Old Arris weather URL for daily forecast is being redirected to xweather.com weather map

[RonV42]

I noticed this week that the daily forecast links are being redirected to xweather.com's live weather map. Looks like we lost the ability to see daily hourly forecasts by xweather. Is there another site or maybe a way to get daily forecasts back through xweather.?

[michaelundwd]

According to this [https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=22103], Vaisala xweather seem to be committed to keeping the Aeris links indefinitely. Currently, I have no problem in downloading the 1, 3 and 24 hour interval forecasts, so it does not look like we need to make an immediate change.
For the long-term however, and to prevent us from being caught out should the Aeris forwarding be stopped, it would make sense to change the Aeris references to xweather, especially for the benefit of new Belchertown skin users.
A search through my system running in a docker container revealed changes would be needed to the following files to change all the references to aeris to xweather:
./weewx.conf
./bin/user/installer/Belchertown/install.py
./bin/user/belchertown.py
./skins/Belchertown/skin.conf
./skins/Belchertown/js/belchertown.js.tmpl
plus of course the ReadMe file

I'm happy to make the changes but, this would best be done after PR #974 has been actioned

@pob are you planning to do this?

Michael

[RonV42]

Just a heads up that the redirected displayed weather map for daily forecast link's is really slow and browser resource intensive. Try this link that is being presented in BelcherTown:

https://www.aerisweather.com/weather/local/us/il/hoffman%20estates/forecast/2025/02/11

[michaelundwd]

Have you tried using the xweather link for the map to see if that’s any faster? I don’t use the aeris weather map. From: RonV42 ***@***.***> Sent: 11 February 2025 16:19 To: poblabs/weewx-belchertown ***@***.***> Cc: michaelundwd ***@***.***>; Comment ***@***.***> Subject: Re: [poblabs/weewx-belchertown] Old Arris weather URL for daily forecast is being redirected to xweather.com weather map (Discussion #982) Just a heads up that the redirected displayed weather map for daily forecast link's is really slow and browser resource intensive. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#982 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AKYOWQDX3B6KSDAUV6W2F2D2PIPIRAVCNFSM6AAAAABWXYXCJ6VHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43URDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHMYTEMJUGY3DGNI>. You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.******@***.***>>

[RonV42]

Yes tired it directly in the browser and the perforce of their site is poor. Tested in Chrome, EDGE, and Firefox. I just used the base url:

https://live.xweather.com/

Side by side Windy's site is like a jet engine compared to xweather.com's map.

[Millardiang]

You need to give a place location and coordinates then loading is much faster.