Technical Specifications

Weather Station is a very complete plugin that involves many components. You will find here the technical details of some components to allow you to better understand its operation and its technical possibilities.

Stations and services compatibility

Weather Station can collect meteorological data from stations published on:

• Ambient Weather Network
• Davis WeatherLink Network
• OpenWeatherMap
• WeatherFlow public map

By direct access to the stations of the following brands:

• BloomSky (Sky1, Sky2 and Storm)
• Netatmo (weather station and Healthy Home Coach)
• Pioupiou wind station (V1 and V2)
• WeatherFlow (Sky and Air modules)

From stations sharing data via clientraw.txt, realtime.txt or stickertags files:

• Cumulus
• MeteoBridge
• WeatherCat
• WeatherDisplay
• WeatherLink
• WeeWX
• WsWin32
• …

Measurements

Depending on the capacities of the collected station, Weather Station allows you to grab and display the following measurements:

Humidity

Indoor and outdoor. Relative. Current, min of the day and max of the day.

Wind

Direction, source and strength for current, gust, max on 10 minutes, 1 hour and today.

Astronomical

Sun: rise, set, distance and angular size. Moon: rise, set, age, phase, illumination, distance and angular size. Standard, civil, nautical and astronomical day duration, dawn and dusk times, and twilight for dawn and dusk.

Psychrometry

Wet-bulb temperature. Equivalent, potential and equivalent potential temperature. Absolute humidity (full, partial and at saturation). Vapor pressure (full, partial and at saturation). Air density, specific enthalpy and equilibrium moisture content (EMC).

Scheduled tasks

Weather Station uses the scheduling system built into WordPress to regularly run some necessary tasks. These tasks and their execution frequencies are as follows:

Stations pushing

Stations pushing (when sharing data with PWS, MET Office, etc.) is done every 2, 5, 10 or 20 minutes.

System tasks

Logs rotation, statistics cleaning, cache purge and internal translations updates are done once or twice per day.

Watchdog

The scheduler watchdog runs every 3 minutes.

Generated files URLs

In order to communicate with systems that require file operations, Weather Station creates some specific URLs. The details of these different URLs are as follows:

Stickertags files

Stickertags files are generated and published following the /get-weather/[ID]/stickertags scheme, where [ID] is the internal identifier of the station. So if your site URL is www.example.com and the station identifier is 70:ee:50:01:22:be the stickertags file will be accessible via the main URL http://www.example.com/get-weather/70:ee:50:01:22:be/stickertags/.
Actually, it is published under many secondary URLs too – to match some requirements from stickertags files consumers – following the /get-weather/[ID]/[subformat]_stickertags.txt, where [subformat] is a string composed of uppercase letters. So, the previously mentioned file will also be accessible via URLs like
http://www.example.com/get-weather/70:ee:50:01:22:be/DB_stickertags.txt
or
http://www.example.com/get-weather/70:ee:50:01:22:be/WHATYOUWANT_stickertags.txt
and so on…

 YoWindow files

YoWindow files are generated and published following the /get-weather/[ID]/yowindow/ scheme, where [ID] is the internal identifier of the station. So if your site URL is www.example.com and the station identifier is 70:ee:50:01:22:be the YoWindow file will be accessible via the main URL http://www.example.com/get-weather/70:ee:50:01:22:be/yowindow/.
This file is also published under a secondary URL – to meet the requirements of some YoWindow file consumers – following the schema /get-weather/[ID]/YoWindow.xml. So, the previously mentioned file will also be accessible via this URL
http://www.example.com/get-weather/70:ee:50:01:22:be/YoWindow.xml.