Weatherbit type=precipitation, property=rain not working?

Add-ons Bindings
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Hi there,

I recongnized that I never receive any value above 0 for the current rain amount using weatherbit.io (all other value are receiving values as expected).

Item configuration is
Number WeatherRain “Rain [%.2f mm/h]” (gWeather) {weather=“locationId=home, type=precipitation, property=rain”}

I checked the API directly with the example below
{“data”:[{“rh”:80,“pod”:“d”,“lon”:8.53333,“pres”:979.43,“timezone”:“Europe/Berlin”,“ob_time”:“2020-06-05 16:16”,“country_code”:“DE”,“clouds”:100,“ts”:1591373775,“solar_rad”:78.2525,“state_code”:“07”,“city_name”:“Bielefeld”,“wind_spd”:6.29415,“last_ob_time”:“2020-06-05T15:47:00”,“wind_cdir_full”:“west-southwest”,“wind_cdir”:“WSW”,“slp”:991.855,“vis”:24.135,“h_angle”:56.3,“sunset”:“19:40”,“dni”:669.37,“dewpt”:8.2,“snow”:0,“uv”:0.776824,“precip”:3.63158,“wind_dir”:240,“sunrise”:“03:11”,“ghi”:313.01,“dhi”:77.24,“aqi”:49,“lat”:52.03333,“weather”:{“icon”:“r01d”,“code”:“500”,“description”:“Light rain”},“datetime”:“2020-06-05:16”,“temp”:11.4,“station”:“E6958”,“elev_angle”:30.39,“app_temp”:11.4}],“count”:1}

And as you can see there is no item called “rain” but only “precip” that seems to contain the “rain” value (see also documentation https://www.weatherbit.io/api/weather-current).

My assumption is that the internal mapping of the item to the API-call does’t relect this. And there is no item property called “precip” (error is generated).

Anyone who could give an advice how to fix this issue?

Thanks
Thomas

2

Open an issue in GitHub, the binding developer will likely pick it up

3

Thanks, just created https://github.com/openhab/openhab-addons/issues/7865

4

I currently use a workaround with http binding and JSONPath transformation:
service/http.cfg:

configuration of the first cache item

weatherCurrent.url=https://api.weatherbit.io/v2.0/current?city=MyCity&country=DE&key=MyKey
weatherCurrent.updateInterval=1800000

configuration of the second cache item

weatherForecast.url=https://api.weatherbit.io/v2.0/forecast/daily?city=MyCity&country=DE&days=1&key=MyKey
weatherForecast.updateInterval=1800000

items:
Number WeatherRain {http="<[weatherCurrent:120000:JSONPATH($.data[0].precip)]" }
Number WeatherFCRain {http="<[weatherForecast:120000:JSONPATH($.data[0].precip)]" }
weatherForecast.updateInterval=1800000

5

Is there any way to progress this, it seems like a simple change, is there an easy way to modify the source in my own machine without going through all the setting up needed for developing a plugin?

I’ve updated the above issue with the problem (it’s a typo ‘percip’ instead of ‘precip’)