I just installed the updated binding on 4.0.2 and it seems to be working. The only thing I noticed changed from my previous installation is a lot of log entries for rapid wind data in the event log which wasn’t there in my previous version. I would be interested in turning that off if possible. I also am seeing events in the openhab log for every data update, but I think that is actually related to the weather calculations binding.
I upgraded this morning and found a fix to the item update - add these two lines to your userdata/etc/log4j2.xml file (in the “openHAB specific logger configuration” section):
<Logger level="ERROR" name="openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent"/>
<Logger level="ERROR" name="openhab.event.GroupStateUpdatedEvent"/>
For the rapid wind ones I have this in there from previously:
<Logger level="OFF" name="openhab.event.RapidWindEvent"/>
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Thanks for developing this binding. I just installed the .jar from above in the addons folder on my Pi4B running OH4 release version. The Hub thing appeared almost immediately. It took me a minute to realize I needed a separate thing for the weather station, but once I realized that, I manually added a thing and the station was automatically detected. Working great so far.
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Thanks for posting this Steve! Just what I was looking for 
Happy to be able to turn off the Rapidwind updates in the log.
Moving the 4.0.1 .jar into the /usr/share/openhab/addons folder let me add autodiscovered things for both the Hub and the Tempest on OpenHab 4.0.4. Thank you!
I would love to see this added into the marketplace or standard addons distribution for maintainability and installation. Let me know if there is something I can do to help with that!
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Hello @hww3
Getting this error with Oh4.1Milestone 5
- Error while starting bundle: file:/usr/share/openhab/addons/org.openhab.binding.weatherflowsmartweather-4.0.1.jar
org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Could not resolve module: org.openhab.binding.weathercalculations [28]
Unresolved requirement: Import-Package: org.openhab.core.config.core
can you compile it new?
It’s actually surprisingly hard to make versions for a particular milestone release. I think the 4.1 release is almost here, so I’ve prepared a version for that:
http://bill.welliver.org/dist/openhab/org.openhab.binding.weatherflowsmartweather-4.1.0.jar
Hello is there a trigger available for the rain event?
I mean is this API
Rain Start Event
Also implemented?
There is a rule trigger that exposes this, along with the lightning strike event. You just have to create a new rule and use “when rain started” and choose the correct smart weather device.
I’ve been told that the trigger works, but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it (I have an older sky device, so there may be a difference in behavior).
Thanks for this great binding, Bill! Using it for almost 2 years (since the early days 
and it works like a charm.
Just upgraded to OH 4.1 and installed your recompiled version 4.1.0. Initially I thought it was broken as no channels received any updates for a couple of minutes despite log files showed that hub was auto discovered.
After a full OH restart and a couple of minutes of patience the channels finally updated.
Just wanted to thank you for your work on this binding: THANKS!
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Hey Bill,
Thanks for the binding and aldo thank you for updating the binding quickly to the next version.
Is there a reason why you don’t put it into the official repo? Because this helps to cool down your time if a new milestone or version is coming up?
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Hello,
I have a general issue getting the humidity from my weather station.
All other channels work perfectly, and also in the past (I think with OH3) it was working.
Here a screen shot of my humidity channel
Any idea why explicitly this channel is not working?
Here also my item definition:
Number:Dimensionless SmartWeatherHub_Humidity “Feuchte [%.1f %% rH]” (Group_Weatherstation)
{ channel=“weatherflowsmartweather:tempest:HB-00041084:ST-00023261:humidity” }
I’m not sure why that particular item is not updating. Can you try creating a new item linked to that channel using the UI? I’m not very familiar with how items in config files get linked.
Hello Bill,
I linked now via the UI → it lokks like there are some values, but now in a different format.
Anyhow, my manual linking goes to the sane channel
Here the UI:
Any ideas why this is now different?
Update, it looks like, the linked item via the UI is working,
→ thanks for the hint.
Strange: This is the only channel which is not working as defined in the configuration file.
even it uses the same channel …
The humidity value also (sometimes) formats oddly for me; I haven’t found a good solution to the problem (though as a workaround you can supply formatting metadata to the item to get it to look better).
Beyond that, I’m not sure why you were having problems with items linked to that channel not updating specifically… there isn’t anything special about it compared to any of the others. I have found more generally that openhab sometimes gets confused internally and that recreating items will solve the problem.
Please do let me know if you have any questions or problems!
I can only suggest to have a look at this thread: OH 3 to OH 4 : most percentage values are now divided by 100
To sum up, for the foreseeable future, you MUST edit your items to set their unit to “%” instead of “one”.
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Hello obones,
thanks for the hint.
I could not find a setting for unit to set to %
maybe I missed something?
Hello Bill,
thanks again for the help.
It works now so no further topics open.
In case the manual linked channel is working again, I will let you know
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