Ambient Weather Device

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My son decided to throw this together REAL quick, but wanted me to share it. I have an Ambient Weather Station and my son implemented an Integration. Note: this DOES require an API key (which I was able to acquire HERE). Also note, right now, this only supports temperature and humidity. My son plans to expand assuming homework doesn't overwhelm him.

Ambient Weather App and Device

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Thanks. I’ll give this a try later. Love my Ambient Weather Falcon

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Hi Thomas
It’s always interesting to see how things connect.
As a matter of interest, ‘tiles’ are not used in Hubitat device drivers (as apposed to ST DTH) so that section can be removed from the driver
Your son may find a couple of the existing weather drivers interesting and useful in his quest to expand this app/driver.

@Matthew created this one:

And I’ve done a couple:

https://github.com/CobraVmax/Hubitat/tree/master/Drivers/Weather

Andy

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Very cool. Have requested another key and will let you know how it works. I'm really interested in this project. If this could let me bypass Weewx and still use @Cobra's weather switch somehow, that would be ideal. Really what I've wanted all along so I could still use the Ambient Weather dashboard which I really like.

Cloud based, but so far their service has been very reliable.

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Providing the driver presents the correct attributes, for example: temperature, humidity etc then you should still be able to use weather switch just the same.

Andy

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I’m also watching this one closely. I’d love to not rely on WU as they are have closed the API to new users, and may shut the whole thing down.

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Can't authorize app. Oauth is enabled, but I think it's not needed. Tried with and without. I get the following error when I enter my API key and a new app key that was just sent to me.

Error

There was an error authorizing you. Please try again.

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Just loaded this in HE. Works great for temp and humidity. Any chance there will be others added like wind, rain, light level, barometric, etc. thanks

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In addition to adding the other child devices could you possibly add a conversion from degrees to wind direction by name?
Here is how it might break down:

337.5 to 22.5 = North
22.5 to 67.5 = Northeast
67.5 to 112.5 = East
112.5 to 157.5 = Southeast
157.5 to 202.5 = South
202.5 to 247.5 = Southwest
247.5 to 292.5 = West
292.5 to 337.5 = Northwest

Thanks

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Any chance this can be added on to, such as lux, rainfall, windspeed, etc. maybe even indoor conditions. This works great on my Ambient Weather WS-2902? I'm completely code illiterate but was able to get this to work, great job!

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I have been poking at this today. I have the wind, wind gust, illuminance, Wind Direction, etc done. It is not presenting on the dashboard. Does anyone have a list of correct attribute names for weather?

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Here are the attribute I have implemented. Are they the correct names?

Current States

  • comfort : 0.0
  • dewPoint : 24.99
  • feelsLike : 43.9
  • humidity : 47
  • precip_1hr : 0
  • precip_today : 0.07
  • pressure : 29.52
  • temperature : 43.9
  • wind : 2.5
  • wind_degree : 164
  • wind_dir : S
  • wind_direction : South
  • wind_gust : 4.9
  • solarradiation : 26.14
  • uv : 1
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I'm getting this error in my logs?

ambient%20weather%20log
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I have updated the GITHUB master branch (see first post) with the following:

  • Moved all processing to the child device
  • Now support the following measurements: temperature, humidity, dew point, pressure, feels-like (temperature), wind speed, wind direction, wind direction (degrees), wind gust, comfort (0 = dry, 100 = wet and sticky), precipitation (today), precipitation (last hour).

I would recommend manually deleting the previous device and app before installing the new one.

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I am getting the folowing error when I try to save as a new app.
Metadata Error:Please check if you inadvertently pasted driver code into apps code window on line 1

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Thanks. You are correct, I messed up the upload. It should be fixed now

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Just curious if it should Auto Refresh at the interval that is set or do I need a rule to Refresh the Device? It downloads all the information from Weather station so that works great..

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Working great. Thanks

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It should auto-refresh

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Weird.. Mine does seem to auto refresh. I have to click the Refresh in the Device..

Maybe I'll uninstall and reinstall.