The Station Registry

When a station is registered it will show up on the map:

http://weewx.com/stations.html

You must opt-in to register your station(s). WeeWX never sends data until you tell it to do so.

Stations are placed on the map using their location, and, if possible, a screen capture is made of the station's URL.

How to turn it on?

In the weeWX configuration file, enable the StationRegistry:

[StdRESTful]
    [StationRegistry](/weewx/weewx/wiki/StationRegistry)
        register_this_station = True

The station_url must be specified.

How to know if it is working?

Look at the log. You should see messages about StationRegistry. If registration fails, the reason will appear in the log file.

grep StationRegistry /var/log/syslog

How does it work?

Each time WeeWX starts, or once a day if WeeWX has been running, the StationRegistry service sends a JSON string to the registry.

Stations are identified by a URL. If you register multiple stations, each must have its own URL. URLs that are not publicly accessible are OK, but in that case no capture is possible.

Captures are made of each station_url periodically.

Stations that have not contacted the registry within 30 days will be removed from the listing.

What information is sent to the registry?

The StationRegistry service sends the following information:

• station URL
• latitude and longitude
• weewx version
• python version
• platform information (the string you see when you do 'uname -a')
• the location of weewxd (used to infer the install method)
• the location of weewx.conf (used to infer the install method)