Create your site

Create your Pro Weather site in minutes: sign up, name your site, connect your station and press Publish.

Four steps: create an account, name your site, connect your station, publish. Most owners are done in about five minutes. The video tutorial on YouTube walks through the same steps with a Davis station.

What you'll need

Davis: a WeatherLink account the station reports to. You generate a free v2 API key during setup - see Connect your WeatherLink station.
Ecowitt or Tempest: a key from your account on the vendor's cloud, or for Ecowitt, the gateway's own upload settings.
Anything else: weewx, Meteobridge or CumulusMX already reading the station. See Connect other hardware.

1. Create your account

Go to pro-weather.com, choose Get started and sign up with your email and a password. Open the confirmation email and choose Confirm my email, or type the code from the email on the signup page. The link and code expire after 24 hours and work once.

No email after a few minutes? Check your spam folder, then use the resend button on the confirmation screen. Signing up with Google or GitHub, where offered, skips this step.

2. Name your site

Your first visit to the dashboard opens this step. Later sites start from New site.

Site name: shown at the top of your site. Your town or station name works well.
Address: like yourname.pro-weather.com, suggested from the name. Lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens, 3 to 63 characters.

Both can be changed later. Choose Create my site.

Your first site starts a free 14-day trial, no card needed. The trial belongs to your account, so later sites share the same window. An account can hold up to 10 sites, each with its own plan.

3. Connect your station

Pick your hardware (Davis, Ecowitt or Fine Offset, WeatherFlow Tempest, or something else) and how it should reach us. Setup then shows only the instructions for that route:

WeatherLink: paste your API key and API secret and choose Connect.
Ecowitt Cloud or Tempest: paste the key from your vendor account.
Upload URL: copy the settings into your gateway or software. The page checks on its own until the first reading arrives.

Everything else on Setup → Connection (importing history, a second source, a station's time zone and coordinates) can wait until your site is live.

4. Go live

New sites start as drafts. Choose Publish my site and your site is public; View your site opens it. Readings refresh about every minute from then on. To take the site offline, choose Unpublish at the top of your site's dashboard. Nothing is lost.

Your site's Overview then shows a short What's next list: getting your site found, making it yours, setting the station's location, your own domain and weather alerts. Hide it when you are done.