OH1.8: Wunderground config (ditch Yahoo)

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I have a perfect Yahoo setup in sitemap, items, and web widget… working for more than a year now.

Yahoo is having forecast problems for the last few days, filling up my log with errors, resulting in a broken web widget, etc.; in short: only trouble, and I had it.
So I got a Wunderground API key and thought all I need to do is change the openhab.cfg… well, that would be too easy.
I realise that I need to change items, which access the Yahoo Cache, where the items pull their info from.

My plea is for someone to share their Wunderground config with me, so I do not have to muck around for many hours figuring this out for myself (as these thing you only use once tend to take).

So yes, this is a lazy approach, but I would be really grateful for receiving any config – at least the web widget stuff, the items I should be able to modify (I think).
Also, if you have a working weather thing for Australia, with a 3 day forecast, I am happy to adopt this instead of a Wunderground config.

Thanks in advance for your willingness to hep.

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G’Day mate,

can’t offer a solution, just a “me too sad with yahoo”,but sometimes it feels good to know your not alone :wink:
Got a really swell working yahoo setup, with nice sitemaps/HabPanels, spoken forecast as alarm etc…which kinda stopped working a few days ago. Had the same about a year ago - stopped working and as i was allmost ready to swap to another weather provider, it started working again.
Being a lazy fellow meself i tend to just sit this one out as well. Unless someone has mercy with us :wink:
BTW using OH2 and weather binding 1.10

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A situation like this is one of the main reason why I’ve abandoned the Weather binding entirely and pull the data I need directly from the Wunderground API.

I don’t use the webview which I think requires the weather binding to work anyway so the below may be less than useful.

Anyway I’ve had a catastrophic failure of my system and don’t have ready access to my configs right now. Thankfully I haven’t lost any files (that was a real possibility for awhile). When I do (in a couple of days more likely) I’ll try to remember to come back and post my configs here.

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Thanks for the reply; can agree with your approach…
Did you have another catastrophe or the one you remarked on a few months ago?
This web thing is too jumpy anyway; rather have something else. So… happy to wait for you to come back.

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The one from a few months ago was a freak electrical thing that fried my hard drive. This one was all on me.

I finally bought a desktop server and installed ESXi on it to virtualize all my servers (ran out of room on that old laptop). Well, there were two problems:

  • I thought it didn’t support Virtualization Technology so I could only create 32-bit hosts so no Docker so I had to start over from scratch
  • The zwave controller kept timing out

In researching the latter I learned that ESXi 6.5 introduced a new USB driver and reverting to the old driver would fix the timeout problems. The same thread had someone mention it made the problem better but they had to revert to ESXi 6.0 to clear it up entirely. At the same time, I discovered that Virtualization Technology was just turned off in the BIOS and I can indeed create 64-bit VMs.

So I decided to start over from scratch assuming that the big VMDK where I had all my important files would be accessible. Well, it wasn’t. I installed 6.0 created new 64-bit VMs and when I tried to attach the big VMDK to the new VM it wouldn’t attach. Furthermore, 6.0 wouldn’t let me create VMs where I can pass through USB devices. :persevere:

After some great help on another thread, I installed 6.5 again and resurrected the old VM and boom, my VMDK was accessible again. Crisis averted.

I copied the files off and have now figured out how to pass the drive to the VM as a RAW drive so should something like this happen again, I can pull the drive and attach it to another computer and read the files.

So now I just need to rebuild the VMs and I’m good to go. And because I now have 64-bit VMs I can use Docker and because I use Ansible for all my configurations this will be the easy part.

But before I rebuild my git server or home automation, I need to get Plex back up so my 4 year old can get to his favorite movies again. :slight_smile:

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Hi Rich,

t\To pull the data from the Wunderground API are you using a HTTP request and retrieve JSON? I would like to follow a similar approach so any hints would be welcome

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Yes. As soon as I can get back to my config files I’ll post my configs.

At a high level, I use the HTTP binding to poll the API page and use JSONPATH transforms to extract the data I need. In one case I need to use a JavaScript transform to strip off the percent sign on humidity so I can store the value as a number.

If you look at the Wunderground’s API pages, they have examples for how to create the URL to poll using your API key and location or nearest weather station.

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Hi again,
I did a little snooping in my persistence database and noticed two things:

  • updates to the items are working every other hour, sometimes every hour like they should, sometimes with 2-4 hours gaps in between
  • if my current weather item “Wetterlage” (type=condition) receives command UNDEF thus messing up my sitemap and alarm forecast, this is NOT saved to persistence. This seems true for all weather items; actually checked three.

