I am looking at buying a Personal Weather Station (PWS) and nowadays virtually all of the consumer/home ones report to weatherunderground. I have used the Site Sensor Plugin with openweathermap.org and the Virtual Outdoor Temperature Plugin by MiOS but all of the older weatherunderground plugins out there use the old API. Does anyone know if anyone has written a plugin for the new weatherunderground API that a VeraPlus running the UI7 code could use? Or possibly a command line for Site Sensor that would use the new API?
Other groups seem to have adapted for example the openHAB WeatherCompany binding supports the new API
Everything that Google turns up with regards to the Vera is for the old weatherunderground API.
Yes if you have a physical weather station that supports weatherunderground then you get a free key.
Darksky went commercial and is now longer handing out free keys. If you got a key before they did that they gave you an extra year before making you pay.
The lack of “freeloader” keys wasn’t a barrier to openHAB
Most of the :“home/consumer” ie: cheap, PWS don’t have a way to interface with a PC.
They talk to their console and weatherunderground and that’s it. You are supposed to pull your info from weatherunderground.