No, I was using another source to reference that.
Stupid question, where does its how under the darksky website?
I don't know where it does, or if it does? I don't regularly go to their website since I use the data from their API. The probability of precipitation comes from their 'Daily' forecast ('daily.data[0].precipProbability' in their API for the current day; data[1] for tomorrow; data[2] for day after tomorrow). The API documentation is here if you would like to investigate how they determine these values.
Oh okay that makes sense.
That percentage of percipation is actually 3 days added together then?
That is incorrect. Each day is it's own value as determined by DarkSky. The API documentation is here if you would like to investigate how they determine these values.
Anyone having issues with DarkSky's illuminance data? For the past few days, it has been at 5 all day long, even on bright sunny days. I'm getting all of the other data in from DarkSky accurately, but not illuminance for some reason. I use this as a condition to a motion lighting rule and so if I can't get it to work, are there any other localized options for illuminance data beyond buying a motion sensor with a built in illuminance sensing?
Mine is updating:
No other reports of issues from others. Just the usual suggestions to try: Open virtual driver and click 'Save preferences'; Clear browser cache; reboot hub.
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Is there anyway to get a summary of what the weather alert is? I get a lot of special weather statements alerts. It would be nice to pull that statement info down.
Yes. See this post for that feature. Click on the red weather alert letters in either the myTile or the alertTile. That is a hyperlink to more detailed information.
Sorry I meant to include in the notification. In TTS or a pushover message.
Thanks for the suggestions. Your plugin is the only one that pulls for Canada.
More simply, how can I tell if there is precipitation currently? Seems like I could use RM4 to check if Condition_Text contains Rain, Drizzle, Sleet or Snow. But is there a more elegant way?
You can access the weatherSummary attribute and send it to TTS & /or notification. I do this to receive notifications of the weather forecast twice a day as a notification to my phone and on demand by voice to a Google Mini.
It does not.
You see any reason I couldn’t approximate one by evaluating condition_text if it contains rain, drizzle, sleet or snow?
@mluck Just wondering why are you putting any effort into using the DarkSky driver when DarkSky is pulling the plug on August 1, 2020?
Suggest using @Matthew 's excellent Open Weather driver
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A rule like @craigspree's above should work to be true to the what the driver says Dark Sky is reporting. Just remember that 1) is it a forecast, that is not always accurate to your locations actual conditions. Some areas have more station density reporting to Dark Sky so they are more accurate than areas that have fewer stations reporting. And 2) the frequency you are polling Dark Sky. The conditions only update at the frequency you set in the driver. A rule like this will appear to perform better with more frequent intervals.
Good luck.
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Dark Sky is discontinuing the Android App on August 1, 2020. The IOS App should still function after that and the API (That this driver uses) will continue to work 'until the end of 2021'. Given that, this driver should function until the end of 2021, or whenever they do shutdown the Dark Sky API.
