[UPDATED] - Weather Switch - Turn on a switch in response to weather

bptworld · April 30, 2018, 9:18pm

Strange…everything seems to be working great here and I’m using 2.0.0 of the driver code. @Matthew and @DeveloperDavidB, maybe the station you are connecting to is having problems? If you want, try connecting to my station and see if the info is there. My personal station is KMADRACU9. Just put PWS:KMADRACU9 in the Zip Code box.

Matthew · April 30, 2018, 9:25pm

I changed the station to your’s and I am still not getting Weather_Summary? Are you sure your summary is updating? @DeveloperDavidB’s was listed, but not updaing. I am using version 2.0.0 too and I have it set to pull Fahrenheit, Miles & MPH for the summary.

DeveloperDavidB · April 30, 2018, 9:36pm

Im thinking it may have pulled that data before I switched to the new site a couple days ago. I would think using a new station would clear the old, but if there is no new data for a variable, maybe it just keeps its old value.

bptworld · April 30, 2018, 9:39pm

Here is what I'm seeing...

bptworld · April 30, 2018, 9:58pm

Just noticed that it auto updated...

Matthew · April 30, 2018, 10:04pm

I may have other problems. I cannot connect to my hub right now (Connection refused) and I am not at the house so I cannot power cycle it. It will have to wait until i get home this evening. I will re-copy in the most recent version of the driver code to make sure I didn’t mess that up somehow, then see if it reports Weather_Summary. I’ll report back.

Cobra · April 30, 2018, 10:16pm

Guys
I’m getting the summary ok
My station: PWS:IDURHAM16 if anyone wants to try it.

(Although I’m using a slightly different driver as I’m making a few additions to work with an irrigation app I'm thinking about)

Andy

Matthew · May 1, 2018, 12:55am

Power-cycled my hub. Re-copied the latest code version (2.0.0) and I am still not getting Weather_Summary? My station is pws:kcosuper7. I also tried PWS:IDURHAM16 and it did not show Weather_Summary for me??? My driver config is below.

Cobra · May 1, 2018, 1:14am

You should not have been able to save it without putting something in the ‘poll interval limit’
If you put something in there e.g 5 does it work then?

Andy

Matthew · May 1, 2018, 1:47am

I entered 5 into the pool interval limit, saved, forced polled. No change. I let it Auto update too. No change. Still no Weather_Summary??

Cobra · May 1, 2018, 1:56am

@Matthew

Silly question… have you checked the logs?
Have you hit the poll limit for today?
Is everything else updating?

Andy

Cobra · May 1, 2018, 1:59am

It’s 3 am here so I’ll have to get some sleep but I’ll probably release 2.1.0 tomorrow (few extras added) so if you are still having problems look for an update.
If you are still having problems after the update then please let me know

Andy

Matthew · May 1, 2018, 2:26am

I did look at the logs. I do not see any errors or other indications that there is a problem. I checked Wunderground API Analytics and I have plenty of polls remaining. Everything else does appear to be updating. I am stumped???

I will load your next update and see if that makes a difference. If not, I will remove it completely and then re-add it. I am not currently using Weather_Summary … but I was thinking about it. Everything else in the driver is working well.

Thanks.

Matthew · May 1, 2018, 3:45am

I have a question …instead of making two separate calls to WU, one for Conditions and Forecast and one for Alerts, is there a reason you cannot just make one call for all three? I changed line #131 to:

uri: "http://api.wunderground.com/api/${apiKey}/alerts/conditions/forecast/q/${pollLocation}.json"

(added ’ /alerts’ right after the ${apiKey}

I also commented out the params2 sections and changed the Alert call to Resp1 and it seems to work. This cuts the number of API calls made in half, so you can shorten your intervals without going over the 500 calls per day limit of the free plan.

Any reason this would not work … or something I am missing? Thanks.

