[SOLVED] Weatherflow Smart Weather Station binding

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I made an attempt to sync the binding with the latest API specification. I uploaded a new binary jar but it is untested, so I recommend keeping the old version in case it blows up. :slight_smile:

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Ok, HUB is responding, but cannot add AIR
ALso I get:
2018-03-10 19:43:11.692 [WARN ] [ather.handler.SmartWeatherHubHandler] - device status but not for us.
2018-03-10 19:43:11.696 [WARN ] [ather.handler.SmartWeatherHubHandler] - device status but not for us.
2018-03-10 19:43:11.806 [WARN ] [ather.handler.SmartWeatherHubHandler] - air observation but not for us.
2018-03-10 19:43:11.809 [WARN ] [ather.handler.SmartWeatherHubHandler] - air observation but not for us.

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Ah, It seems I didnā€™t update the device discovery service to look for the new message types. I uploaded a version that should fix that. I will try to upgrade my firmware this weekend so that I can actually verify things are working before I upload any more updates!

Bill

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I can confirm that auto-discovery is working with v30 (I donā€™t have the option to install 35).

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I think you may have been updated to v37. Check and see your version.

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@hww3 Can you confirm your Hub has v37 firmware?

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Hi @GaryFunk,

I just checked and my hub is at v30. Itā€™s on a network without internet access, so I had to move it manually last weekend to do the update. Are versions made available on a piecemeal basis? Do people automatically get beta versions or do you have to opt in?

Bill

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HI, Bill (@hww3)

V37 is release firmware. It was and is being pushed out to all Hubs. And it solves many issues.

Gary

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Iā€™m out of town for a few days but will attempt an update this weekend. I think the OpenHAB binding is up to date with these changes.

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Hey all, I am very excited to order a sky sensor hopefully in some days, when they are rolling out the new sensor. Is this binding already available? Thanks a lot for the great work so far!!!

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Hi, the binding is available and works pretty good at this stage, however it is still in continuous development/testing phase. We are all waiting for our Skyā€™s in order to verify if it works appropriately with it. Then there will be required more test and the binding will be hopefully released shortly officially.

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Hi,

The binding is available and supports the Hub and Air sensors. The latest version is available from a link earlier in this message thread. I began laying the ground work to support the Sky sensor but I think itā€™s almost certain that additional effort will be required to make it work properly.

My Sky is currently making its way through the terminal at Hong Kong International airportā€¦ probably be about a week before it arrives. I will be out of town until mid-June, but getting the binding working with the Sky is a top priority upon my return. Iā€™d conservatively estimate that the binding should support the Sky by the end of June (but hopefully before then!)

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Bill, are you from Weatherflow? My feedback would be for Weatherflow to support MQTT - it would make the need for a specific binding redundant for many OpenHAB users.

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Hi,

Iā€™m an independent user unaffiliated with Weatherflow, though I can tell you that the Hub does use MQTT to communicate with the Weatherflow cloud service.

While I do like MQTT, I think that having a native binding provides a better out of the box experience, especially for less technically savvy folks.

If someone wanted to have a go at integrating without a native binding, Iā€™m pretty sure the way to go would be to listen to the UDP broadcasts from the Hub using the TCP/UDP binding, and then use a transformation to get the data out of the JSON data being broadcast.

Bill

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Hi All,

I received my Sky and spent some time last night adding support for the new observations supplied by this sensor package. You can download the latest build here:

https://bitbucket.org/hww3/org.openhab.binding.weatherflowsmartweather/downloads/org.openhab.binding.weatherflowsmartweather-2.3.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

It seems to work properly for me; I look forward to hearing from others! Note: youā€™ll need to be running Openhab 2.3.0 to use this without getting random errors.

Some to do items:

  • support the Rain start, Rapid wind and Lighting strike events. I still am unsure the best way to represent these messages; perhaps as a generic JSON events channel that others can then listen to and update their UIs as desired?

  • Iā€™d also like to add support of the new units framework in Openhab 2.3. No eta on this but itā€™s near the top of my list.

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Thanks Bill. Iā€™ve just upgraded and my Sky observations seem to be coming in fine.

