Openweathermap have changed the forecast url - what can i do?

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Hello Everybody,

i have a problem with a automatic generated URL’s from openhab2
The program generate the following url’s
http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=yy.yy&lon=xx.xx&lang=en&mode=json&units=metric&APPID=XXXX
and
http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/daily?lat=yy.yy&lon=xx.xx&lang=en&cnt=5&mode=json&units=metric&APPID=XXXX

The first url is ok but the second url generate the following error message
2018-01-19 23:23:21.181 [ERROR] [nal.provider.AbstractWeatherProvider] - OPENWEATHERMAP[home-OWM]: Can’t retreive weather data: Invalid API key. Please see http://openweathermap.org/faq#error401 for more info.

i found on openweathermap that the URL was changed for the free api Connection.
It must be:
http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast?lat=yy.yy&lon=xx.xx&lang=en&cnt=5&mode=json&units=metric&APPID=XXXX
Where can this URL be customized?

Regards Bernd

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For safety reasons, I suggest you remove your lat and lon in the link you posted.

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Thx changed it

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Where is this automatically created URL coming from? I’m using the weather binding with data from OpenWeather and do see no problem.

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Hi Bernd,

the URLs are correct. The binding currently retrieves data using the daily forecast API. This is in general only available for paid accounts. The URL you suggested belongs to the 3 hour forecast API. That one is for free. There is a feature request:

@opus do you use the forecast features? OWM granted more privileges to some older free API keys.