So i set up a little rule:

rule "bad weather"
when
	Item Wetterlage changed to UNDEF
then
	logInfo("diverse.rules", "Wetterbinding kackt ab...")
	sendCommand(Wetterlage,Wetterlage.previousState.state.toString)
end

and all is looking OK again. Totally not solves the issue, but everthing looks good and i can live with a 3 hour old weather condition. So if you have persisitence on your weather items, maybe this could help you out too.
Cheers,
-OLI

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WARNING: Yahoo weather errors ==> fill up log to kill rPi

Well, after a few days of constant errors with Yahoo weather, my logging stopped.
As it turned out OH is logginh to:
openhab.log
event.log
daemon.log
syslog

… some of them growing to 500MB!! per day, due to this b!oody Yahoo error.and as a result the 16GB SD card was full to 100% after which the whole system fell over.
I now moved var/log to the attached SSD drive… and disabled the Yahoo weather web view.
but I thought I mention it, for other to be aware that the Yahoo error should not be underestimated given the possible system stop.

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Edit: I posted a more complete and up-to-date version here

I thought the default behavior of the loggers was to rotate the log file when it gets over 10 mg and only keep the last ten logs. You shouldn’t have had it fill up your SD card. It could have worn out your SD card with writes but it shouldn’t have filled it up.

Check your /var/lib/openhab2/etc/org.[I don’t remember].logger and look at the settings for the File appender near the bottom. It should define the log rotation problems.

Beyond that, I’ve not forgotten to come back and post. I don’t have my Gogs server back up but I realized I could clone from its files directly. So here is my config.

NOTES:

  • I don’t yet have condition icons configured
  • I don’t have a webview for weather

http.service

weatherConditions.url=http://api.wunderground.com/api/<api key>/conditions/q/pws:<weather station id>.json
weatherConditions.updateInterval=30000

weatherForecast.url=http://api.wunderground.com/api/<api key>/forecast/q/pws:<weather station id>.json
weatherForecast.updateInterval=30000

See the wunderground api for how to format if you use lat/long instead. You cna find the weather station ID by searching in the main wunderground site, click “Change Station”, and you will find the station ID in parens after the name of the station in the list.

Items

Number vWeather_Temp "Outside Temp [%.0f °F]"
    <temperature> (gChart)
    { http="<[weatherConditions:420000:JSONPATH($.current_observation.temp_f)]" }
    
String vWeather_Conditions "Current Conditions [%s]"
    { http="<[weatherConditions:420000:JSONPATH($.current_observation.weather)]" }

Number vWeather_Humidity "Outside Humidity [%d%%]"
    <humidity> (gChart)
    { http="<[weatherConditions:420000:REGEX(.*\"relative_humidity\":\"(.*)%\".*)]" }
    
String vWeather_Wind "Wind [%s]"
    { http="<[weatherConditions:420000:JSONPATH($.current_observation.wind_string)]" }
    
Number vWeather_Wind_MPH "Wind Speed [%.1f MPH]"
    (gChart)
    { http="<[weatherConditions:420000:JSONPATH($.current_observation.wind_mph)]" }
    
Number vWeather_Wind_Gusts "Wind Gusts [%.1f MPH]"
    (gChart)
    { http="<[weatherConditions:420000:JSONPATH($.current_observation.wind_gust_mph)]" }
    
Number vWeather_Pressure "Barometric Pressure [%.1f in]"
    <line> (gChart)
    { http="<[weatherConditions:420000:JSONPATH($.current_observation.pressure_in)]" }
    
String vWeather_Pressure_Trend "Barometric Pressure Trend [MAP(weather.map):%s]"
    <line>
    { http="<[weatherConditions:420000:JSONPATH($.current_observation.pressure_trend)]" }
    
Number vWeather_Dewpoint "Dew Point [%.1f °F]"
    <temperature> (gChart)
    { http="<[weatherConditions:420000:JSONPATH($.current_observation.dewpoint_f)]" }
    
Number vWeather_Feel "Feels like [%.0f °F]"
    <temperature> (gChart)
    { http="<[weatherConditions:420000:JSONPATH($.current_observation.feelslike_f)]" }
    
