Weather Underground Plugin

Hi Bleasel - Are you looking for the WUnderstation plugin to track yesterday's precipitation? WU's WUnderstation API doesn't have a field for yesterday's precip.

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rainin - [rain inches over the past hour)] -- the accumulated rainfall in the past 60 min
dailyrainin - [rain inches so far today in local time]


I'd like to keep the plugin API-specific, so I think you have a couple options. If you're using the WUnderstation plugin together with the WUnderground plugin, you can pull yesterday's precip from WUnderground.

You could also create a variable and a couple triggers to track it. Create your variable and then create a trigger to update the variable any time your precip value is greater than the variable value (to get the highest number for the day), then create another trigger to zero out the variable value when it's a new day (say, at 00:00:01, or something like that). You could also do it with a simple Python script which I'd be happy to help you gin up.

If WU ever adds yesterday's precip to the API, I'd be happy to include it.

[Moderator's Note] Moved to the proper thread.

Thanks

I was looking here: https://www.wunderground.com/weather/ap ... erday&MR=1

Didn't notice that these are different plugins. The request is for the Weather underground plugin.

[Moderator's Note] Moved to the proper thread.

Thanks

I was looking here: https://www.wunderground.com/weather/ap ... erday&MR=1

Didn't notice that these are different plugins. The request is for the Weather underground plugin.

Thanks for clarifying. The WUnderground plugin has a device state in the WUnderground Weather Device type that tracks yesterday's precipitation. Look for the device state called 'historyPop'. In the control page and trigger menus (etc.), it's called "History - Precipitation". I'll admit that this could be more aptly named and I'll change in the next update.

Please let me know if that will work for you or if you need something else.
Dave

(I moved our posts to the proper forum.)

Thanks for that.

I did look at all the custom state values (when it was raining) and tried to match the value on WU with the custom states. It matched Precipitation today, and Precipitation - I hr, but did not match for yesterday ( I looked at 3 stations nearby that were recording rainfall). Unfortunately it has stopped raining, so all values are now "0".

But it is what I was after. I have now incorporated it in the trigger menus.

Thanks for that.

I did look at all the custom state values (when it was raining) and tried to match the value on WU with the custom states. It matched Precipitation today, and Precipitation - I hr, but did not match for yesterday ( I looked at 3 stations nearby that were recording rainfall). Unfortunately it has stopped raining, so all values are now "0".

But it is what I was after. I have now incorporated it in the trigger menus.

Great, thanks for letting me know. In case you're curious, I'm pulling from the history API using yesterday's date. If the value isn't right, I can do some more digging. It could be a problem with my code, or with WU's API.

Please let me know if you see something hinky.
Dave

Will do. I have created a variable, so I can track whether data is going to that custom state.

Update.

It is now raining and the state historypop is going up equally with precipitation_today. They were both zero two hrs ago. It is 6pm here. It did not rain yesterday.


Using station INEWSOUT349

Update.

It is now raining and the state historypop is going up equally with precipitation_today. They were both zero two hrs ago. It is 6pm here. It did not rain yesterday.


Using station INEWSOUT349

Confirmed. I'm using the following URL for your station:

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http://api.wunderground.com/api/API_KEY/geolookup/alerts_v11/almanac_v11/astronomy_v11/conditions_v11/forecast_v11/forecast10day_v11/hourly_v11/lang:EN/history_v11_20170320/tide_v11/q/pws:INEWSOUT349.json

For history precip, I'm using: ['history']['dailysummary'][0]['precipm'] (24.4mm)
For today's precip, I'm using: ['current_observation']['precip_today_metric'] (24mm)

Either I've misunderstood the API (quite possible), WU is sending the wrong data via the API (quite possible) or WU has changed the API and didn't tell anyone (also quite possible). I've seen behavior that I expect for the sites that I monitor, but that doesn't mean that something's not wrong. Let me do some more research and get back to you.

Looking at the link I sent a few posts ago: History returns a specified date's data. Could be that that date defaults to today. Whereas use of "yesterday" returns yesterday's data.

Looking at the link I sent a few posts ago: History returns a specified date's data. Could be that that date defaults to today. Whereas use of "yesterday" returns yesterday's data.

I pulled the code that generates the history date we're calling and it properly comes up with yesterday's date. I'm going to look at converting that part of the code to the Yesterday API and then I won't have to worry about sending the wrong date anymore. It shouldn't be too heavy of a lift.

Okay, did deeper research on this and my findings agree with yours.

• History - returns data related to the specified date. Could be any date.
• Yesterday - returns exactly the same fields as history, but just for yesterday (no date specified).

Both include a daily summary so it won't take any refactoring of the parsing code to make this work (which is nice). I'll work on updating the the URL used to get the data in the first place. Then, any hinkiness will be on WU.

Thanks.

Thanks again, the update is displaying yesterday's rainfall correctly.

Excellent. Thanks for reporting back. I'm still at a loss why the history code was working correctly for me and incorrectly for you.

Am I missing a new location for downloads? I've re-downloaded it twice now, and I'm getting 1. 004 while the plugin tells me 1.0013 is available.