# Troubleshooting

URL: https://pro-weather.com/docs/troubleshooting

> Quick fixes for missing data, hidden tabs, stale readings and sites showing "Coming soon".

Most issues come down to one of a handful of causes. Find your symptom below -
and if you're still stuck at the end, we're happy to help.

## My site shows "Coming soon"

Visitors see **"Coming soon - this weather site is not published yet."** That
page appears whenever a site isn't live, for one of these reasons:

- **It hasn't been published.** New sites start as drafts. Open your site in
  the dashboard and choose **Publish** at the top (it's enabled once a station
  is connected).
- **The free trial ended.** Your site went offline when the trial expired.
  [Subscribe to Pro](https://pro-weather.com/docs/account-billing/subscription) and it comes straight
  back - **your data and settings are kept**, nothing is deleted.
- **A subscription lapsed.** If a payment fails repeatedly or a subscription is
  cancelled, the site is paused the same way, and reactivates automatically
  when the subscription is active again.

## No readings, or "This site hasn't connected a weather station yet"

- **Connect your station** if you haven't: see
  [Connect your WeatherLink station](https://pro-weather.com/docs/getting-started/connect-weatherlink).
- **Check the key type.** Pro Weather needs a **WeatherLink v2 API Key and
  Secret** - not a v1 key, and not your weatherlink.com password.
- **Check the station is online in WeatherLink.** If weatherlink.com shows no
  current data, Pro Weather can't see any either. Fix the station's own
  connection first.
- **Check the station selection.** If your account has several stations, make
  sure the right one is chosen under **Settings → Stations to display**.

## Readings look stale

Your site updates **about every 10 minutes**, and pages are briefly cached for
speed, so readings can legitimately be a few minutes old - every page shows an
**"Updated …"** time so visitors can tell. If it's been longer than an hour:

- Confirm the station is still reporting **in WeatherLink** (batteries and
  connectivity are the usual suspects).
- On the free WeatherLink **Basic** plan, stations upload every **15 minutes**,
  so updates are naturally a little slower. See
  [WeatherLink plans & your data](https://pro-weather.com/docs/weatherlink-plans).

## A tab is missing

Tabs appear only when **your station reports that data** and the tab is
**enabled**:

- **Forecast, Astronomy and severe-weather warnings** need your station's
  **coordinates**. If they're missing, set the location in WeatherLink, then
  open **Connection → Reconnect & rediscover**.
- **Air quality** needs a **Davis AirLink** sensor on your account - see
  [Air quality (AirLink)](https://pro-weather.com/docs/features/air-quality).
- **Sun** needs a solar radiation or UV sensor.
- **Almanac** appears once your archive holds about **a week** of complete
  days, on the Pro plan or trial.
- Everything else: check the tile is ticked under **Settings → Cards to show**
  and the feature is on under **Settings → Weather features**.

## Charts won't go further back

Longer ranges unlock as your archive grows - 7 days of charts need about a day
and a half of data, a year view needs about three months. See
[History, records & the almanac](https://pro-weather.com/docs/features/almanac-history) for the
schedule. On the free WeatherLink Basic plan, history starts the day you
connect; WeatherLink Pro/Pro+ lets Pro Weather import your past data too.

## Severe-weather warnings never show

- The banner only appears while a warning is **active** for your area - no
  warnings, no banner.
- Warnings need your station's **coordinates** and the toggle under
  **Settings → Weather features → Severe-weather warnings**.
- Coverage is **Europe (MeteoAlarm)** and the **United States (National
  Weather Service)**. Stations elsewhere don't get warnings yet.

## Alert emails aren't arriving

- Check your **spam folder**, and add `hello@pro-weather.com` to your contacts.
- Alerts go to your **account email address** - the one you sign in with.
- You get **one email per episode**: an alert won't fire again until the
  reading has dropped back out of the alert zone (and at most once every 30
  minutes), so a hovering value doesn't flood you.
- Alerts are part of the **Pro plan and trial** - they pause if a plan lapses.

## A new station or sensor doesn't show up

Added hardware in WeatherLink after connecting? Open **Connection** and choose
**Reconnect & rediscover** - new stations and sensors (including AirLink) are
picked up then, not automatically.

## My custom domain isn't going live

See the dedicated
[custom domain troubleshooting](https://pro-weather.com/docs/custom-domain#troubleshooting) - the
usual causes are a missing TXT record, a record pointing at the wrong target,
or Cloudflare's proxy (orange cloud) being enabled.

## Google Analytics shows no visitors

See [Add Google Analytics](https://pro-weather.com/docs/google-analytics#troubleshooting) - most
often it's the cookie banner (analytics only loads after a visitor accepts) or
a `GTM-`/`UA-` ID pasted where a `G-` measurement ID belongs.

> **Still stuck?**
>
  Email [hello@pro-weather.com](mailto:hello@pro-weather.com) with your site
  address and what you're seeing - screenshots welcome. We'll dig in.
