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[aaiyar]

@user1047

We had a big storm yesterday and I was wishing the outside lights had come on during the worst of it.

A good reason indeed!

@user1047

So, I’d love to find an easy API source for LUX in my area—any suggestions?

OpenWeatherMap is pretty decent. While there is a built-in integration for it, I would recommend this community integration:

OpenWeatherMap-Alerts-Weather-Driver

OpenWeatherMap-Alerts Weather Driver UPDATE - 12/01/2020: You now can choose either OWM or weather.gov as the source for Weather Alerts. weather.gov only provides alerts for the United States while OWM provides global weather alerts (see link below). UPDATE - 10/20/2020: OpenWeatherMap now provides global weather alerts. As of version V0.2.8 this driver uses OWM for all of it's data and no longer polls weather.gov (NWS) for weather alerts. This means that weather alerts are available from…