Create your site

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

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).

1. Create your account

Head to pro-weather.com and choose Get started. Sign up with your email and a password — you're signed in immediately, no confirmation email to wait for. That's the account you'll use to manage your sites and billing, and you'll land straight on your dashboard.

2. Create your site

From the dashboard, choose New site (or Create your first site) and:

• Pick a subdomain, your free address, like yourname.pro-weather.com. Choose something short and recognisable; it's what visitors see and what search engines index. Subdomains use lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens (3–63 characters).
• Optionally set a site title — you can always change it later.

Choose Create 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

Open your site and go to Connection, then paste your WeatherLink v2 API key and secret. See Connect your WeatherLink station for the full walkthrough.

4. Publish

New sites start as drafts so you can set everything up in private — the dashboard's setup checklist walks you through it. When you're ready, choose Publish at the top of your site's dashboard (it lights up once a station is connected). From that moment your site is live, and View live site takes you straight to it. You can Unpublish any time to take it offline without losing anything.

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.