Open weather app bug - cloudiness

[HomeAlone]

Hi,

I’m trying to use cloudiness output to control shades however it seems the output for cloudiness is a string not and integer so that means I can’t use “>” or “<“ comparators for integers. The cloudiness variable only spits out numbers so this seems to be a bug. Can this be fixed?

[marktheknife]

@HomeAlone

the output for cloudiness is a string not and integer so that means I can’t use “>” or “<“ comparators for integers

I can replicate this in Rule Machine.

@bobbyD

[chrisbvt]

@HomeAlone

cloudiness is a string not and integer so that means I can’t use “>” or “<“ comparators for integers.

Just create a number variable and use set variable to assign the string value to it. It will do the conversion when it sets the number variable. Then use that variable for your comparisons.

[marktheknife]

Wouldn’t it make more sense for an attribute consisting of numbers to be treated as an integer rather than a string?

[danabw]

The work-around is good, but agree that it makes sense that...

@marktheknife

an attribute consisting of numbers to be treated as an integer rather than a string.

And then people won't run into this issue and have to use a work-around.

[bertabcd1234]

Not sure why this attribute was specified as a string, but from what I can see in their API docs, it should be a percent, which I assume would always be numeric. This will be changed in the next platform release, currently in beta.