Weather underground free api keys going away #31
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I figured that would happen sooner or later. The original authors of the SIP weather plugins are no longer active but It may be possible to make the change without too much trouble. |
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I have seen others moving to the darksky api: https://darksky.net/dev as well which is free for the first 1000 requests. |
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See this post: |
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If I can find some time, I will take a look at getting the open weather map stuff going. I just have a lot of other irons in the fire so to speak so it will take some time and currently using weather underground is still working as long as one doesn't have to get a new key. |
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Any other options to look at? After looking closer at open weather map, the only station one can use is the what they have published or ones own weather station that is being uploaded to the service. It doesn't appear as if one can use say a neighbors weather station data that is uploaded unless one has a the api key that was used to upload the data. |
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Bummer! There is some Python code on the internet for doing this, for example: Since the weather plugins are set up to use alternate data sources it might be necessary to add ones for different parts of the world. |
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I looked a bit into the openweathermap. I am pretty sure that it can provide forecast data similar to what wunderground was providing. It is necessary to have an appid, and my take is that each user will need to have their own. Current and 5-day forecast (3-hour periods) data is free. Historical data is not, and is quite expensive. Saving the current data on the RPi is probably going to be important. An example of current conditions and a forecast are at the bottom of this message. I've looked through the weather_level_adj code. I think it would take me quite some time to retrofit it to replace the wunderground calls, because I don't understand how it calculates things, what the wunderground queries and responses looked like, or what is saved where (both in the running program and on disk). So I thought that summarizing some openweathermap info like this might be helpful. Here is an example of output for a "weather" query using my US zip code (02806) and my api key:
and here is the query I used: Here is what a forecast query looks like: and the result: |
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The problem with open weather map is one can use a neighbor weather station that is reporting in. One ends up using whatever is available for the area which maybe some miles away.
Steve
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From: DavidLaidlaw <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 4, 2018 2:12:35 PM
To: Dan-in-CA/sip_plugins
Cc: Steve Bauer; Author
Subject: Re: [Dan-in-CA/sip_plugins] Weather underground free api keys going away (#31)
I looked a bit into the openweathermap. I am pretty sure that it can provide forecast data similar to what wunderground was providing. It is necessary to have an appid, and my take is that each user will need to have their own. Current and 5-day forecast (3-hour periods) data is free. Historical data is not, and is quite expensive. Saving the current data on the RPi is probably going to be important.
An example of current conditions and a forecast are at the bottom of this message.
I've looked through the weather_level_adj code. I think it would take me quite some time to retrofit it to replace the wunderground calls, because I don't understand how it calculates things, what the wunderground queries and responses looked like, or what is saved where (both in the running program and on disk). So I thought that summarizing some openweathermap info like this might be helpful.
Here is an example of output for a "weather" query using my US zip code (02806) and my api key:
{"coord":{"lon":-71.31,"lat":41.74},"weather":[{"id":802,"main":"Clouds","description":"scattered clouds","icon":"03d"}],"base":"stations","main":{"temp":303.99,"pressure":1026,"humidity":46,"temp_min":301.15,"temp_max":307.15},"visibility":16093,"wind":{"speed":3.6,"deg":150},"clouds":{"all":40},"dt":1530731700,"sys":{"type":1,"id":2390,"message":0.0041,"country":"US","sunrise":1530695790,"sunset":1530750175},"id":420032876,"name":"East Providence","cod":200}
and here is the query I used:
http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?zip=02806&appid=XXXX
(with the appid removed)
Here is what a forecast query looks like:
http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast?zip=02806&appid=XXXX
and the result:
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https://www.weatherbit.io/api seems to give some historical data even in the free level. But not sure, how accurate?! |
As can be seen here, https://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/, the free api keys are going away. This will affect the weather base water level adjust.
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