Dear Raymond,
Yes, it is still in development. I am working on the final version this week.
Dear Raymond,
Yes, it is still in development. I am working on the final version this week.
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:
weather-and-forecast
for weather and forecast - combines all three previous available thingsweather
, hourly-forecast
and daily-forecast
will be removed in the final versionicon-id
channelThanks you very much for feedback.
Best,
Christoph
Hi Christoph.
I can’t get the binding running. Yesterday i moved to milestone M5 and nothing changed. Before i used the stable version.
Do i need the things.file or can i configure it by paper UI.
If i use your thingdemo.file i get the error missing EOT at : line1,22.
Can you help me,
thanks and greetings,
Markus
Hi Markus,
What a pitty. The example for demo.things
from the latest documentation is broken. bridge
has to start with a capital letter: Bridge
. Thank you very much for reporting this.
Here is a fixed version:
Bridge openweathermap:weather-api:api "OpenWeatherMap Account" [apikey="AAA", refreshInterval=30, language="de"] {
Thing weather-and-forecast local "Local Weather And Forecast" [location="XXX,YYY", forecastHours=0, forecastDays=7]
Thing weather-and-forecast miami "Weather And Forecast In Miami" [location="25.782403,-80.264563", forecastHours=24, forecastDays=0]
}
@cweitkamp
how long do I wait till I some my site up weather working?
2018-11-03 00:06:09.290 [WARN ] [.weather.internal.bus.WeatherBinding] - Unable to find any configuration settings for weather binding. Check openhab.cfg.
2018-11-03 00:06:09.294 [ERROR] [org.apache.felix.configadmin ] - [org.osgi.service.cm.ManagedService, org.osgi.service.event.EventHandler, id=401, bundle=242/mvn:org.openhab.binding/org.openhab.binding.weather/1.13.0-SNAPSHOT]: Updating property weather of configuration org.openhab.weather caused a problem: Unable to find any configuration settings for weather binding. Check openhab.cfg.
org.osgi.service.cm.ConfigurationException: weather : Unable to find any configuration settings for weather binding. Check openhab.cfg.
at org.openhab.binding.weather.internal.bus.WeatherBinding.updated(WeatherBinding.java:76) ~[?:?]
at org.apache.felix.cm.impl.helper.ManagedServiceTracker$1.run(ManagedServiceTracker.java:177) ~[9:org.apache.felix.configadmin:1.9.4]
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) ~[?:?]
at org.apache.felix.cm.impl.helper.ManagedServiceTracker.updated(ManagedServiceTracker.java:173) ~[9:org.apache.felix.configadmin:1.9.4]
at org.apache.felix.cm.impl.helper.ManagedServiceTracker.updateService(ManagedServiceTracker.java:152) [9:org.apache.felix.configadmin:1.9.4]
at org.apache.felix.cm.impl.helper.ManagedServiceTracker.provideConfiguration(ManagedServiceTracker.java:85) [9:org.apache.felix.configadmin:1.9.4]
at org.apache.felix.cm.impl.ConfigurationManager$ManagedServiceUpdate.provide(ConfigurationManager.java:1102) [9:org.apache.felix.configadmin:1.9.4]
at org.apache.felix.cm.impl.ConfigurationManager$ManagedServiceUpdate.run(ConfigurationManager.java:1058) [9:org.apache.felix.configadmin:1.9.4]
at org.apache.felix.cm.impl.UpdateThread$1.run(UpdateThread.java:126) [9:org.apache.felix.configadmin:1.9.4]
at org.apache.felix.cm.impl.UpdateThread$1.run(UpdateThread.java:123) [9:org.apache.felix.configadmin:1.9.4]
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) ~[?:?]
at org.apache.felix.cm.impl.UpdateThread.run0(UpdateThread.java:122) [9:org.apache.felix.configadmin:1.9.4]
at org.apache.felix.cm.impl.UpdateThread.run(UpdateThread.java:105) [9:org.apache.felix.configadmin:1.9.4]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) [?:?]
==> /var/log/openhab2/events.log <==
2018-11-03 00:06:09.422 [thome.event.ExtensionEvent] - Extension 'binding-weather1' has been installed.```
Hi @adtwomey,
After installing the binding you have to create a bridge thing and put your credentials of your OWM account into its configuration. Afterwards the weather and forecast thing will be discovered automatically after a few seconds.
The log you have posted here is not related to the OWM binding. It shows messages for the OH1 weather binding.
So it’s not supported on a stable release of OH? I’ll wait for OH2.4 to become stable.
I’m testing out the new Test Version. Got it installed and running, however unless I have 0 forecast days in the Bridge, it goes to Offline. Change it back to 1 through 5 it goes Offline. Change it back to 0 then it goes back online. I’ve currently got 3 hours set.
It’s my understanding that even though I’ve got the Free API account… I should still have access to up 5 days of forecast. Am I wrong?
No, not yet. If you are using only stable versions you have to wait until next release.
Yes, I am afraid you misunderstood it. The hourly forecast is available for everyone. From 3 hours up to 120 hours (which are 5 days). The daily forecast is only available for paid accounts (see their Price-list).
what will this Icon do? I do see it in there
That’s a lots of work you saved me
It is already implemented and shows an icon of the weather condition (e.g. range of thunderstorm, drizzle, rain, snow, clouds, atmosphere including extreme conditions like tornado, hurricane etc.)
It is done. The PR has been merged and the binding will be part of an upcoming snapshot and of course in OH2.4 release. The Eclipse IoT Marketplace will be erased soon, I recommend you to switch to final version now.
cityId
instead of geographic coordinatessunrise
and sunset
More feature requests are appreciated.
Thank you very much for your support.
Best,
Christoph
@cweitkamp Great news! Thanks for this binding, and just in time before WU goes away!!
How many API calls does the binding make whenever the forecast is refreshed? I’ll be running the binding on 3 systems, and I want to back into the smallest refresh interval that will keep me under the free limit.
Also, in the README, the hourly channel group IDs in the 3-Hour Forecast table shows this.
forecastHours03, forecastHours06, ... forecastHours120
Shouldn’t it be this?
forecastHours03, forecastHours06, ... forecastHours12
Or, possibly even this, since the 3-hour forecast can go all the way to 24 hours?
forecastHours03, forecastHours06, ... forecastHours24
The binding will perform up to 3 requests (one for each: current, hourly forecast, daily forecast) per refresh period. If you do not use e.g. the daily forecast the binding calls the OWM API only twice.
The hourly forecast can retrieve data for a maximum of five days in 3-hour steps (see https://openweathermap.org/forecast5).
5 * 24 = 120
Thanks. I understand now. The 3-hour steps are over the full 5 days.
So there’s really no easy way to come up with a daily forecast from the 3-hour steps… And, $40 USD / month is crazy expensive for the daily forecast.
Unfortunately, Yes. I agree. That is one of the biggest disadvantages of the OWM API.
I’m on OH 2.4-M6 now and saw that the OpenWeatherMap-Binding is available. But when trying to read the docu, i got an “error 404”. Is there a docu elsewhere available ?