Prometheus exporter for an Ambient Weather station as reported from their API

This little project is a messy hack, but it works against my WS-2902 which I've had for just a few weeks at the time I'm writing this. It may not work well for stations which ship less metrics to Ambient Weather.

Almost all of this code is just binding together two things:

• ambient_api - a Python library which interfaces with the Ambient Weather API
• prometheus/client_python - lets me register a series of metrics and runs a simple web server exposing the data read from Ambient as Prometheus metrics.

I use Docker to run this "in production" so there's a Dockerfile too, and [](builds on Docker Hub).

You came for a graph, so here's one where you can clearly see that my weather station is not mounted properly (the wind is always coming from ~270 degrees?)

• Get an API key from Ambient Weather.
• Use my Application Key (67a05cffa31946ad9f15ffbc0cbecdcf2e933d488eaa49ef84c8d40f566a0bcb) from Ambient below
• Run it with Docker

docker run -d --restart=unless-stopped  -e AMBIENT_API_KEY=yourkey -e AMBIENT_APPLICATION_KEY=67a05cffa31946ad9f15ffbc0cbecdcf2e933d488eaa49ef84c8d40f566a0bcb -p 8000:8000 trickv/ambient-weather-exporter:latest

Then configure Prom to scrape it every 60 seconds.

Ideally, I'd rather get this data directly from the base station which sits in my house so that I'm not beholden to Ambient Weather's infrastructure. But I haven't found a way to do that.