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Okay, so Iā€™ve just had some nice heavy showers but only the rain_accumulated item is being updated, not the local_day_rain_accumulation item:

2018-06-19 12:45:27.867 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - weatherflowsmartweather_sky_HB_00001121_SK_00011302_rain_accumulated changed from 0.0 to 0.009579
2018-06-19 12:46:27.926 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - weatherflowsmartweather_sky_HB_00001121_SK_00011302_rain_accumulated changed from 0.009579 to 0.016071
2018-06-19 12:47:27.867 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - weatherflowsmartweather_sky_HB_00001121_SK_00011302_rain_accumulated changed from 0.016071 to 0.003801
2018-06-19 12:48:27.849 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - weatherflowsmartweather_sky_HB_00001121_SK_00011302_rain_accumulated changed from 0.003801 to 4.066342
2018-06-19 12:49:28.015 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - weatherflowsmartweather_sky_HB_00001121_SK_00011302_rain_accumulated changed from 4.066342 to 2.570136
2018-06-19 12:50:27.807 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - weatherflowsmartweather_sky_HB_00001121_SK_00011302_rain_accumulated changed from 2.570136 to 1.006456
2018-06-19 12:51:27.829 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - weatherflowsmartweather_sky_HB_00001121_SK_00011302_rain_accumulated changed from 1.006456 to 0.150633
2018-06-19 12:52:27.759 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - weatherflowsmartweather_sky_HB_00001121_SK_00011302_rain_accumulated changed from 0.150633 to 0.04064
2018-06-19 12:53:27.768 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - weatherflowsmartweather_sky_HB_00001121_SK_00011302_rain_accumulated changed from 0.04064 to 0.121903
2018-06-19 12:54:27.734 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - weatherflowsmartweather_sky_HB_00001121_SK_00011302_rain_accumulated changed from 0.121903 to 0.385776
2018-06-19 12:55:27.793 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - weatherflowsmartweather_sky_HB_00001121_SK_00011302_rain_accumulated changed from 0.385776 to 0.313365
2018-06-19 12:56:27.791 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - weatherflowsmartweather_sky_HB_00001121_SK_00011302_rain_accumulated changed from 0.313365 to 0.101144
2018-06-19 12:57:27.785 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - weatherflowsmartweather_sky_HB_00001121_SK_00011302_rain_accumulated changed from 0.101144 to 0.013289
2018-06-19 12:58:27.666 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - weatherflowsmartweather_sky_HB_00001121_SK_00011302_rain_accumulated changed from 0.013289 to 0.021957
2018-06-19 12:59:27.688 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - weatherflowsmartweather_sky_HB_00001121_SK_00011302_rain_accumulated changed from 0.021957 to 0.025707
2018-06-19 13:00:27.646 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - weatherflowsmartweather_sky_HB_00001121_SK_00011302_rain_accumulated changed from 0.025707 to 0.00955
2018-06-19 13:01:27.704 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - weatherflowsmartweather_sky_HB_00001121_SK_00011302_rain_accumulated changed from 0.00955 to 0.016617
2018-06-19 13:02:27.633 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - weatherflowsmartweather_sky_HB_00001121_SK_00011302_rain_accumulated changed from 0.016617 to 0.007092
2018-06-19 13:03:27.644 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - weatherflowsmartweather_sky_HB_00001121_SK_00011302_rain_accumulated changed from 0.007092 to 0.003274
2018-06-19 13:04:27.700 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - weatherflowsmartweather_sky_HB_00001121_SK_00011302_rain_accumulated changed from 0.003274 to 0.0

Iā€™m assuming this is something that is calculated by the binding as itā€™s not reported by the UDP API.

Also, what is precipitation type item as itā€™s not in the UDP API either and I didnā€™t see it set or updated during this rain event?

Thanks!

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I found the answer to my first question here - https://community.weatherflow.com/t/udp-accumulated-rain-field-11-null/342

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Yes, the data for all of the observation fields is exactly as reported by the UDP API. Iā€™ve got a separate binding (weather calculations) that handles derived values. I havenā€™t really thought about what derived data might be interesting for the Skyā€¦ itā€™s currently mostly things like wind chill and such.

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I think the precipitation type field may be new; it is listed in the v47 UDP API docs. Is it populating for you?