NOAA Weather Buoys (NDBC) available?

[alexbk66]

Alex - thanks for the killer support! The marine forecasts are working awesome!

Do you by chance have the NOAA Weather Buoys available? https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_pa...?station=45196
I just found this - https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/rt_data_access.shtml and https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/docs/ndbc_web_data_guide.pdf

Yes, this should work, when I have time.

I need to finish Davis Instruments WeatherLink, then I will add NDBC

[alexbk66]

Ver 4.0.0.94 - Added NOAA-NDBC (National Data Buoy Center)

[niewski]

You are amazing.

I got my 2 buoys up and running.

I noticed that the wave heights on the NOAA page are displayed in FT. In the plugins, I'm having them shown in M. What can I do to change it to ft?

Thanks

[alexbk66]

I noticed that the wave heights on the NOAA page are displayed in FT. In the plugins, I'm having them shown in M. What can I do to change it to ft?

For units I use HS temperature setting (C/F), what's your set to?

[alexbk66]

There's some inconsistency in the API - wave heights are in meters, but tides - in FT. I'll fix it.

[niewski]

For units I use HS temperature setting (C/F), what's your set to?

[niewski]

There's some inconsistency in the API - wave heights are in meters, but tides - in FT. I'll fix it.

Thanks! You know the Americans... Unfortunately, we struggle with a system based on base 10!

[alexbk66]

Yeah, as I said, I need to convert from 'm' to 'ft' - I wasn't sure if it's a mistake in the documentation, apparaently not

[niewski]

Yeah, as I said, I need to convert from 'm' to 'ft' - I wasn't sure if it's a mistake in the documentation, apparaently not

Understood. Just put it there in case it would aid you in troubleshooting / confirmation. Thanks!

[alexbk66]

Ver 4.0.1.39 - NOAA-NDBC (National Data Buoy Center) units for tides and wave height

[racerfern]

I just entered three buoys near me, thank you! I'm missing some data so I turned on log for all three. Where will these logs be located?

[racerfern]

Also wondering if wind speed can be in kts which is how it is natively displayed on the NDBC site for me in the USA.

[alexbk66]

I just entered three buoys near me, thank you! I'm missing some data so I turned on log for all three. Where will these logs be located?
Also wondering if wind speed can be in kts which is how it is natively displayed on the NDBC site for me in the USA.

Log goes to HS log, you can filter by plugin (FROM FILTER), then EXPORT to file.

[racerfern]

Log attached. AKWeather-NDBC.txt
Air Temp seems to be an issue in four of my five stations, but it is in the device name.
Is it possible that when there is a missing value from the station to display the previous value, for example Wave height for 44017 is missing data for a few tried but then it's there.

[alexbk66]

I create HS devices when data for this device is available. So if Air Temp was created, but the current value is Unknown - means that at some point it was available, but now it's not. Possible if you changed the buoy id? You can safely delete the Unknown devices, they will be re-created if data becomes available (you need to restart the plugin just in case after deleting).

> when there is a missing value from the station to display the previous value

I don't think it's a good idea, it will be mis-leading...