I am trying to find a replacement weather data service for DarkSky. Created a virtual device using the OpenWeatherMap system driver but it's not showing an attribute for illuminance - is that correct? I don't want to get into PWS or other hardware solutions, is there a different driver or free weath…

You can try Wunderground. It shows lux... and a lot of other stuff.. [image] [image] [image]

OpenWeatherMap does have LUX but you need to turn it on in the "Optional Attributes". [image] Once on, save preferences and scroll back down to... [image] Save again and click Poll Data. You should find .... [image]

If it’s the one I’m thinking of there should be an illuminated attribute - may need to change a preference to get it.

[image] nclark: penWeatherMap does have LUX but you need to turn it on in the "Optional Attributes". Which device type driver are you using? I'm using the built-in one, but don't have those options under preferences.

Community driver, with calculated illumination (lux): [image] OpenWeatherMap-Alerts-Weather-Driver Custom Drivers OpenWeatherMap-Alerts Weather Driver <a name="update-12012020-you-now-can-choose-either-owm-or-weathergov-as-the-source-for-weather-alerts-weathergov-only-provides-alerts-for-the-united-states-while-owm-provides-global-weather-alerts-see-link-below-1" class="anchor" href="#update-12012020-you-now-can-choose-either-owm-or-weathergov-as-the-source-for-weather-alerts-weathergov-only-provides-alerts-for-the-united-states-while-owm-provides-global-weather-alerts-see-link-below-1"> UPDATE - 12/01/2020: You now can choose either OWM or weather.gov as the source for Weather Alerts. weather…

Thanks for the suggestion, I was using the stock OpenWeatherMap driver, so I switched to the custom OpenWeatherMap-Alerts-Weather-Driver, toggled the optional attributes on, saved everthing, clicked Poll Data repeatedly but still only the old attributes (those provided with the stock driver) are sho…

Delete and recreate the device with the new driver.

Deleted and re-created the device with the new driver, then copy/pasted the API key from openweathermap.org . Tried to poll data/refresh, got nothing. Turned on extended logging, getting this error: OpenWeatherMap.org Weather Driver - WARNING: 401:Unauthorized I verified that the API key is correct…

If you just got the key, it's a v3 key. There's a v2.5/v3 toggle in the settings. [image]

Replacement for DarkSky, need Lux

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bill.d February 12, 2023, 3:58pm 7

Community driver, with calculated illumination (lux):