Instruction on adding Weather Devices

[Lakecrest]

@rlithgow1

are attributes showing up there?

All of the option are shown below, but the "Current Status" at the top is just showing the 72 temperature

[rlithgow1]

Reset your hub for DHCP and see if it works... (Reboot after resetting it to dhcp)

[aaiyar]

@Lakecrest

THe speed test and issue prior to me resetting the hub, but now seem ok.

Did that resolve your Alexa issue? If it did not, follow @rlithgow1's suggestion to redo the DHCP reset.

If the Alexa issue is resolved, then use the community openweathermap driver instead of the built-in one.

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…

[rlithgow1]

Does your device page look like this?

[Lakecrest]

This what mine looks like:

[Matthew]

@Lakecrest See this post ...

[rlithgow1]

Use the built in openweathermap driver and then click refresh... (make sure you fill out your api key field) and see if it works. Mine above is the built in driver.

[Lakecrest]

I did find the built-in weather driver and found that the defaulted country code (United States) was incorrect. After deleting that and refreshing, I was able to get the built-in weather driver to work. Yeah!

When I look at the available attributes, I find it's a bit lacking... Unless I'm doing something wrong (likely) I don't see forecasting or icons (just codes).

The community weather driver looks like it might be able to give me what I want, but It is still just showing the temperature.

[aaiyar]

@Lakecrest

but It is still just showing the temperature.

Did you read @Matthew's post? He is the author of the community driver.

[rlithgow1]

You can go with the wunderground driver,. These are the available attributes for that

[aaiyar]

@rlithgow1

You can go with the wunderground driver

Does that driver require an API key and a PWS on WUnderground?

[rlithgow1]

just the api key, the pws is optional

[Lakecrest]

The PWS in mine is stating I need to fill it in. Is there a genric one I can enter?

[Lakecrest]

Also are there requirements on the API key as stated for the open weather driver?

[aaiyar]

@rlithgow1

the pws is optional

I think that has changed.

See:

Instruction on adding Weather Devices

Yes you do.

[aaiyar]

@Lakecrest

are there requirements on the API key as stated for the open weather driver?

There are specific API key requirements as indicated by @Matthew for his community OpenWeatherMap driver. These requirements do not exist for the built-in driver.

[Lakecrest]

@aaiyar

@Lakecrest

ere requirements on the API key as stated for the open weather driver?

There are specific API key requirements as indicated by @Matthew for his community OpenWeatherMap driver. These requirements do not exist for the built-in driver.

Wow I seem to be going in circles. So to recap:

• Weather underground requires a PWS
• OpenWeatherMap-Alerts Weather Driver requires a paid subscription for an API key is needed
• Open Weather built-in weather app has only basic weather info

I guess the weather tile is but on hold for now.... Time to jump over to my other string on how to get my zigbee outlet to work.

[aaiyar]

@Lakecrest

Wow I seem to be going in circles. So to recap:

• Weather underground requires a PWS
• OpenWeatherMap-Alerts Weather Driver requires a paid subscription for an API key is needed
• Open Weather built-in weather app has only basic weather info

There are other weather integrations from @Matthew. Perhaps one of them provides the information you want for free.

But in general, weather information is moving toward a paid model. Many of us run a PWS that integrates with Hubitat.

[dJOS]

Some folk have been able to setup a fake Netatmo PWS to get an API key. It seems a little hit and miss tho.