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Yes, it works fine. There is a minor issue with rain indication from the web API in my location but I’m working to have my own accurate rain sensor and integrate it to the solution.

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Due to issues with rain indication from Open Weather API I’ve installed a rain sensor with tasmota
Any user that has the same issue with API?

an up to date Wiki with local rain sensor
wiki-look for local rain sensor

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Hey Hanoh et al,

Great to see this - thanks. I have a relatively simple question.

I installed a while ago (Nov?) but never got around to setting it up properly. I’m getting an odd error:

Invalid config for [wb_irrigation]: invalid latitude for dictionary value @ data['wb_irrigation']['latitude']. Got 144.892581. (See /config/configuration.yaml, line 130).

Line 130 contains my latitude:


wb_irrigation:
  api_key: !secret openweather_api_key
  rain_factor: 90
  max_ev: 3000
  min_ev: -1500.0
  name: "wb_irrigation"
  debug: true
  longitude: !secret accurate_longitude
  latitude: !secret accurate_latitude
  elevation: !secret accurate_elevation
  taps:
#    - name: switch.back_lawn_sprinkler
#    - name: switch.front_lawn_sprinkler
    - name: switch.side_garden_sprinkler

You can see from the error message that my latitude is 144.892581 which I’ve checked and re-checked on google and other sites (although perhaps I have it wrong).

What am I doing wrong?

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you are mixing latitude and longitude
latitude = vol.All(
vol.Coerce(float), vol.Range(min=-90, max=90), msg=“invalid latitude”
)
longitude = vol.All(
vol.Coerce(float), vol.Range(min=-180, max=180), msg=“invalid longitude”
)

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see my last wiki on the openweather_api_key, the rain sensor does not work for me anymore, so I’ve added a way to add external sensor

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Thank-you @hhaim. Such a stupid mistake - I just assumed the order that the example I’d copied was lat, long - didn’t even read it. Much appreciated.

Re openweather - one thing at a time for beginners like me :smiley: I did see the post, luckily I have a weather station on my roof so I presume I’ll be ok on that front. I’ll just need to figure that out.

One question I do have is regarding installation. It looks like the code structure has changed completely - am I missing something. I’m looking to download from GitHub - hhaim/hass: home assistant and appdaemon scripts and configuration file, but I don’t see what I’d expect to see. The instructions Weather based irrigation · hhaim/hass Wiki · GitHub say to clone the project (which I think I did previously), but if I do that I won’t have the init.py which I need, right?

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@colebatchd I’ve updated the wiki (code location was moved)
local weather station is supported so you can provide the rain sensor name

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Thanks - much appreciated.

Up to the AppDaemon part now. I’m more than happy to make a write-up when I finish from a newbie’s perspective.

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@colebatchd
I would test it first on your garden for a few weeks