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British Forum => OGN-R PilotAware => Topic started by: steveu on March 20, 2023, 07:53:04 pm
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From this topic:
http://forum.pilotaware.com/index.php/topic,2283.0.html (http://forum.pilotaware.com/index.php/topic,2283.0.html)
Noticed the ......
'airfields are now installing these weather stations to accompany their ATOM station'
I have 3 x ATOm stations and am interested as to the nature of this integration and how I can effect it.
Can someone educate me please? Thanks, Richard
I see that option 2 when you have logged into the ATOM ground station (there's a 12 option menu, type the number and hit return) is the installation of a weather station.
I selected it but dropped out out of as the stages were not totally obvious.
Do we have a link to any install instructions?
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Here are the instructions. If you have any problems, please email support@pilotaware.com.
Regards, Chris
To add your weather station:
a. Set up the weatherstation with Weather Underground. Obtain a weather station name and API-key (a very long string of letters and numbers) under ‘MyProfile’, My Devices’
Example: ICORSHAM13, 807c21215edb45999c31215ebb1f992b. The api-key is NOT the ‘key’ which has only 8 characters.
b. Run the configuration through the Owners Site, ’Status', ’Shell’, ‘Weather-Configure’. Choose your airfield ICAO if you have one. Enter the weather station name and API-key. Enable the service.
c. If success is reported, navigate to the Owners Site, ’Status', ’Grid’ and you will see the generated data line like: QFE 0987mb (GB-0185) (age=0 Mins), wind=6, gust=7, dir=88 - this is the data that will be sent to PilotAware equipped aircraft.
To be successful your system must pass several checks;
airfield exists in our ICAO table (we have > 8000 entries),
WX station must be within 2 km of airfield,
QNH must be available from nearest METAR station (< 45 minutes old, < 50km away)
weather data < 5 minutes old.
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Sadly that is a £550+ investment to get out Davis Vantage Vue to connect :-(