Number vWeather_Visibility "Visibility [%.1f miles]"
    <sun_clouds>
    { http="<[weatherConditions:420000:JSONPATH($.current_observation.visibility_mi)]" }
    
Number vWeather_SolarRad "Solar Radiation [%d]"
    <sun>
    { http="<[weatherConditions:420000:JSONPATH($.current_observation.solarradiation)]" }

Number vWeather_UV "UV Index [%.1f]"
    { http="<[weatherConditions:420000:JSONPATH($.current_observation.UV)]" }
    
Number vWeather_PrecipToday "Precipitation So Far [%.1f in]"
    <rain> (gChart)
    { http="<[weatherConditions:420000:JSONPATH($.current_observation.precip_today_in)]" }
    
String vWeather_Today_Conditions "Today Conditions [%s]"
    { http="<[weatherForecast:420000:JSONPATH($.forecast.simpleforecast.forecastday[0].conditions)]" }
    
Number vWeather_Today_TempHigh "Today High [%.0f °F]"
    <temperature>
    { http="<[weatherForecast:420000:JSONPATH($.forecast.simpleforecast.forecastday[0].high.fahrenheit)]" }
    
Number vWeather_Today_TempLow "Today Low [%.0f °F]"
    <temperature>
    { http="<[weatherForecast:420000:JSONPATH($.forecast.simpleforecast.forecastday[0].low.fahrenheit)]" }
    
Number vWeather_Today_QPF "Today Precip QPF [%.1f in]"
    <rain>
    { http="<[weatherForecast:420000:JSONPATH($.forecast.simpleforecast.forecastday[0].qpf_allday.in)]" }
    
Number vWeather_Today_Snow "Today Snow [%.1f in]"
    <climate-on>
    { http="<[weatherForecast:420000:JSONPATH($.forecast.simpleforecast.forecastday[0].snow_allday.in)]" }    

String vWeather_Tomorrow_Conditions "Tomorrow Conditions [%s]"
    { http="<[weatherForecast:420000:JSONPATH($.forecast.simpleforecast.forecastday[1].conditions)]" }
    
Number vWeather_Tomorrow_TempHigh "Tomorrow High [%.0f °F]"
    <temperature>
    { http="<[weatherForecast:420000:JSONPATH($.forecast.simpleforecast.forecastday[1].high.fahrenheit)]" }
    
Number vWeather_Tomorrow_TempLow "Tomorrow Low [%.0f °F]"
    <temperature>
    { http="<[weatherForecast:420000:JSONPATH($.forecast.simpleforecast.forecastday[1].low.fahrenheit)]" }
    
Number vWeather_Tomorrow_QPF "Tomorrow Precip QPF [%.1f in]"
    <rain>
    { http="<[weatherForecast:420000:JSONPATH($.forecast.simpleforecast.forecastday[1].qpf_allday.in)]" }
    
Number vWeather_Tomorrow_Snow "Tomorrow Snow [%.1f in]"
    <climate-on>
    { http="<[weatherForecast:420000:JSONPATH($.forecast.simpleforecast.forecastday[1].snow_allday.in)]" }

And to save you some looking here are example JSON responses I saved in my .items files for reference. It is handy to not have to look the full format up every time.

Note I use a REGEX to strip the “%” off of the relative humidity value but use JSONPATH to pull the rest of the values.

