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  • RobinVanKekemRobinVanKekem Member
    All those data are from Weather Underground.
    Can you check on the website of WU what kind of data you got there?
  • RobinVanKekemRobinVanKekem Member
    You can also try to set a nearby larger City
  • WathLamersWathLamers Member
    perhaps a station whitout a windspeedmeter.. ?
  • RuudvBRuudvB Member
    @RobinVanKekem
    I will check.

    @WathLamers
    Good suggestion, it never occurred to me that there might be stations without wind metering...
  • RuudvBRuudvB Member
    Update
    I located a (different?) location near me and changed the station to that. I checked and insights for wind metering are working  B)

    Small remark, when changing the station it turned out that both location fields have to be filled in. If only the 1st filled, the station was found. But checking after saving, there was always a check-mark at use homey settings. Filling in both fields did the trick.
  • RuudvBRuudvB Member
    I really like this app, there are many flows where I can use these variables.

    I found something that looks like a small bug to me.

    I have tried several weather stations near me. Via Internet I can see the different wind directions, they do vary.
    Strangely the homey app variable windrichting keeps reporting "Noord". It is and stays Noord all the time.

    Could it be that this variable is not picked up and transferred correctly?
  • RobinVanKekemRobinVanKekem Member
    RuudvB said:
    I really like this app, there are many flows where I can use these variables.

    I found something that looks like a small bug to me.

    I have tried several weather stations near me. Via Internet I can see the different wind directions, they do vary.
    Strangely the homey app variable windrichting keeps reporting "Noord". It is and stays Noord all the time.

    Could it be that this variable is not picked up and transferred correctly?
    I'll have to drive into the code again to be sure but I'm fairly positive that I just parse the data I'm receiving one on one.
    Could you provide me with the location details so I could check through PM?
  • RuudvBRuudvB Member
    @RobinVanKekem
    Ik heb je een PM gestuurd.
  • RobinVanKekemRobinVanKekem Member
    Thanks, I'll look into it.
  • MarkSwiftMarkSwift Member
    I've added my station ID, but doing a test I can see the temperature for example isn't from my station ID?
  • rtnartna Member
    @MarkSwift: In what format did you enter your station ID?
  • MarkSwiftMarkSwift Member
    Like 'IGUISBOR3'?
  • MarkSwiftMarkSwift Member
    edited April 2017
    Argh, seems I needed to prefix it with 'pws:'

    Edit: Works on test, but after saving it, it returns to using Homey's location. If I also enter the city it does save but then the readings appear to be not from my station :(

    Edit 2: Seems I can work around it by using 'pws:IGUISBOR3' in both station ID and city?!
  • rtnartna Member
    The prefix pws: is needed but in my setup the app chooses the nearest city anyway and not my personal weather station.
  • MarkSwiftMarkSwift Member
    Did you try my suggestion and add your station to both fields?
  • CorvdNietCorvdNiet Member
    Thanks MarkSwift. Your suggestion did the trick
  • sossienlsossienl Member
    Any way to check the amount of rain today?

    Goal: To enable the garden spraying system (or not) based on the amount of rain today.
    I don't see this option currently. Would be awesome.
  • sossienlsossienl Member
    sossienl said:
    Any way to check the amount of rain today?

    Goal: To enable the garden spraying system (or not) based on the amount of rain today.
    I don't see this option currently. Would be awesome.
    Never mind. For this value I use JSON Path Better Logic from HTTP Request Flowcards
  • RobinVanKekemRobinVanKekem Member
    There are two rain global tags.
    One for rain this hour and one for rain today
  • keverjeroenkeverjeroen Member
    edited October 2017

    I found out that a flow, telling me some things about the weather was missing tags. After investigating, it looks like the Weather Underground app had global tags previously, but they are disappeared for me. I do see the information from the app in the Insights.

    Is this a known problem with the app?

  • RobinVanKekemRobinVanKekem Member
    Not that I'm aware of.
  • keverjeroenkeverjeroen Member
    Never mind, after a reboot of Homey and waiting a couple of minutes, the global tags are back..  :o
  • RobinVanKekemRobinVanKekem Member
    Once the app receives valid data it registers the global tokens.
    So it could take a while for them appear after a reboot or fresh install of the app.
  • keverjeroenkeverjeroen Member
    The app is running for months and Homey wasn't rebooted for a long time. And the insights was up to date... So that can't be the problem.. 
  • PeterFaganPeterFagan Member
    I am having a problem with my app. When I test it in settings it displays the temperature.

    If I trigger in the flow the "Read forecast for Today" it says weather data not available.

    Any ideas how to fix this.
  • RobinVanKekemRobinVanKekem Member
    When testing the app tries to get data in real time.
    When saved it will will for whatever minutes you have set it to until the first refresh.
  • ArchdemonArchdemon Member
    RobinVanKekem said:
    When testing the app tries to get data in real time.
    When saved it will will for whatever minutes you have set it to until the first refresh.
    Would it be possible to get tomorrows temps?

    So that i could start preheating the house if there is a coldsnap tomorrow for example
  • RobinVanKekemRobinVanKekem Member
    App has been updated to 1.0.3

    • Version 1.0.3
    • Add weather alert (Thanks to woudt!)
    • Version 1.0.2
    • Add mobile card
    • Version 1.0.1  * Add abbreviations to speech (thanks to J. Haanstra)
  • RobinVanKekemRobinVanKekem Member
    Archdemon said:
    RobinVanKekem said:
    When testing the app tries to get data in real time.
    When saved it will will for whatever minutes you have set it to until the first refresh.
    Would it be possible to get tomorrows temps?

    So that i could start preheating the house if there is a coldsnap tomorrow for example
    I'm currently rebuilding the app for the new Homey SDK in which I plan to add support for this
  • RobinVanKekemRobinVanKekem Member
    While I'm working updating the app and while I do  this I'd to add support for forecasts.
    However I'm not sure on how to implement.

    Weather Underground has two different kind of forecasts:
    • 36 hours ahead (every hour)
    • 10 days
    Any suggestions?
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