Announcing OpenWeatherMap binding for Eclipse SmartHome / openHAB

[5iver (Scott Rushworth)]

@johntech

I guess since I have a free license I can only get the current weather information.

You can get forecasts too. Set forecastHours to 120 (or however many you’d like in increments of 3) and forecastDays to 0. 120 forecastHours gives you 5 days of forecasts. This will require >600 Items, so you may want to check out…

OpenWeatherMap daily forecast using the free API

The OpenWeatherMap binding can be used with a free API, but this does not provide daily forecasts. So, I wrote a JSR223-Jython rule using the openhab2-jython modules to take the hourly data and add/remove the Items into groups that provide the daily forecast information. Since there are about 600 groups and Items that are needed, I included their creation in the rule too. The script file contains more details. I think this is pretty much final, so I’ll start working on a Habpanel widget! [i…