// Example Conditions

{
  "response": {
    "version":"0.1",
    "termsofService":"http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/terms.html",
    "features": {
      "conditions": 1
    }
      }
  , "current_observation": {
              "image": {
                "url":"http://icons.wxug.com/graphics/wu2/logo_130x80.png",
                "title":"Weather Underground",
                "link":"http://www.wunderground.com"
              },
              "display_location": {
                "full":"Monument, CO",
                "city":"Monument",
                "state":"CO",
                "state_name":"Colorado",
                "country":"US",
                "country_iso3166":"US",
                "zip":"80132",
                "magic":"1",
                "wmo":"99999",
                "latitude":"<latitude>",
                "longitude":"<longitude>",
                "elevation":"2126.6"
              },
              "observation_location": {
                "full":"Jackson Creek/ Baptist Road, Monument, Colorado",
                "city":"Jackson Creek/ Baptist Road, Monument",
                "state":"Colorado",
                "country":"",
                "country_iso3166":"US",
                "latitude":"<latitude>",
                "longitude":"<longitude>",
                "elevation":"7010 ft"
              },
              "estimated": {
              },
              "station_id":"<station id>",
              "observation_time":"Last Updated on January 15, 11:22 AM MST",
              "observation_time_rfc822":"Sun, 15 Jan 2017 11:22:39 -0700",
              "observation_epoch":"1484504559",
              "local_time_rfc822":"Sun, 15 Jan 2017 11:22:47 -0700",
              "local_epoch":"1484504567",
              "local_tz_short":"MST",
              "local_tz_long":"America/Denver",
              "local_tz_offset":"-0700",
              "weather":"Snow",
              "temperature_string":"29.3 F (-1.5 C)",
              "temp_f":29.3,
              "temp_c":-1.5,
              "relative_humidity":"86%",
              "wind_string":"Calm",
              "wind_dir":"East",
              "wind_degrees":89,
              "wind_mph":0.0,
              "wind_gust_mph":0,
              "wind_kph":0,
              "wind_gust_kph":0,
              "pressure_mb":"1017",
              "pressure_in":"30.03",
              "pressure_trend":"-",
              "dewpoint_string":"25.6 F (-3.6 C)",
              "dewpoint_f":25.6,
              "dewpoint_c":-3.6,
              "heat_index_string":"NA",
              "heat_index_f":"NA",
              "heat_index_c":"NA",
              "windchill_string":"NA",
              "windchill_f":"NA",
              "windchill_c":"NA",
              "feelslike_string":"29.3 F (-1.5 C)",
              "feelslike_f":"29.3",
              "feelslike_c":"-1.5",
              "visibility_mi":"4.0",
              "visibility_km":"6.4",
              "solarradiation":"77",
              "UV":"0.0","precip_1hr_string":"0.00 in (0.0 mm)",
              "precip_1hr_in":"0.00",
              "precip_1hr_metric":"0.0",
              "precip_today_string":"0.00 in (0 mm)",
              "precip_today_in":"0.00",
              "precip_today_metric":"0",
              "icon":"snow",
              "icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/snow.gif",
              "forecast_url":"http://www.wunderground.com/US/CO/Monument.html",
              "history_url":"http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=<station id>",
              "ob_url":"http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=<latitude,longitude>",
              "nowcast":""
      }
}

