📘 Should I access data from the hardware locally?
To ensure access to the best data, all third-party applications and integrations should use the remote interfaces (REST & WebSocket) as their primary source for data, even if they are running on the same network as the local Tempest device. We offer this UDP interface for those applications that require completely off-grid applications, but this should only be used as a backup to the remote interfaces.
The Tempest's Weather System hub broadcasts UDP messages over port 50222 on the local network. The current production hub firmware version is 171.
JSON
{
"serial_number": "SK-00008453",
"type":"evt_precip",
"hub_sn": "HB-00000001",
"evt":[1493322445]
}
Index Field Units 0 timestamp (Epoch, UTC) seconds
JSON
{
"serial_number": "AR-00004049",
"type":"evt_strike",
"hub_sn": "HB-00000001",
"evt":[1493322445,27,3848]
}
Index Field Units 0 timestamp (Epoch, UTC) seconds 1 distance km 2 energy
JSON
{
"serial_number": "SK-00008453",
"type":"rapid_wind",
"hub_sn": "HB-00000001",
"ob":[1493322445,2.3,128]
}
Index Field Units 0 timestamp (Epoch, UTC) seconds 1 wind speed m/s 2 wind direction degrees
JSON
{
"serial_number": "ST-00000512",
"type": "obs_st",
"hub_sn": "HB-00013030",
"obs": [[1588948614,0.18,0.22,0.27,144,6,1017.57,22.37,50.26,328,0.03,3,0.000000,0,0,0,2.410,1]],
"firmware_revision": 129
}
Index Field Units 0 timestamp (Epoch, UTC) seconds 1 wind lull m/s 2 wind average m/s 3 wind gust m/s 4 wind direction degrees 5 wind sample interval seconds 6 station pressure mb 7 air temperature c 8 relative humidity % 9 illuminance lux 10 UV index 11 solar radiation W/m² 12 rain accumulation over the previous minute mm 13 precipitation type 0 = none, 1 = rain, 2 = hail, 3 = rain + hail (experimental) 14 lightning strike average distance km 15 lightning strike count 16 battery volts 17 reporting interval minutes
JSON
{
"serial_number": "AR-00004049",
"type":"obs_air",
"hub_sn": "HB-00000001",
"obs":[[1493164835,835.0,10.0,45,0,0,3.46,1]],
"firmware_revision": 17
}
Index Field Units 0 timestamp (Epoch, UTC) seconds 1 station pressure mb 2 air temperature c 3 relative humidity % 4 lightning strike count 5 lightning strike avg distance km 6 battery volts 7 report interval minutes
JSON
{
"serial_number": "SK-00008453",
"type":"obs_sky",
"hub_sn": "HB-00000001",
"obs":[[1493321340,9000,10,0.0,2.6,4.6,7.4,187,3.12,1,130,null,0,3]],
"firmware_revision": 29
}
Index Field Units 0 timestamp (Epoch, UTC) seconds 1 illuminance lux 2 UV index 3 rain accumulation over the previous minute mm 4 wind lull m/s 5 wind average m/s 6 wind gust m/s 7 wind direction degrees 8 battery volts 9 report interval minutes 10 solar radiation W/m² 11 local day rain accumulation* mm 12 precipitation type 0 = none, 1 = rain, 2 = hail, 3 = rain + hail (experimental) 13 wind sample interval seconds
* SKY observations broadcast over UDP do not return local rain accumulation. This field will always be null. Rain accumulation data is available from the Tempest REST API.
JSON
{
"serial_number": "AR-00004049",
"type": "device_status",
"hub_sn": "HB-00000001",
"timestamp": 1510855923,
"uptime": 2189,
"voltage": 3.50,
"firmware_revision": 17,
"rssi": -17,
"hub_rssi": -87,
"sensor_status": 0,
"debug": 0
}
Any bits above 0b100000000 are reserved for internal use and should be ignored
Binary Value Device Description 0b000000000 Tempest, AIR, SKY Sensors OK 0b000000001 Tempest, AIR lightning failed 0b000000010 Tempest, AIR lightning noise 0b000000100 Tempest, AIR lightning disturber 0b000001000 Tempest, AIR pressure failed 0b000010000 Tempest, AIR temperature failed 0b000100000 Tempest, AIR rh failed 0b001000000 Tempest, SKY wind failed 0b010000000 Tempest, SKY precip failed 0b100000000 Tempest, SKY light/UV failed 0x00008000 Tempest power booster depleted 0x00008000 Tempest power booster shore power
Value Description 0 Debugging is disabled 1 Debugging is enabled
fs and mqtt_stats are reserved for internal use only.
JSON
{
"serial_number":"HB-00000001",
"type":"hub_status",
"firmware_revision":"35",
"uptime":1670133,
"rssi":-62,
"timestamp":1495724691,
"reset_flags": "BOR,PIN,POR",
"seq": 48,
"fs": [1, 0, 15675411, 524288],
"radio_stats": [2, 1, 0, 3, 2839],
"mqtt_stats": [1, 0]
}
Value Description BOR brownout reset PIN pin reset POR power reset SFT software reset WDG watchdog reset WWD window watchdog reset LPW low power reset HRDFLT hard fault detected
Index Field 0 version 1 reboot count 2 I2C bus error count 3 radio status (0 = radio off, 1 = radio on, 3 = radio active, 7 = BLE connected) 4 radio network ID
