Another observation. this might be related to the way the weather company handles the PWS data and the resolution they provide or some mistaken setting after change to the new API on my side.
t seems, that the weather company provide data with 0.5C increment only.
as seen in this graph of the last 7 days of temperature here in Sweden. on the left the data with the Wunderground API (small increment) and on the right the data from weather company API
Yes, 0.5C and 1.0F increments. Iāve already seen a few complaints about that on the Wx forums.
Ah, I see now. Itās actually worse than that. All units are Imperial (temp, wind speed, etc.) in the fields that can be translated to local language. I had not anticipated that they would translate the words but not the units. Iāll need to think a bit about how to handle this.
Oh wow - now I see the post on the WX forum
quite a crazy move from weather company to cull all decimals from the data. It doesnāt make sense for values in Celsius at all. And why? to safe bandwidth or storage?
Thing Status quickly changes from Online to to āStatus: OFFLINE - COMMUNICATION_ERROR HTTP GET failed: 204, No Contentā. Any thoughts what could be the issue?
14:44:17.077 [DEBUG] [nternal.handler.WeatherCompanyHandler] - Handler: Requesting PWS observations from The Weather Company API
14:44:17.273 [DEBUG] [nternal.handler.WeatherCompanyHandler] - Handler: Forecast refresh failed. Setting thing OFFLINE: HTTP GET failed: 204, No Content
14:44:17.273 [INFO ] [ome.event.ThingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - āweathercompany:weather:localā changed from ONLINE to OFFLINE (COMMUNICATION_ERROR): HTTP GET failed: 204, No Content
14:44:17.274 [DEBUG] [nternal.handler.WeatherCompanyHandler] - HTTP GET failed: 204, No Content
14:44:17.274 [DEBUG] [nternal.handler.WeatherCompanyHandler] - Handler: Received null response to request
Sorry for not answering sooner. I have the WS-1401-IP. It has all the data elements supported by ambientweather.net. The downside is that the gateway device that talks to the sensor array, and uploads data to WU and ambientweather.net, is a bit flaky and needs to be restarted every now and then. Otherwise Iām very happy with it.
A friend of mine is a big fan of Acurite weather centers and has offered me a discount code which will provide a great savings. Your new binding pulls from WU correct? So as long as it updates WU I could feasibly use any brand??? Would I lose anything by not having an ambient weather center?