// Example Forecast

{
  "response": {
    "version":"0.1",
    "termsofService":"http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/terms.html",
    "features": {
      "forecast": 1
    }
      }
              ,
      "forecast":{
              "txt_forecast": {
                "date":"12:03 PM MST",
                "forecastday": [
                  {
                    "period":0,
                    "icon":"snow",
                    "icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/snow.gif",
                    "title":"Sunday",
                    "fcttext":"Occasional snow showers. Temps nearly steady in the low to mid 30s. Winds N at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of snow 50%.",
                    "fcttext_metric":"Occasional snow showers. High around 0C. Winds N at 15 to 25 km/h. Chance of snow 50%.",
                    "pop":"50"
                  }
                  ,
                  {
                    "period":1,
                    "icon":"nt_snow",
                    "icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/nt_snow.gif",
                    "title":"Sunday Night",
                    "fcttext":"Variable clouds with snow showers. Low near 25F. Winds NNW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of snow 70%. Snowfall around one inch.",
                    "fcttext_metric":"Variably cloudy with snow showers. Low -4C. Winds NNW at 15 to 30 km/h. Chance of snow 60%. 2-3cm of snow expected.",
                    "pop":"70"
                  }
                  ,
                  {
                    "period":2,
                    "icon":"snow",
                    "icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/snow.gif",
                    "title":"Monday",
                    "fcttext":"Variable clouds and windy at times with snow showers. High 32F. Winds NNW at 20 to 30 mph. Chance of snow 70%. Snowfall around one inch.",
                    "fcttext_metric":"Windy early...occasional snow showers. High near 0C. Winds NNW at 25 to 40 km/h. Chance of snow 70%. Snow accumulations less than 2cm.",
                    "pop":"70"
                  }
                  ,
                  {
                    "period":3,
                    "icon":"nt_partlycloudy",
                    "icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/nt_partlycloudy.gif",
                    "title":"Monday Night",
                    "fcttext":"Cloudy skies early will become partly cloudy later at night. Low 17F. Winds WNW at 10 to 15 mph.",
                    "fcttext_metric":"Cloudy early with partial clearing expected late. Low -8C. Winds WNW at 15 to 25 km/h.",
                    "pop":"10"
                  }
                  ,
                  {
                    "period":4,
                    "icon":"clear",
                    "icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/clear.gif",
                    "title":"Tuesday",
                    "fcttext":"Sunny. High 47F. Winds WSW at 5 to 10 mph.",
                    "fcttext_metric":"Sunny skies. High 8C. Winds WSW at 10 to 15 km/h.",
                    "pop":"10"
                  }
                  ,
                  {
                    "period":5,
                    "icon":"nt_clear",
                    "icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/nt_clear.gif",
                    "title":"Tuesday Night",
                    "fcttext":"Clear skies. Low 23F. Winds WNW at 5 to 10 mph.",
                    "fcttext_metric":"Clear. Low around -5C. Winds WNW at 10 to 15 km/h.",
                    "pop":"0"
                  }
                  ,
                  {
                    "period":6,
                    "icon":"clear",
                    "icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/clear.gif",
                    "title":"Wednesday",
                    "fcttext":"Sunny. High 53F. Winds W at 5 to 10 mph.",
                    "fcttext_metric":"Sunny skies. High 12C. Winds WSW at 10 to 15 km/h.",
                    "pop":"0"
                  }
                  ,
                  {
                    "period":7,
                    "icon":"nt_clear",
                    "icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/nt_clear.gif",
                    "title":"Wednesday Night",
                    "fcttext":"A mostly clear sky. Low 29F. Winds WNW at 5 to 10 mph.",
                    "fcttext_metric":"A mostly clear sky. Low -1C. Winds WNW at 10 to 15 km/h.",
                    "pop":"0"
                  }
                ]
              },
              "simpleforecast": {
                "forecastday": [
                  {"date":{
                "epoch":"1484532000",
                "pretty":"7:00 PM MST on January 15, 2017",
                "day":15,
                "month":1,
                "year":2017,
                "yday":14,
                "hour":19,
                "min":"00",
                "sec":0,
                "isdst":"0",
                "monthname":"January",
                "monthname_short":"Jan",
                "weekday_short":"Sun",
                "weekday":"Sunday",
                "ampm":"PM",
                "tz_short":"MST",
                "tz_long":"America/Denver"
          },
                  "period":1,
                  "high": {
                    "fahrenheit":"32",
                    "celsius":"0"
                  },
                  "low": {
                    "fahrenheit":"25",
                    "celsius":"-4"
                  },
                  "conditions":"Snow Showers",
                  "icon":"snow",
                  "icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/snow.gif",
                  "skyicon":"",
                  "pop":50,
                  "qpf_allday": {
                    "in": 0.11,
                    "mm": 3
                  },
                  "qpf_day": {
                    "in": 0.00,
                    "mm": 0
                  },
                  "qpf_night": {
                    "in": 0.10,
                    "mm": 3
                  },
                  "snow_allday": {
                    "in": 1.1,
                    "cm": 2.8
                  },
                  "snow_day": {
                    "in": 0.0,
                    "cm": 0.0
                  },
                  "snow_night": {
                    "in": 1.0,
                    "cm": 2.5
                  },
                 "maxwind": {
                    "mph": 15,
                    "kph": 24,
                    "dir": "N",
                    "degrees": 349
                  },
                  "avewind": {
                    "mph": 11,
                    "kph": 18,
                    "dir": "N",
                    "degrees": 349
                  },
                  "avehumidity": 85,
                  "maxhumidity": 0,
                  "minhumidity": 0
                }
                ,
              {"date":{
      "epoch":"1484618400",
      "pretty":"7:00 PM MST on January 16, 2017",
      "day":16,
      "month":1,
      "year":2017,
      "yday":15,
      "hour":19,
      "min":"00",
      "sec":0,
      "isdst":"0",
      "monthname":"January",
      "monthname_short":"Jan",
      "weekday_short":"Mon",
      "weekday":"Monday",
      "ampm":"PM",
      "tz_short":"MST",
      "tz_long":"America/Denver"
},
              "period":2,
              "high": {
              "fahrenheit":"32",
              "celsius":"0"
              },
              "low": {
              "fahrenheit":"17",
              "celsius":"-8"
              },
              "conditions":"Snow Showers",
              "icon":"snow",
              "icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/snow.gif",
              "skyicon":"",
              "pop":70,
              "qpf_allday": {
              "in": 0.08,
              "mm": 2
              },
              "qpf_day": {
              "in": 0.08,
              "mm": 2
              },
              "qpf_night": {
              "in": 0.00,
              "mm": 0
              },
              "snow_allday": {
              "in": 0.8,
              "cm": 2.0
              },
              "snow_day": {
              "in": 0.8,
              "cm": 2.0
              },
              "snow_night": {
              "in": 0.0,
              "cm": 0.0
              },
              "maxwind": {
              "mph": 30,
              "kph": 48,
              "dir": "NNW",
              "degrees": 334
              },
              "avewind": {
              "mph": 20,
              "kph": 32,
              "dir": "NNW",
              "degrees": 334
              },
              "avehumidity": 77,
              "maxhumidity": 0,
              "minhumidity": 0
              }
              ,
              {"date":{
      "epoch":"1484704800",
      "pretty":"7:00 PM MST on January 17, 2017",
      "day":17,
      "month":1,
      "year":2017,
      "yday":16,
      "hour":19,
      "min":"00",
      "sec":0,
      "isdst":"0",
      "monthname":"January",
      "monthname_short":"Jan",
      "weekday_short":"Tue",
      "weekday":"Tuesday",
      "ampm":"PM",
      "tz_short":"MST",
      "tz_long":"America/Denver"
},
              "period":3,
              "high": {
              "fahrenheit":"47",
              "celsius":"8"
              },
              "low": {
              "fahrenheit":"23",
              "celsius":"-5"
              },
              "conditions":"Clear",
              "icon":"clear",
              "icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/clear.gif",
              "skyicon":"",
              "pop":10,
              "qpf_allday": {
              "in": 0.00,
              "mm": 0
              },
              "qpf_day": {
              "in": 0.00,
              "mm": 0
              },
              "qpf_night": {
              "in": 0.00,
              "mm": 0
              },
              "snow_allday": {
              "in": 0.0,
              "cm": 0.0
              },
              "snow_day": {
              "in": 0.0,
              "cm": 0.0
              },
              "snow_night": {
              "in": 0.0,
              "cm": 0.0
              },
              "maxwind": {
              "mph": 10,
              "kph": 16,
              "dir": "WSW",
              "degrees": 255
              },
              "avewind": {
              "mph": 9,
              "kph": 14,
              "dir": "WSW",
              "degrees": 255
              },
              "avehumidity": 45,
              "maxhumidity": 0,
              "minhumidity": 0
              }
              ,
              {"date":{
      "epoch":"1484791200",
      "pretty":"7:00 PM MST on January 18, 2017",
      "day":18,
      "month":1,
      "year":2017,
      "yday":17,
      "hour":19,
      "min":"00",
      "sec":0,
      "isdst":"0",
      "monthname":"January",
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}
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@Max_G, note, a log file that grows out of control when it should could be a sign that SD card is going bad. I had that happen to me once where the syslog grew out of control because the operations to rotate the log files didn’t take. It would do the operations to rotate the file but nothing happened and the file continued to grow. In the end, when I finally discovered the problem I would delete the file but it would invariably pop back up on a reboot.

