Create your site

Getting started takes just a couple of minutes. You'll create an account, name your site, connect your station, and press Publish. Then your site is live on a Pro Weather address you can share right away.

Prefer to see it in action first? Watch the 5-minute video tutorial on YouTube: it covers the whole journey, from creating an account and connecting a Davis WeatherLink station to a published live weather website. The same steps are written out below.

What you'll need

• A Davis Instruments weather station that reports to WeatherLink.
• A free WeatherLink v2 API key (an API Key and API Secret you generate at weatherlink.com/account, covered in Connect your WeatherLink station).

Not on WeatherLink? Ecowitt / Fine Offset gateways - and virtually any station running through weewx, Meteobridge or CumulusMX - can feed your site through a personal upload URL instead: see Connect other hardware.

1. Create your account

Head to pro-weather.com and choose Get started. Sign up with your email and a password, then open the confirmation email we send you and choose Confirm my email. The link signs you in and takes you straight to your dashboard. It's valid for 24 hours and works once.

No email after a minute or two? Check your spam folder, then try to sign in - we'll spot that the address is still unconfirmed and offer to send a fresh link. Signing up with Google or GitHub instead skips this step entirely, since those accounts arrive with an already-verified address.

That's the account you'll use to manage your sites and billing.

2. Name your site

Your first visit to the dashboard opens the setup page (later on, New site brings you back to it). Two fields:

• A site name, shown at the top of your site. Your town or station name works well, and you can change it later.
• Your address, like yourname.pro-weather.com. It is suggested from the name and you can edit it: lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens, 3 to 63 characters. It's what visitors type and what search engines index, so keep it short and recognisable.

Choose Create my site. Creating your first site starts your free 14-day trial with the full feature set unlocked. No credit card required. The trial covers your account, so extra sites you create share the same trial window (you can run up to 10 sites, each with its own plan).

3. Connect your station

Setup asks which station you have and how it should reach us, then shows the one set of instructions that fits: the API key form for a WeatherLink account, the settings for an Ecowitt gateway, or the upload address for weewx, Meteobridge, CumulusMX and similar software. For WeatherLink, paste your v2 API key and secret and choose Connect; see Connect your WeatherLink station for the full walkthrough. For an upload address, the page waits and checks on its own until the first reading lands.

Everything else on the Connection tab - importing history, a second source, a pushed station's name and coordinates - can wait until your site is live.

4. Go live

New sites start as drafts, so nothing is public until you say so. The last setup step is one button: Publish my site. From that moment your site is live, and View your site takes you straight to it. You can Unpublish any time from the top of your site's dashboard to take it offline without losing anything.

Once live, the overview's What's next list introduces the rest one line at a time: a name and look of your own, how to get the site found, your own domain, weather alerts. Hide the list whenever you have seen enough.

Next steps

• Customize the appearance with your own branding.
• Choose which tabs and tiles appear on your site.
• Set up alerts and warnings.
• Use your own domain on the Pro plan.