I relayed the bad news to Dani right away. I was travelling abroad with my family and on the way back to Switzerland (spending time in cars and trains). Unfortunately, we (ThingPulse) were not in a good position to react instantly.

We would have to devote a lot of time to communication activities getting the word out and keeping customers up to date.

We would have to rewrite a significant part of the ESP8266 Weather Station library and adjust all “client” projects (for classic OLED kit, color TFT kit and ePaper kits).

Obviously someone needed to find a replacement for the Wunderground API.

All ThingPulse customers who had recently bought one of our products but had not created their Wunderground API key yet would not be able to use our free weather station software.

The implications became clear in an instant – and they were far reaching.

I thought I’d give you advanced information, although you may already know, that Weather Underground are no-longer issuing a free Developers Licence and so new customers can no-longer download weather data. David, a passionate amateur radio & weather station operator and electronics engineer, is active on GitHub as G6EJD and has been contributing a lot to the ThingPulse open-source projects. This is a sequel to the previous post “ Weather Underground no longer providing free API keys.” We would like to fill you in on what has happened since and how we rode that storm.ĭisaster struck in the evening of Thursday May 16th in the form of a private message from David “G6EJD” Bird to me.

Weather Underground dealt us a blow that caused quite a storm for us, photo: Hurricane Maria

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