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@rlkoshak: Thank you kindly for posting your Wunderground config… and for being of help for the suspected SD card issue .

It is thankfully not an SD card issue!
I checked these logs in the meantime; and it is what I said that OH1 writes to the daemon log, and syslog, as well as to its own log: openhab.log and events.log.
The Yahoo error was triggered ever time the screen, the widget was on, had a refresh due to values being updated – thus eventually created enormously sized log files.

-rw-r-----  1 root      adm       34908764 May 17 07:58 daemon.log
-rw-r-----  1 root      adm     3411547251 May 15 06:27 daemon.log.1
-rw-r-----  1 root      adm       20091127 May  7 06:26 daemon.log.2.gz
-rw-r-----  1 root      adm        3246022 May  1 06:25 daemon.log.3.gz

-rw-r-----  1 root      adm        1048937 May 17 07:58 syslog
-rw-r-----  1 root      adm       16923889 May 17 06:25 syslog.1
-rw-r-----  1 root      adm        1519761 May 16 06:25 syslog.2.gz
-rw-r-----  1 root      adm        1566046 May 15 06:25 syslog.3.gz
-rw-r-----  1 root      adm        2124962 May 14 06:26 syslog.4.gz
-rw-r-----  1 root      adm        4996713 May 13 06:25 syslog.5.gz

… as can be seen, since disabling Yahoo weather on the 14th, the logs have become significantly smaller.

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Works great!! Tnx