FYI Apple buys dark sky

Awesome on the alerts via NOAA. Living in South Florida, alerts is the single most important feature I use of the weather plugins.

And yes, I did enter my cc info in OpenWeather and got the One Call API with alerts, but they are unruly. Also, not concerned about costs, as I don't expect to ever exceed the 1000 per day limit. OpenWeather is only used for the forecast in irrigation triggers. All the actual weather info is provided by a Davis weather station on the roof. The weather is PARTICULARLY important in South Florida.

JP

I get it for sure. We live in tornado alley here. While our alerts might be fewer and farther between, you really don't want to miss any.

Awesome on the alerts via NOAA. Living in South Florida, alerts is the single most important feature I use of the weather plugins.

And yes, I did enter my cc info in OpenWeather and got the One Call API with alerts, but they are unruly. Also, not concerned about costs, as I don't expect to ever exceed the 1000 per day limit. OpenWeather is only used for the forecast in irrigation triggers. All the actual weather info is provided by a Davis weather station on the roof. The weather is PARTICULARLY important in South Florida.

JP

Hi, how do you parse the forecast page? I only need a daily forecast to use for irrigation.
I have just stated using OpenWeather and through lots of trial and error I'm able to extract current weather but the forecast page looks a lot more complicated.

Thanks in advance

My suggestion would be to use the GhostXML plugin. It will assign each data point to an individual device state. I would recommend using the Open Weather "One Call" API which gets everything at once. Set the device to Real Type and configure it for a JSON payload.

Use this URL -- replace `my_lat`, `my_long` and `my_api_key` with your information (and any other parameters you want to include):
https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/onecall?lat=my_lat&lon=my_long&units=imperial&APPID=my_api_key

Once the device has downloaded the data, look for a device state that starts with "daily_X_". For example, `daily_1_temp_max` would be the maximum temperature for tomorrow (daily_0 is the current day's forecast).

Let me know if you need more help. Good luck!

Thanks.
When I use onecall I get a message of "Invalid API key". I have to use either weather or forecast.
I have to look into this when I have time.

Make sure you're using API v2.5 -- IIRC, I wasn't able to get the one call API to work with v3.0.

Hi, the problem is that I had to be subscribed to the "One Call by Call" plan.
Finally got GhostXML going, now the problem is that there is no item for daily_0_rain, only daily_1_rain, daily_4_rain and daily_5_rain. No daily_6_rain or daily_7_rain but that doesn't matter I only need daily_0_rain.
Any ideas?

TIA

Hmmm. I can't explain that. My API key is working for the v2.5 API. I don't think I have any kind of special plan and I definitely don't have a subscription.

Hey, maybe I signed up for this plan:

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Hmmm. I can't explain that. My API key is working for the v2.5 API.

Hmmm, thanks! That gave me an idea, when I subscribed it seemed like API 3.0 was the only one available, since you mentioned v2.5 I just change 3.0 to 2.5 in the URL and its works now! Thanks.

Good deal. Thanks for reporting back.