AccuWeather to discontinue free access to Core Weather API

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https://developer.accuweather.com/new-portal

Important update: new portal launch & changes to free limited trial

AccuWeather is excited to share important updates coming this summer to the AccuWeather API Developer Portal, which is designed to elevate your experience and ensure you get the most from our industry-leading weather data.

What is Changing?

To better support your development needs, AccuWeather is introducing a more powerful and streamlined platform, along with updated subscription options to suit every stage of your journey:

Discontinuation of Free Limited Trial Packages

AccuWeather’s current Free Limited Trials for Core Weather and MinuteCast® will be retired with the new portal launch.

Introducing New 14-Day Free Trials

Experience the full value of our APIs with an all-new 14-Day Core Weather Trial (up to 500 API calls/day) and 14-Day MinuteCast® Trial (up to 50 calls/day), including all API endpoints available for testing.

New Low-Cost Starter Package

Once your trial ends, you can keep building with our affordable Starter package, which offers essential API access at a competitive monthly rate.

Enhanced Account Security

To best protect your data and improve overall security, existing users on Standard, Prime, Elite, or MinuteCast® packages will be prompted to reset their passwords at launch. Thank you for helping us maintain a secure and reliable environment.

What to Expect

As AccuWeather approaches the launch, we will provide step-by-step guidance on migrating your account, selecting a new plan, and maximizing the benefits of the updated portal. We remain committed to delivering the tools and data you rely on — with a seamless, modernized experience to match.

Any idea what the impact to the Home Assistant AccuWeather integration is?

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Accuweather needs to hear from those that use it!!!

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How much is this package?

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Someone posted $25/month on that other thread that @Sir_Goodenough linked to.

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That’s the current pricing. They mention a new plan.

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…but haven’t announced what that is, yet.

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Which was why I asked them since they posted here.

They’ve been reading the topic but not replying so I’m not expecting much.

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Why? If we do that then they’ll know how many users are desperate to keep using their service and they’ll double the price. :smile:

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That is actually funny!!!

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Just delete it now, if a bunch of people get off their API maybe they won’t have to change it.
Then if/when they do change it, forget they exist.

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They’re probably going to increase revenue and decrease load. Sounds like a win for them, though it’s not ideal for us.

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It would have been nice if you had given your post some context. It actually reads as if you are associated with the company.

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Why? There’s no upside for them. They’re not deriving any revenue from it (either directly or through advertising). There’s a few possibilities I could see that might make it worth their while…

  1. They bundle Home Assistant access with the Premium or Premium+ mobile app subscriptions. They perhaps gain a modest number of new app subscriptions.

  2. They cut a deal with Nabu Casa to include AccuWeather with a Home Assistant Cloud subscription. They gain a (smaller) fee for each user, but likely a very significantly greater number of users, without the hassle of individually billing and supporting a large number of users on a platform they don’t control.

Anything else that doesn’t generate recurring revenue for them (including offering it for free) is going to be a non-starter for them. Universal Devices went through similar headaches on their ISY994i platform with their one-time-fee climate module (Bye Bye Climate Module! - Universal Devices - News) and had to move to a subscription to be able to provide weather to their users.

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Yeah, I just received the email notification today.

I suppose in the short run, I’ll switch to OpenWeatherMap or NWS, and in the long run Weatherflow or my own local weather station plus local forecast. If I’m going to have to pay for weather data, I might as well get the benefit of owning it.

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A pitty, I especially liked how Accuweather provides sensors with verbal description of the weather in local language.

Will have a look at OpenWeatherMap now, open for suggestions if anyone has another good (free) alternative.

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switched to https://www.met.no , using the already existing integration.

still struggling tough with my ‘assist’.
So from this met.no there is a load of information like the current outside temperature, but I’m having a hard time getting this exposed so I could ‘ask’ for example: ‘what is the outside temperature’ to the assist pipeline…

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any ideas? The ‘vooruitzicht’ does show up in my exposed entries…

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Perplexity and chat gpt are pretty good a at writing sensors and automations. I found an integration for a local weather provider, perplexity helped me with the code to get the information I wanted out of the highly better nested data structure.

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looks like the crap has hit the wall, AW dev portal currently down, and api token access is being denied (for me).

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It’s down for me at the moment as well. That said it wouldn’t be the first time that the integration just wouldn’t start so I’ll keep my fingers crossed as I use some of the proprietary sensor values in my automations