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Report live weather conditions from your own backyard!
Purchase a Backyard Station today to share your personal weather conditions with millions of WeatherBug users around the world! It’s easy to get started:
1. Purchase your Backyard Station from one of our Backyard Station vendors. (Already own a Backyard Station? Skip to Step 2!)
Ambient Weather
Scientific Sales
Convective Development
Additional Vendors:
Archer Trading Post
Columbia Weather Systems
Davis Instruments
New Mountain Innovations
Onset Weather Stations
Oregon Scientific
ProWeatherStation™
RainmanWeather Store
Rainwise
Star City Enterprises, LLC
WeatherHawk
Weather Information Systems
Weather Shack
WeatherShop
Weatherwise Instruments
ControlbyWeb (select stations and sensors only)
European Vendors:
Meteorologica (United Kingdom)
Meteo-Sell (Germany)
Meteo-Shop (Italy)
Snow Shop (Greece)
SwissWetter.ch (Switzerland)
Weather Shop® (United Kingdom)
2.
Register your Backyard Station on our network. Need help?
Watch this video!
Please Note: Backyard Stations and the Backyard Community currently consist of two separate registrations. We are working to merge the two in the near future.
3. Publish your Backyard Station data to our network using publishing software or a hardware appliance.
Publishing Software:
Windows:
Ambient Virtual Weather Station (Internet Edition required, $100)
Instructions
Cumulus (free)
Weather Display ($70)
Instructions
WeatherLink Module (free, DAVIS Stations only) Note: There's currently a bug in the version number of the WeatherLink module. We are including version 1.1.3 for download, but the module is showing 1.1.1 when loading it (which is an unsupported version). Please rest assured that you are downloading version 1.1.3 and using a supported version, regardless of what the module version screen says.
WUHU / Heavy Weather Uploader (free)
Instructions
Mac:
WeatherSnoop ($20-60) (Mac App Store)
Weather Display ($70)
Instructions
WeatherCat
Linux / Unix:
Weather Display ($70)
Instructions
wview (Free) Plugin/Instructions (Courtesy of Lloyd Kirk)
Hardware Appliances (No PC Needed!):
Hautespot Wi-Fi Appliance ($500)
WeatherHub 2 (MeteoHub) IP Appliance ($289)
Instructions
Control by Web X-320M (About $400) Instructions
The Control by Web X-320M works directly with various compatible stations and sensors. No additional consoles or data loggers required. DAVIS stations require an adapter but do not need a console or WeatherLink package in order to function.
WeatherLink IP Users: Click Here to learn about a service that allows you to publish your Backyard Station data to us using WeatherLink IP without needing to leave your PC on 24/7.
4. View your Backyard Station data on our network.
WeatherBug Desktop and
WeatherBug Plus (version 6)
Click on
Travel Weather, then
Backyard Network to see your Backyard Station data.
Users are
not able to set their Backyard Station as the default station on the WeatherBug Home Screen, nor access International Stations in WeatherBug 6. These features will be available in the forthcoming WeatherBug 7.
Users can test WeatherBug 7 here.
Users who publish their Backyard Station data to WeatherBug Backyard
will receive free renewals of WeatherBug Plus (after their first purchased year subscription) as long as they continue to send us their Backyard Station data.
(WeatherBug 7 is not currently available in a Plus version but will be in the near future).
Users can also view their Backyard Station data at the following places:
Enter your Zip Code, then click on Change Weather Station to see your Backyard Station from the list and map of weather stations.
Enter your Zip Code, then click on Change Weather Station to see your Backyard Station from the list and map of weather stations.
WeatherBug Blackberry Mobile App (Coming soon to iOS and Android!)
Requires Internet Explorer or FireFox. Currently Google Chrome and Safari are not supported.
Windows 8 App
Our Windows 8 app allows users to access Backyard Stations easily. Simply search the Windows Store for "WeatherBug", then search the network to find your Backyard Station from the list.
If you are an international Backyard Station owner sending data to our network, please
contact us once you have begun sending data to our network so that we can enable your station on the network.
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