Wow, thanks to the great community and @tslagle13 for the device type and scheduler. Got my free BloomSky this week and in the course of only about an hour got it paired to my guest wifi network and installed outside on the roof.
One thing that I’ve seen mentioned briefly is that the BloomSky device also works with weather underground, and I have also gotten it providing data to my “Personal Weatherstation” including uploading the sky camera shots to the WU webcam feature.
Basically, if you don’t have an account yet, go to www.wunderground.com and create an account. Then go to the page to register a new personal weather station (PWS): http://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/
Once you’ve registered a station, they will give you a “station ID”. You can also go to the webcam page http://www.wunderground.com/webcams/signup.html and setup a webcam, choosing “FTP” as the type, which will create and give you a camera-ID, which you’ll also need.
The next step didn’t work immediately- it took about an hour or so before my FTP account for uploading of webcam images was created on the weatherunderground FTP server (webcam.wunderground.com). You can use FTP software to login on that site with the Camera-ID as the username and password is your weather underground password, and once your account is active and you can connect, you can go on to the next step.
The last step is to go to the bloomsky website http://bloomsky.com/wun and login with your bloomsky account first, then add the WU station-ID and camera-ID and your WU password in the associated fields, choose your bloomsky device in the dropdown menu and choose the button at the bottom to submit or register. If you get an error message that it didn’t work they probably haven’t created your FTP account on the WU webcam server yet. Check to make sure that you can login separately, or just wait and try again.
After 5-10 minutes, I could see that both my weather and camera were updating on my weather underground page!
-Nate