Protocol Ambient

Ambient Weather

Setting up Ambient Weather hardware by hand, in weewx.conf.

Generated by tools/build_protocols.py. What each protocol needs is written in that tool; what it is called and what goes into the console comes from the code. Do not edit by hand.

There is a web interface for all of this. It is on by default, and the driver prints its address when WeeWX starts:

INFO user.ultimatepush.driver: The web interface is at
http://1.2.3.4:8080/?token=abcdefg12345

Everything on this page can be done there instead, and one thing is much easier: deciding which reading goes into which database column. See Web interface.

What it is

WS-2902, WS-5000, WS-1965 and the rest of the Ambient range with 'Custom' upload in the awnet app

In protocols = auto	yes
Named by	its PASSKEY
Can be set up before it uploads	Yes

The smallest configuration that works

[Station]
    station_type = UltimatePush

[UltimatePush]
    driver = user.ultimatepush.driver
    port = 8000

    [[stations]]
        [[[garden]]]
            path = /abcdefg12345/report

The path is the whole of it, and nothing in it has to be looked up first. You choose the path and type it into the console. The console names itself in its first upload, that name is written down, and every upload after it has to match, so a second console pointed at the same path is turned away. Make the path with python -m user.ultimatepush --secret and put it between two slashes.

What to put into the console

Protocol	Ambient
Server IP / Hostname	1.2.3.4
Path	/abcdefg12345/report
Port	8000
Upload Interval	60

What else it takes

In the awnet app: your device, then Device Settings. The fields are under something called Customized Upload.

Options of its own

None. Everything that applies to this protocol applies to all of them, and is in Configuration.

Worth knowing

The awnet app calls it Customized, and it behaves exactly as the Ecowitt one does. Choose a path of your own rather than leaving it at /.

An Ambient console and an Ecowitt console can sit on the same port. The driver tells them apart by what they send, not by which port they came to.

When nothing arrives

The most common cause of nothing arriving is that the app saved the server but not the path, or added a trailing slash. The path must match exactly.

More than one station

This is one station among however many others. Which of them fills outTemp, and where the rest of their readings go, is in Several stations.