Indeed.
That's the general sentiment on the user forums as well. WU say that they believe that a CSV download is adequate replacement for the API for PWS owners. I suspect that few would agree.
DaveL17 wrote:Well, the news isn't good at all. I have not had personal contact with WU, but the word on the user forums is that the lowest paid plan will be $850 (£640) per month or about $10,000 per year. WU reps say that existing keys "will work for now" -- whatever that means. They suggest that users can download CSV files from PWS pages as an alternative.
With this very disappointing news, I'm announcing the deprecation of the WUnderground and WUnderstation plugins.
- I strongly encourage users of either plugin to look for alternative sources for weather data as soon as possible.
- There are several alternatives already available in the Indigo plugin store.
- I'll keep supporting the plugins until our existing API keys stop working, but there will be no new feature development.
- I'll leave the repos on GitHub in case anyone wants to fork them (until GitHub pulls a Weather Underground).
Thanks for using the plugins.
Korey wrote:
Crappy news Dave, I guess this will be the push for me to buy my own Davis VP2 weather station and just pull the data from weather snoop, certainly won't be sharing the data with WU.
Korey wrote:DaveL17 wrote:Well, the news isn't good at all. I have not had personal contact with WU, but the word on the user forums is that the lowest paid plan will be $850 (£640) per month or about $10,000 per year. WU reps say that existing keys "will work for now" -- whatever that means. They suggest that users can download CSV files from PWS pages as an alternative.
With this very disappointing news, I'm announcing the deprecation of the WUnderground and WUnderstation plugins.
- I strongly encourage users of either plugin to look for alternative sources for weather data as soon as possible.
- There are several alternatives already available in the Indigo plugin store.
- I'll keep supporting the plugins until our existing API keys stop working, but there will be no new feature development.
- I'll leave the repos on GitHub in case anyone wants to fork them (until GitHub pulls a Weather Underground).
Thanks for using the plugins.
Crappy news Dave, I guess this will be the push for me to buy my own Davis VP2 weather station and just pull the data from weather snoop, certainly won't be sharing the data with WU.
Thanks for all your fantastic work over the years on this great plugin, I've had it in constant use since you first developed it. I know there are a lot of pissed off people over on the WXFourms. over WU decisions.
Decisions from greedy corporations like this is why I refuse to rely on anything "Cloud based" with my Indigo setup.
Perhaps there is a way to change the plugin to grab the data from the Dark Sky guys or another source?
Colorado4Wheeler wrote:This makes me really sad to see another service monetized to the point of being ridiculous (Google maps being the other, but you expect that nonsense from Google). Hopefully Weathersnoop won't go that way since it's a paid software but this just really sucks. Sorry Dave, you have put so much hard work and dedication into this plugin that it just seems unfair to pull the rug out from under you when your plugin has done so much to promote Weatherunderground over the years. Personally I didn't use WU all that much until I used your plugin when I had issues with the built in NOAA plugin, and since then I've used WU quite a bit. I think that this cash grab could end up really hurting them.
Colorado4Wheeler wrote:Sorry Dave, you have put so much hard work and dedication into this plugin that it just seems unfair to pull the rug out from under you when your plugin has done so much to promote Weatherunderground over the years. Personally I didn't use WU all that much until I used your plugin.
RogueProeliator wrote:SO, who is up for writing that Dark Sky Weather Plugin??
jay (support) wrote:Perry did it already, though I admit I've never used it.
Colorado4Wheeler wrote:I came across this site that lists some good free API's. While it is still a massive rewrite of your plugin, there seems to be a handful of good alternatives for you to launch a new and fresh version. Maybe it'll inspire you to improve on things you have been wanting to improve without the headache of breaking your existing plugin.
Continue to be "Our Weather Guy" Dave .
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