for that I will check this out. 

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[googl...@tedlum.com]

This would be the way to go if the meteobridge  support works with it. BTW, ecowitt appears to be a white label Fine Offset station. It's possible that software that supports Fine Offset hardware will work with it also - but I must stress "possible".

[Wetterstation Zerbst]

This page describes how you can get an Ecowitt weather station to save the weather data in CSV format on the web space:

https://github.com/wetterzerbst/ecowitt-webspace

This would make the expensive purchase of a Meteobrigde superfluous, because you can parse CSV with PHP.

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[John Tollini]

If you are in the US, check ambientweather.com for the meteobridge package. (SW & HW preloaded along with a license). If you purchase from them, you also get access to ambientweather.net to publish your data along with CWOP and a bunch of other services. There is a token license renewal to maintain access to updates that you should purchase after the initial one runs out.

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