Hi, I'm totally a noob and need help so let me know if here is the wrong place to ask. I'm just trying to see my local temperature in Hubitat using OpenWeatherMap and then I will try to actually do things with that. What steps I've taken so far:
Created virtual OWM device by going to + Add device, type=virtual, selecting OpenWeatherMap, no room
Signed up on https://home.openweathermap.org/ and generated an API key, copied it to the preferences for the new device (It's a 32 character string of numbers and letters)
Tried my zip code, country code of "United States", country code of "United%20States", latitude, longitude with different decimal places, setting weather polling interval, setting default current state, and a bunch of permutations of some of these without the other
Enabled all logging, refreshed, and checked logs over and over
Waited days to see if my API key needed to activate
It still says "undefined° F" in Home when I check devices, and I don't see any data anywhere. In the log it says "OpenWeatherMap - getWeather() execption java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in query at index 61: https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?..." followed by my API key, longitude and latitude. I have gotten different variations of this error at index 62 and 64 as well.
Now, I see in your log entry it is hitting the 2.5 API from openweathermap. Have you tried the 3.0? I have had problems in the past where it took a while for the API key to take a while to activate, but that would show up with a different error, not a Java error.
RNoia - are you saying that instead of the built-in OWM device, you use one you got on HPM? I installed HPM for something else, so that isn't out of the question, but I am trying to use the built-in one right now.
How do I switch from the 2.5 API to the 3.0? Is that because my OWM account is old and I am just using an old active key? I tried generating a new key just now, maybe that will be a 3.0 key?
I use OpenWeatherMap too and for that Preferences page, I ONLY entered the Key. It's got the red * indicating it's required, nothing else is.
Lat and Long are pulled from your Hub's Details page (Settings: Hub Details) as is C vs F
I'd suggest discarding that virtual and create another. Paste in only the API Key. It's alphaNumeric (hex) meaning 0-9 plus a-f. Make sure you don't have any leading or trailing spaces.
Right click on Logs and open a new browser tab. Then go to the commands tab and click Refresh. Look at what the logs say this time around.
In the OpenWeatherMap - alert driver, there is a toggle field to use which version of the API. I am very happy with the "alert" driver from HPM as it has tons of features and attributes you can use and play with for automations.
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