What did you build/automated today (with pictures)?

[MDAR (Stuart Hanlon, UK importer of Velbus hardware)]

@rlkoshak

For some areas, Accuweather is more accurate than OpenWeatherMap or DarkSky and Wunderground has closed their free API.

Hi Rich

Do you remember that you helped with break apart a BBC weather RSS feed?

[SOLVED] BBC weather RSS Latest Title split to <64 characters for Velbus OLED (AKA Splitting Strings)

I wanted to be able to display a short string on the Velbus OLED panels that gave a description of the weather. (I’m sure that Cédric will add the Edge Lit Oled panels to the Velbus binding when his schedule permits.) I’ve managed to use a simple rule to copy “Now playing” information from music systems to the OLEDs of Velbus panels, but the weather is more of an issue because the BBC RSS feed can be longer than the 64 character limit of a Velbus panel. (Also it takes too long to scroll acro…

It looks like the BBC don’t only service the UK, so is it worth looking at that for “latest observations” & “3 day forecasts” in your area?

As an example, here’s the RSS URL for New York city.

https://weather-broker-cdn.api.bbci.co.uk/en/observation/rss/5128581

All the instructions for the BBC RSS service are here - RSS Feeds from BBC Weather - BBC Weather

All you need to do is get the number code from the end of the URL once you’ve searched for your area / location on this page - New York - BBC Weather