WeatherFlow - any developers working on integration?

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+1 here as well, but will try the rpi and WeeWX option this weekend.

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Until Hubitat supports continuously listening on a UDP port, an integration probably won't happen.

For now just use Node-Red, WeeWX, etc. I just use Node-Red and puke everything from Weatherflow into MQTT. Then I can use it anywhere MQTT is supported.

Until Hubitat's MQTT support is non-alpha/beta, I am pushing the values I need from Weatherflow/Node-Red to Hubitat via MakerAPI. I'll swap that over to MQTT as soon as it is stable, though.

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Just another (newbie) interested person needing/looking for a WeatherFlow driver(?) to incorporate all the features from the SmartStation. Trying to get away from iFTTT.

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Same answer as the last post. Until Hubitat supports listening for UDP messages, or someone does it that harder way and makes a Hubitat app/driver that implements the weatherflow API, not likely to happen.

I just can't see someone taking the time to do it the longer API way when it is so easy to do in Node-Red or to bring Weatherflow into WeeWX and integrate that into Hubitat.

It is super easy to listen for the weatherflow UDP messages in node.js or Node-Red, though, and push the values you want to Hubitat via Maker API. That's how I've been doing it for months.

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Are you running Node-Red on a pi then importing it, or how exactly are you doing it?

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Talking to me? If so, I have node-red on the same network as my weatherflow. Node-red listens on the UDP port for the messages and then I parse the messages and dump the ones I want to MQTT and Hubitat.

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There is now a specific topic for the WeatherFlow API driver I have just published the first version of. So if anyone wants to get a development API Key from WeatherFlow (hint: Google "WeatherFlow development API Key") you can check it out.

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Fantastic! Thanks @snell, I'll check it out now.

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I have just posted version 0.02. I found a problem with how I was naming child devices. It was more problematic with my AmbientEcowittWeather driver, but I decided to make sure they were both fixed.

A new version of the WeatherSensorChild driver was also posted.