My version is here (just for testing. Will need cleaned up if this is a valid approach.)

github.com

Scottma61/Hubitat/blob/master/WeatherUndergroundCustomLowerCase

/**
 *  WeatherUndergroundCustomLowerCase
 *
 *  Copyright 2018 mattw01
 *
 *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except
 *  in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed
 *  on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License
 *  for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
 *
 *  - Last Update 27/04/2018
 *
 *  V2.0.1  - Changed to one call to WU for Alerts, Conditions and Forecast - @Scottma61 04/30/2018
 *  V2.0.0  - Debug as 'humidity' was showing a double % sign in some dashboards - thanks to @Matthew for the fix! - @Cobra 27/04/2018 
 *  V1.9.0  - Added 'Chance_Of_Rain' an an attribute (also added to the summary) - Also added lowercase "percentPrecip" attribute - @Cobra 27/04/2018 
 *  V1.8.0  - Added 'stateChange' to some of the params that were not updating on poll - @Cobra 27/04/2018

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If that works we could also add to the call for WU’s ‘/astronomy’ which has the data elements of sunrise.hour, sunrise.minute, sunset.hour and sunset.minute. With that we could build Sunrise and Sunset times for the station. I saw someone requested that and I also saw some code from ST to build this fairly easily.

bangali · May 1, 2018, 4:48am

think the free version of api does not return /astronomy data.

here is a way to get sunrise and sunset data:

Cobra · May 1, 2018, 11:05am

@Matthew
Good call!
I have implimented this and cleaned up the code a bit
I’ve also added a resetable ‘Poll counter’ to keep an eye on things while testing
Added 3 attributes - Rain tomorrow & the day after and Station_State (& lowercase ‘state’)

@Matthew @bangali
Guys, I’m having trouble finding the time to maintain two versions of this driver now as I am working on other stuff.
I’m happy for you to take the lowercase driver from me if you wish (as this seems to be the one you are using) as I’m concentrating on some apps and the uppercase driver is developed enough for my use with Weather Switch and my expected use for my irrigation app I’m looking at.

GutHub has been updated with the latest version: 2.1.1

One thing to note:
If you still want this to work with Weather Switch then please let me know if you change the version number state variable
This needs to match what is in WS as it check for driver version

Andy

CAL.hub · May 1, 2018, 12:04pm

Thank you! It’s a beautiful thing. (I’ve just played with the driver so far.) I’ve been trying to get a rain forecast into ST for a couple of years and this finally does it. I still have my irrigation device on ST, so I’m in the position of using your code to throw a shared switch in Hubitat that will be used by ST for irrigation go/nogo. Until I can be more elegant.

Cobra · May 1, 2018, 12:20pm

@CAL.hub
I've started a new developement thread for the irrigation app so we can discuss requirements and how we are going to do things

Andy

Matthew · May 1, 2018, 1:29pm

The WU site says astronomy is provided. I will see if I can add this.

Matthew · May 1, 2018, 2:28pm

I added localSunrise and localSunset to this driver. I use this for some dashboards like SmartTiles. Now the weather tile in SmartTiles shows the Sunrise/Sunset time. It use to be 'null' for both. Still one call to WU API so no additional hits.

Thanks @Cobra for this great work.

github.com

Scottma61/Hubitat/blob/master/WUCustomDriver

/**
 *  WeatherUndergroundCustomLowerCase
 *
 *  Copyright 2018 mattw01
 *
 *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except
 *  in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed
 *  on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License
 *  for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
 *
 *  - Last Update 01/05/2018
 *
 *
 *  V2.1.2  - Added 'localSunrise' and 'localSunset' - @Scottma61 05/01/2018
 *  V2.1.1  - Added defaultValue to "pollIntervalLimit" to prevent errors on new installs
 *  V2.1.0  - Added 3 attributes - Rain tomorrow & the day after and Station_State (& lowercase 'state')- Also added poll counter and reset button @Cobra 01/05/2018

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