Weather Underground

I see other people are using a Reolink 410 for Weather Undergound. I think I have the FTP set up properly, but it is not working. Could someone give me a brief tutorial on how to do it?

I believe you can do this now with the latest firmware upgrade for the cameras, however I am unable do this myself as the NVR firmware (which my cameras are attached) does not yet support this option. With the older firmware, it required one to send the video and snapshot to a internal FTP server to strip off the video portion and upload only the photo to the site. Those who knew how, could also scale the image properly from it large size before sending it to WU. All of this required extra systems and scripting to work.

I'm sorry to say that I cannot provide you the details you ask at this time, but when they add the functionality to the NVR, I will be happy too. I know others have been playing with it and maybe have it working. I am looking forward to the NVR gaining this as I have two cameras I would like to send image to WU, but today I cannot.

Wow, I succeed. Somehow you have to make the uploaded pic less than 150kb to make it succeed. The upper limit is tiny.
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Congrats! With the camera directly or using the NVR new hardware? Size is one of the biggest issues as you stated. I'm looking forward to testing it over the next week. Keep us updated if you find any other tricks or tips for WU uploads.

It was the camera dirrectly. I was not using a local ftp as a relay station so problem happens. You see, as I mentioned before, sometimes the snapshot took is oversized (150kB) and the refresh to the WU would fail. When the snapshot took is less than 150KB the upload will be a success most of the time. But timeout response can cause the picture uploaded to be not intact. So to avoid that, you may still need to setup a relay station. If you are fine with those drawbacks and just want some fun, I think you will not be disappointed.

Trebacz

I use an intermediate ubuntu ftp server to send the images from the Reolink to. I then use the convert statement to reduce the size and curl to upload it to WU. This is a sceduled command every munite. This allows me to keep the hi-res versions for other things, but send the lower resolution ones to weather underground:

latestfile=$(find /home/vftp/ipcamera/Cam2 -maxdepth 1 -type f -printf "%f\n" | sort | tail -1); #Get the second latest picture
convert /home/vftp/ipcamera/Cam2/${latestfile} -resize 40% -quality 70 /home/vftp/ipcamera/Cam2/small/${latestfile}; #Convert to an WU acceptable size
curl -T "/home/vftp/ipcamera/Cam2/small/${latestfile}" -u TrebaczCAM4:WUPASSWORD ftp://webcam.wunderground.com/ #Upload to WU

I also have another script that builds a 2 hour time lapse from the 1 minute shots from the camera. The script adds a time stamp to the images. It looks great on my weather page.... see the bottom of this page - https://www.trebacz.com/weather/index.html