With the DarkSky.net driver being deprecated, what is the recommended solution now? I do not have a person weather station.
You can use the built-in OpenWeatherMap driver to create a virtual device and then fill in the device settings with your personal free OpenWeatherMap key.
Is it expected the DarkSky driver will stop working at sometime in the near future?
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Our API service for existing customers is not changing today, but we will no longer accept new signups. The API will continue to function through the end of 2021.
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Thanks, good to know.
I just tried openweather, it shows that it pulling illuminance, but it doesn't populate in my rule. Is illuminance a variable that should be working?
I do not see illuminance being populated as an attribute of the built-in OpenWeatherMap driver.
I also do not see illuminance/lux being reported back from OpenWeatherMap
openweathermapResponse: [coord:[lon:-99.99, lat:99.99], weather:[[id:800, main:Clear, description:clear sky, icon:01d]], base:stations, main:[temp:66.74, feels_like:67.32, temp_min:62.6, temp_max:69.01, pressure:1024, humidity:88], visibility:10000, wind:[speed:6.93, deg:20], clouds:[all:1], dt:1603115879, sys:[type:1, id:4521, country:US, sunrise:1603106411, sunset:1603146730], timezone:-14400, id:0, name:SomeTown, cod:200]
Are you using a custom driver, by chance? If so, maybe a link to it?
Or maybe the data reported back is somehow region/location specific? Just a guess...
Perhaps you're using this driver, which makes an educated guess/calculation of illuminance...???
Personally, I use @iharyadi's awesome Environment sensor for most of my weather data. It is zigbee and provides temperature, humidity, pressure, and illuminance. I have one plugged in on my screen-porch. It works great!
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Using OpenWeatherMap-NWS Alerts Weather Driver. It is not a built in driver
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If using the openweathermap, you may have to enable illumanice to report in the device settings.
It does work, and I believe it is estimated based time of day, cloud cover, etc.
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FYI - I believe illuminance is only available in the community OWM driver, not the Hubitat built-in driver.
