Stream your weather station into Jumboshack

Push your backyard weather station — temperature, wind, rain, pressure, humidity — into your Jumboshack dashboard. It posts to your account over a simple HTTPS API, so there's no special weather hardware or new software to build: a tiny relay reads your station and forwards the numbers. About 20 minutes.

How it fits together

  Weather station ──(WiFi)──► vendor cloud / local gateway
                                      │
                        weather relay  (reads the API, POSTs over HTTPS)
                                      │
                          ingest.jumboshack.com/api/ingest/weather → your dashboard

Any station with a cloud API or a local network gateway works. The common, well-documented ones:

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In your Account, add a Location if needed, then add a Device and set its module to weather. Copy the one-time token (jsk_…). That token ties your station to your account, and its readings appear on your Weather tab.

A small script reads your station and POSTs its readings to /api/ingest/weather every few minutes. Here it is for Ambient Weather (pure Python, no dependencies) — schedule it from cron on any always-on box:

# weather-relay.py — Ambient Weather → Jumboshack Weather
import json, urllib.request
from datetime import datetime, timezone

AMBIENT_APP_KEY = "your_application_key"   # dashboard.ambientweather.net → API keys
AMBIENT_API_KEY = "your_api_key"
JUMBO_TOKEN     = "jsk_your_weather_device_token"

url = f"https://api.ambientweather.net/v1/devices?applicationKey={AMBIENT_APP_KEY}&apiKey={AMBIENT_API_KEY}"
d = json.load(urllib.request.urlopen(url, timeout=15))[0]["lastData"]

# map the station's fields to Jumboshack's weather field names
reading = {"station": "Backyard"}
for src, dst in (("tempf","temp_f"), ("humidity","humidity_pct"), ("windspeedmph","wind_mph"),
                 ("windgustmph","gust_mph"), ("winddir","wind_dir_deg"), ("hourlyrainin","rain_in"),
                 ("baromrelin","pressure_inhg"), ("uv","uv"), ("solarradiation","solar_wm2")):
    if d.get(src) is not None:
        reading[dst] = float(d[src])

reading["metadata"] = {"time": datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat(), "software_version": "weather-relay/1.0"}
req = urllib.request.Request("https://ingest.jumboshack.com/api/ingest/weather",
        data=json.dumps(reading).encode(), method="POST",
        headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {JUMBO_TOKEN}", "Content-Type": "application/json"})
print(urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=20).read().decode())

Test it once, then schedule every 5 minutes:

# dry run first — validates + echoes what was understood, stores nothing
# (add ?validate=1 to the URL in the script, run once, then remove it)

crontab -e
*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/python3 /home/pi/weather-relay.py > /home/pi/weather.log 2>&1

Within a few minutes, open your Weather tab — each reading shows as a labeled card (with units) and a hover trend of the daily high / low / average.

Supported fields

Send any of these (all optional; units are applied automatically): temp_f, feels_like_f, dew_point_f, humidity_pct, wind_mph, gust_mph, wind_dir_deg, rain_in, rain_rate_inhr, pressure_inhg, uv, solar_wm2, temp_indoor_f, humidity_indoor_pct. Add "station":"Backyard" to label a station (or send a stations array for several). Verify with ?validate=1 — it echoes what was understood without storing.

Troubleshooting

• 401? Wrong token, or the device isn't set to the weather module — re-copy from Account.
• Ambient API empty? Give it a minute after generating keys; make sure the station is online in the Ambient app.
• Nothing on the Weather tab? Run the script by hand and check the response is {"ok":true,…}; confirm the station is reporting.