Announcing OpenWeatherMap binding for Eclipse SmartHome / openHAB

Breaking news.

First code review has passed and with it a great redesign of things for current weather and forecast was introduced. Unfortunately the current structure of the things had to be changed. Now they are combined into a new single thing. Good news are: Now you are able to configure the number of forecast hours and / or days on your own - no limitations - except the API bound restrictions.

You can download a new Testversion here (requires ESH build 306 or higher and / or OH2.4.M5 milestone 5 / or OH2.4 build 1405 or higher). Older versions (e.g. for OH2.3 release) are not supported anymore. I have updated the marketplace version too.

Major changes:

  • Attention: Added single thing weather-and-forecast for weather and forecast - combines all three previous available things
    Fair warning: The things weather, hourly-forecast and daily-forecast will be removed in the final version
  • Added dynamic number of hours / days for forecast - you now can change the number of forcasted hours / days in the thing configuration
    – hourly forecast is now supported from 3h up to 120h instead of 24h (24h are default)
    – daily forecast is now supported from 0 days up to 16 days instead of 5 days (5 days are default)
  • Finalized documentation
  • Finalized German translations - more translations in other languages are welcome; please PM me if you like to help
  • Introduced dedicated channel-types for forcasted data and removed icon-id channel
  • Removed discovery of the OpenWeatherMap Account - you now have to add it manually
  • Code improvements and stability

Thanks you very much for feedback.

Best,

Christoph

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