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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!

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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:
 *
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 *  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

Matthew · April 27, 2018, 5:12pm

They both just showed ‘%’ with no number. Those dashboards (HousePanel and SmartTiles) apparently need just the number and they add their own ‘%’ symbol as they both show correctly now (a number with a single ‘%’ at the end) after I removed the ‘%’ from the driver result.

Cobra · April 27, 2018, 5:14pm

@Matthew
Good find- thanks for that
I have the same issue with this on another thread.
I’ll make the same change to the lowercase setting (I use the uppercase one as my app does not add the %

Thanks again

Andy

patrick · April 27, 2018, 7:41pm

Yes, the way it is supposed to work is the value should be a number and then a separate “units” setting for “F” or “C” or “%” would get passed to the device event state

That way when retrieving the attribute, you get {value:“58”, unit: “%”}

but most just put the unit in the value… Or override the unit (or ignore it)

bobbles · April 30, 2018, 10:51am

I have realised that I can store Illuminance into a variable which means I do not have to define lots of Virtual switches for light levels.
Here is a piston I use to do it.

jrau272 · July 4, 2018, 11:06am

is there a way to get the actual high and low temps since midnight, rather than just the forecasted high and low?

SmartHomePrimer · July 29, 2018, 6:41pm

@bravenel - Any discussions about RM custom commands from weather drivers? For example, I can user @Cobra 's Weather Switch app to pull from a weather driver to trigger a virtual switch, to then trigger a RM rule for TTS to get the condition, but very restrictive and a lot of components for that one action. If we could create Custom Commands to poll any weather driver, and then use the result for TTS or notifications, it would really simplify things.