Apixu.com worldwide weather data with outside lux. No PWS or server setup

SmartHomePrimer · August 18, 2018, 7:28am

No R•E•S•P•E•C•T
They don't even mention the late queen of soul.

bangali · August 18, 2018, 8:07am

it’s strange ... they have lots of content of her ... guess no biography.

josh · August 18, 2018, 12:40pm

Don't forget that you can also override the label shown in the top-left corner by using the tile customization features in SharpTools.

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Not sure why the mouse cursor didn't track in the GIF, but when you are in edit mode for a dashboard, click the ... overflow menu on a tile and choose Edit. From there you can customize things like the Dimensions, Label, and Color (and other tiles let you customize their Icon).

SmartHomePrimer · August 18, 2018, 1:34pm

Thanks! Great way to show an example too.

bangali · August 18, 2018, 4:38pm

since not everyone will have tools to override the city name added an option to override city name in settings:

marktheknife · August 18, 2018, 5:52pm

hmm, something has gone wrong with the driver since I updated to the most recent version. The driver has been unable to refresh since I updated the code. This is what I see in the logs when I click the poll button on the driver settings page.

Edit: sorry never mind. I realized the issue was that I had a space between lat and long coordinates. removing the space between the "," and the "-" seems to have restored everything. Of course I figured that out right after posting here .

bangali · August 18, 2018, 6:03pm

happens. i just setup a room with the same coordinates and all worked fine … so was scratching my head here.

SmartHomePrimer · August 19, 2018, 3:03am

Thanks
That repo coming soon? So much easier to select RAW and copy all

bangali · August 19, 2018, 4:03am

github.com

adey/bangali/blob/master/driver/apixu-weather.groovy

/***********************************************************************************************************************
*  Copyright 2018 bangali
*
*  Contributors:
*       https://github.com/jebbett      code for new weather icons based on weather condition data.
*       https://www.deviantart.com/vclouds/art/VClouds-Weather-Icons-179152045     new weather icons courtesy of VClouds
*
*  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except
*  in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
*
*      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
*  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed
*  on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License
*  for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
*
*  ApiXU Weather Driver
*
*  Author: bangali
*

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SmartHomePrimer · August 19, 2018, 4:07am

Thank you! A gentleman and scholar you are.

bangali · August 19, 2018, 4:09am

you are welcome. strive to be a gentleman.

rmorgan · September 7, 2018, 8:14pm

I must be doing something wrong. I've successfully added the driver, received my APIXU key and created new virtual device. It retrieved data the first time but doesn't seem to be retrieving data every 10 minutes based on the settings. Any clue what I've done wrong?

Matthew · September 7, 2018, 8:17pm

The location appears to be a WeatherUnderground PWS identifier. APIXU would not be able to report on that. Try a zip code or LON,LAT.

bangali · September 7, 2018, 8:20pm

here are the possible values for location:

* Latitude and Longitude (Decimal degree) e.g: q=48.8567,2.3508
* city name e.g.: q=Paris
* US zip e.g.: q=10001
* UK postcode e.g: q=SW1
* Canada postal code e.g: q=G2J
* metar:&lt;metar code&gt; e.g: q=metar:EGLL
* iata:&lt;3 digit airport code&gt; e.g: q=iata:DXB
* auto:ip IP lookup e.g: q=auto:ip
* IP address (IPv4 and IPv6 supported) e.g: q=100.0.0.1

you dont need to specify the q= part … the app will add that.

see this page:

https://www.apixu.com/doc/request.aspx

rmorgan · September 7, 2018, 8:34pm

Thanks! That's working. The WU station I spec'd provides much more accurate info. The generic zip code data appears to be for a weather station about 1,000' lower and on the other side of the mountain.

bangali · September 7, 2018, 8:36pm

sure. try lat,long?

rmorgan · September 7, 2018, 8:48pm

I did. It gives the same data as zip code and city,state. APIXU probably doesn't get data from this WU station.

bangali · September 7, 2018, 8:49pm

ok. likely not. may be there are WU drivers out there that you could use?

buckchucko · October 6, 2018, 1:53pm

How are you getting all your dashboard tiles to show all those weather data? I just installed V 4.0.0, I have my API, created a device, and made a new dashboard. My logs are fine, all this great weather data is coming in with no errors.
When I add a tile to my dashboard, I select weather as the device, but under template I only have a few choices. i.e temp, humidity.
So how you actually making your dashboard pages? Sorry, but I am rather new to Hubitat.

bjcowles · October 6, 2018, 2:14pm

Select the weather device and then select attribute and type in the attribute as it appears on your device page and save the tile.