Weather/Temp from online source

bobbles · April 25, 2018, 7:22pm

With the old code, polling was done every 5 minutes and I could see Lux, SolarRadiation, Humidity etc. updating every 5 minutes.
When I loaded your code there was no polling every 5 minutes.
I filled in all the configurable fields. Polling was already populated with 5 so I left it alone.

Matthew · April 25, 2018, 7:27pm

I don't know what to say? It is working for me. Did you fill in the appropriate 'preferences' in the driver?

bobbles · April 25, 2018, 7:40pm

Yep. All filled in.
Will give it another try.

EDIT: Well I re-installed and now its working. Not sure what happened but as long as its working, that’s all that matters.
I like the extra features by the way. Nice one.

Matthew · April 26, 2018, 2:20am

Made a minor update to my version of the driver. For the three capabilities I added, I had to change to lower-case the attribute title (they were all in Title-Case). I added those capabilities so I could use them in HousePanel, but HousePanel did not pull in the values until I changed them to lower-case.

bobbles · April 26, 2018, 1:18pm

Just an update on the problem I saw yesterday when there was no polling.
It looks like it occasionally does not poll. It misses the 5 minute poll.
As you can see from the events for the device below, there was no poll at 1:55pm.

Cobra · April 26, 2018, 1:33pm

@bobbles
@Matthew

Guys
I've posted a new driver which includes all the correct attributes for use with dashboards if you want to try that
I have also added a 'Weather Summary' which I hope to use later in WS

Matthew · April 26, 2018, 2:14pm

Thanks @Cobra. I added in lowercase illuminance and humidity in my version. I need those in lowercase for Housepanel. No other changes. Great work!

UPDATE: @Cobra has incorporated my small change into his driver. No need for my version now. Please just use his. Thanks @Cobra!

github.com

Scottma61/Hubitat/blob/master/WeatherUndergroundCustomLowerCase

/**
 *  WeatherUndergroundCustom
 *
 *  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 26/04/2018
 *
 *  V1.7.1  - Added lowercase illuminance and humidity - @Scottma61 04/26/2018
 *  V1.7.0  - Added 'Weather Summary' as a summary of the data with some English in between - @Cobra  26/04/2018
 *  V1.6.0  - Added additional attributes and capabilities in lowercase for dashboard displays that use this - @Cobra  26/04/2018
 *  V1.5.0  - Added 'Station ID' so you can confirm you are using correct WU station - @Cobra 25/04/2018

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Cobra · April 26, 2018, 2:49pm

@Matthew
The illuminence and humidity should have been there already!
They are sent by the ‘capabilities’ and should already be in the lowercase format
Did I miss the ‘sendEvents’ for these?

Where did you add your code?

Andy

Cobra · April 26, 2018, 2:52pm

Hmm... seems it was working for me

Have a look at the screenshot in this post (at the bottom)

Cobra · April 26, 2018, 2:54pm

Hi…
just spotted illuminence wasn’t there in the screen shot… I will update my code

Andy

Matthew · April 26, 2018, 2:56pm

I did miss lowercase humidity (it was there in your code). However, the sendEvent for lowercase illuminance is not. If you want to add that, I have no other changes. Thanks! Appreciate your work.

Cobra · April 26, 2018, 3:06pm

@Matthew
I have added the sendEvent for illuminence and added a lowercase ‘city’ which someone else asked me about.

Now version: 1.7.2

Andy

Matthew · April 26, 2018, 3:25pm

Excellent. Thank you. No need for my version now.

Cobra · April 26, 2018, 4:36pm

FYI
Just uploaded version 1.8.0

Andy

bobbles · April 26, 2018, 7:11pm

Is anybody else finding that the data is not being updated every 5 minutes. Mine is occasionally missing an update.

Matthew · April 26, 2018, 7:18pm

I use 10 minutes and I have not noticed it missing any updates.

bobbles · April 26, 2018, 7:37pm

I have left it the default of 5. May extend and see what happens.

Cobra · April 27, 2018, 12:21pm

Guys
I have just uploaded Version: 1.9.0
This has a couple of bug fixes and now has a couple of new attributes ‘Chance of Rain’ & ‘percentPrecip’

Andy

Matthew · April 27, 2018, 4:48pm

I was not getting the Humidity (either upper or lower case) values to show in several dashboards (HousePanel and SmartTiles). Those dashboards show the humidity value as ‘null.’ In looking at examples that did work, it appeared that the humidity being reported by the driver was just the number and did not include the ‘%’ symbol. I altered the driver on lines 163 and 212 to the following:

sendEvent(name: "humidity", value: resp1.data.current_observation.relative_humidity.replaceFirst("%", "")) //, unit: "%")

That just removes the “%” symbol that is included in WeatherUnderground’s relative_humidity attribute. With that change my dashboards now are showing the humidity correctly.

I don’t know if this is unique to my use case or if it should be changed for other’s general use, but thought I would report on what I found.

Thanks.

Cobra · April 27, 2018, 5:07pm

@Matthew
Were you gettin a double % sign? (e.g. 60%%) or was it just not showing at all

Andy