Weather binding again

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@oleg

To make weather works, you have to delete conf/services/weather.cfg file and make all the settings under weather.config file

This isn’t right. While I’m sure it fixed the problem, you should be editing the .cfg file in your conf folder, not the config file in userdata directly. That file is intended to be created and managed by OH itself.

@RayMYP

As I understand it that is the ‘primary’ place to change and deploy files with settings, so in there I put my:

That is correct.

@RayMYP

Without examining the source code I can’t comment if ‘/conf/services/weather.config’ would happen to be picked up

It wouldn’t be. Only files that end in .cfg get picked up from conf/services.

I’ll close with, unless you are tied to OWM for some reason, there is a 2.x Wunderground binding and I show how to pull Wunderground data directly using the HTTP binding here:

Comprehensive Wunderground using HTTP Binding Example

WARNING: Wunderground has eliminated their free API keys. If you already have an API key it will still work for some unknown amount of time but if you don’t already have a key this tutorial will not work for you. This tutorial will illustrate how I currently use the HTTP binding to get weather information from Wunderground, bypassing the various weather bindings which, if the postings on the forum are any indication, are a bit flakey and provide incomplete information. You could apply this to o…