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Curious about connection my 2902 weather station to Weather Underground directly. There seems to be no instruction I can find about the proper settings.

1. I have an account on wunderground.com with a station ID and key

2. I've entered these in the 2902's web admin portal, and enabled the radio buttons for Internet integration with Weather Underground.

3. The portal page defaults weatherstation/updateweatherstation.php as the upload path for the data, but leaves the server/IP box blank. No idea if this is the correct path for wunderground.

4. I put in wunderground.com for the server, and saved it. Again no idea if this is correct.

5. That complete path (https://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/updateweatherstation.php) is a non-existent page on wunderground.com, so either 3 or 4 or both are wrong.

But nowhere can I find the correct values to establish a connection.

Would appreciate some help! Thank you.

I've had a Rain Bird SMTe controller for, I don't know, 15 years. It can be a little water-happy if you let it, but that is easily adjusted for, and overall I have been very happy with it. As I have updated and expanded my zones over the years, and what is in them, I've really liked that you can tell it exactly what is going on in each zone -- vegetation, head type, flow rate, sun/shade, soil type, etc. -- and it will derive the basic program, and then use its wired weather station to make adjustments based on rainfall and temperature at your house.

My only issue with it even after this time is that it is not online-capable. Normally this is not an issue, as I don't mind walking over to the cabinet occasionally for an adjustment or to perform a supplemental watering. But due to extensive summer out-of-town time these days -- peak watering season -- some remote control would be nice, just in case.

Trouble is the SMTe has been discontinued of course, and Rain Bird's equivalent replacement that can be online, the ME3, is dumber. It's a simple when/how long/how often programmer. You can connect a supplemental rain sensor to it, but this is just an on/off accessory, not a measurement device like the SMTe. The rest of its "smarts" come from the usual local forecasts + RB's "seasonal adjust" feature. But that's surely not as effective as the local weather station used by the SMTe, and seasonal adjust won't really help you if the initial program you set up is watering too much or too little to begin with.

I've looked at the major RB competitors and it's a mix of pro and con vs. the SMTe as well.

Rachio -- I've seen screenshots of their app suggesting that you can give it similar detailed zone information as to the SMTe, which looks promising. But does it use that to derive the base schedule for the zone, or do you still have to start with when/how often/how long? Local sensor compatibility seems to be limited to nonexistent. They do have a bundle with a third party temperature and rain station, but it doesn't measure rainfall and looks like the sort of thing that won't last out in the elements for more than a year or two. And the Rachio has no physical controls so it is useless if the Rachio service is down or if they discontinue support for the current model.

Hunter -- People seem to like the Hydrawise system. Local sensor support seems pretty good, though I am not sure there is a rain measurement option vs simple on/off. Some of the controllers have on-panel controls for setup and operation. But it looks like you have to provide the base schedule? And it mostly appears to be local forecast-based, which again doesn't seem likely to be as accurate as hyperlocal readings from your house.

So I don't know. The SMTe was considered a professional product. If you're a pro, and you come across a customer who has one and wants to replace it with the most equivalent online thing, what would you recommend?

Penske Media Group owns most of the Hollywood trades, like Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone, and Variety. Of late, all those sites have managed to serve all their ad crap through my AdGuard defenses on all my devices.

I've actually bit a bit of a belt-and-suspenders things going, as I run AGH on a R-Pi for everything on my network, and AdGuard Mini as well on a couple of machines for localized blocking of elements on some specific websites.

Even if I activate every filter on the Mini machines, these Penske sites manage to get all their ads through both lines of defense. For AGH, I am running just the two basic blocklists maintained by the AdGuard Team, the DNS blocklist and the adaway blocklist. But these were fine originally. Now ads on e.g. hollywoodreporter.com just sail right on through.

Thoughts on how they are doing this, and what I can do about it?

Like many of us, I find the dance workouts impenetrable. I am coordinated enough for HIIT, kickboxing, and the rest, but absolutely cannot follow even the simplest dance routine.

For some reason, though, the special edition dance workouts, which usually feature a group of trainers, are more accessible to me. At least, I can do them and kind of have a good time instead of getting angry.

There's a new Bollywood-themed group dance workout this week, for International Dance Day on April 29. I usually try to get the limited edition badges, but I needed a few extra Move credits today to close that ring, so I did the special workout today instead of saving it for Wednesday.

Pretty fun! I estimate that I was only 70% hopeless at it compared to my usual 90% hopeless at dance. And I really do enjoy the group sessions.

Give it a try if you avoid dance like I do. You might like it.