OpenWeatherMap - Account offline

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Hi,

using the PaperUI I did set up an Account with the OpenWeatherMap Binding and it worked flawlessly until about 3 weeks ago.
Now the “OpenWeatherMapAccount” is marked offline in the PaperUI -> Things.

I checked the api-key, re-inserted it, checked the api-key with the account on openweathermap.org and the key works on a Browser call like “https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast?lat=50…&lon=6…&lang=se&cnt=5&mode=json&units=metric&APPID=50…”.
I uninstalled the binding and reinstalled it, with or without reboot in between - it is still - offline!

If the account is offline my problems can’t come from faulty items/sitemap/rules definitions, right?

I run Openhab v2.5.3-1 as a Raspbian-build on a Raspi 2 B.

Thanks for anyone helping me out!

Eckart

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I don’t know if it could be the reason, but you know that you have to have at least two things. One for the account and another one for the information

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Yes, I know.
And of those the “Account” is offline.
Therefore the other one does not work because of the “Account”-Failure.
Thanks anyway.

In the logs i get:

2020-04-05 18:47:47.940 [me.event.ThingUpdatedEvent] - Thing ‘openweathermap:weather-api:1714a4db619’ has been updated.
2020-04-05 18:47:47.940 [DEBUG] [nal.handler.OpenWeatherMapAPIHandler] - Initialize OpenWeatherMap API handler ‘openweathermap:weather-api:1714a4db619’.
2020-04-05 18:47:47.964 [hingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - ‘openweathermap:weather-api:1714a4db619’ changed from OFFLINE to UNKNOWN
2020-04-05 18:47:47.963 [DEBUG] [nal.handler.OpenWeatherMapAPIHandler] - Start refresh job at interval 1444 min.
2020-04-05 18:48:02.974 [hingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - ‘openweathermap:weather-api:1714a4db619’ changed from UNKNOWN to OFFLINE

Eckart

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Have you tried it with a textual configuration ?

owm.things

Bridge openweathermap:weather-api:api "OpenWeatherMap Account"     [apikey="your-api-key", refreshInterval=30, language="de"] {
     Thing weather-and-forecast local "Local Weather And Forecast" [location="12.3456,1.2345,502", forecastHours=120, forecastDays=0]
//     Thing uvindex              local "Local UV Index"             [location="12.3456,1.2345", forecastDays=7] //with or without
}

and a corresponding item/channel configuration.

owm.items

Number:Temperature   localHourlyForecastTemperature_00        "Aktuelle Temperatur [%.1f %unit%]"                               <temperature>  (gOWM1,gTemp)        { channel="openweathermap:weather-and-forecast:api:local:current#temperature" }
String               localHourlyForecastCondition_00          "Aktuelle Wetterlage[%s]"                                         <sun_clouds>   (gOWM1)              { channel="openweathermap:weather-and-forecast:api:local:current#condition" }
Number:Pressure      localHourlyForecastPressure_00           "Aktuelle Luftdruck [%.1f %unit%]"                                <pressure>     (gOWM1,gPres)        { channel="openweathermap:weather-and-forecast:api:local:current#pressure" }
Number:Dimensionless localHourlyForecastHumidity_00           "Aktuelle Luftfeuchtigkeit [%d %unit%]"                           <humidity>     (gOWM1,gHum)         { channel="openweathermap:weather-and-forecast:api:local:current#humidity" }
Number:Speed         localHourlyForecastWindSpeed_00          "Aktuelle Windgeschwindigkeit [%.1f km/h]"                        <wind>         (gOWM1)              { channel="openweathermap:weather-and-forecast:api:local:current#wind-speed" }
Number:Angle         localHourlyForecastWindDirection_00      "Aktuelle Windrichtung in Grad[%d %unit%]"                        <wind>         (gOWM1)              { channel="openweathermap:weather-and-forecast:api:local:current#wind-direction" }
...
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Thanks a lot!
That worked for me. (own.things)
I am still wondering why the PaperUI is not working, but nonetheless more important to me is that it works again!
I can even change the Bridge to the one from “own.things” in my preexisting “Local weather and forecast”, so my sitemaps and rules work again.
Thank you!

Eckart

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Maybe it was the combination between Bridge/Thing/Item-Channel.

If you create a new Bridge “openweathermap”(Account) via PaperUI there will be always another (random) ThingID created. That means your Weather-Thing also have to be changed an of course the Channel-Definition of your items.

Now in the textual Description you have a static ThingID (api) and your Weather-thing has therfore the "ThingUID “weather-and-forecast” (weather-api:api) has the Id “local”. So your item-channel becomes
“openweathermap:weather-and-forecast:api:local”, and thats an easy change.
This is how I understand it, but it’s no professional explanation.

One tip from my side for your item-configuration. Try to create your item-names in a logic seqence as mine. It would help you if you are working with rules, lmbdas, aggregations,etc.
Cheers,
Peter