Sun level or UV index?

[Dodgeboy]

I used to use my personal weather station to determine UV index, but it died a couple months ago and I'm looking for a new source for this data. I have a rule that needs the current UV index (or amount of sun) in order to function properly. Is there a way to get this from a weather service or something?

[aaiyar]

I don't use it, but I think @Matthew's OpenWeatherMap driver will give you the UV Index for your location. You will have to get a (free) OpenWeatherMap API key.

Here's the driver:

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…

[Dodgeboy]

Thanks! That worked perfectly. I had an older OWM driver on my hub that didn't include UV index. I didn't realize someone had improved it at some point.