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Sun Mar 08, 2015 3:58 pm
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DaveL17
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WUnderground v0.8.0 is now available.
- New! Satellite Image Downloader.
- New! Ten Day Forecasts.
- New! Day/Night icon names for Hourly Forecast Devices.
- New! Wind speed and wind direction for Hourly Forecast Devices.
- More logical labeling of device status in Indigo UI (for example, when server can't be reached, leave disabled devices marked as "Disabled.")
- Strips trailing carriage returns from weather alert message (cuts down on log space used.)
- Eliminates (erroneously created forecast states [5-7] for some Weather Device states.)
- Standardizes Trigger and Control Page labels across all device types.
Code enhancements including:
-- Eliminates the convStr() method.
-- Changes fixPrecipitation() method into fixCorruptedData() method to allow for additional fields to be accounted for. We'll start with wind speed and wind direction (values -999.0 and -9999.0 will now be captured.)
-- Better handling of instances where Weather Underground provides data that is not in the expected format (i.e., when it provides the string "NA" instead of a number.)
-- Enhanced code labeling and documentation.
Satellite Image Downloader: this is a new device type. Enter a URL and local folder into the settings box and the device will reach out to the Internet and pull down the image of your choice. There are several uses for this type of device. One example: by linking a control page image to a local cached image, you will still have an image to display if the WAN should go away. This will only work with images of type: .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .png.
Ten Day Forecasts: This is a new device type. Just like it sounds. Provides daily forecast information for the next 10 days. If you were using days 5-7 within the Weather device, these values have gone away. You should now use the new 10 day weather forecast device type. For wind speed, we have a setting for average speed or maximum speed. We also have direction available as either text or as degrees.
Day/Night icon names for Hourly Forecast Devices: Just like it sounds. Should you choose, you can now associate day and night weather icons with hourly device states.
Wind speed and wind direction for Hourly Forecast Devices: Wind speed and direction values have now been included in the Hourly Forecast Device states. You can choose to display direction as text or as degrees. See the device settings.
This is a huge update. That is to say, there is likely something that snuck by me. as always, if there's something that isn't quite right, please let me know.
We now have a lot of potential devices hammering away at the maximum number of API calls. I will be rolling out a completely different plugin data engine which will limit calls to one per location no matter how many devices have been created for that location (the location information will need to match exactly--in other words, IL/Chicago will not be the same as US ZIP 60601.) This isn't yet ready for prime time, but will be coming soon.
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