ebnerjoh
(Johannes Ebner)
June 1, 2018, 5:47pm
1
Hi,
Is there anyone else for whom the WUnderground Precip Sensor (sensor.pws_precip_today_metric) is not working anymore correctly?
Since 30. May 00:00 Central European Summer Time it is not working anymore. I get mostly no value, just --
The Graph looks like this:
Br,
Johannes
Mine seems to be working fine.
What do you see on the WUnderground website directly for this station?
https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=ID_GOES_HERE
Do the temperature and wind speed graphs show a similarly interrupted line?
ebnerjoh
(Johannes Ebner)
June 1, 2018, 7:48pm
3
The others are all fine:
And also the Precip on WUnderground looks ok.
klogg
(Klogg)
June 1, 2018, 10:22pm
5
Thanks.
Yes mine is all over the place. We’ve had no rain recently so the graph is kind of right but what is it with the broken lines? And almost always it shows ‘- mm’
EDIT: I just checked the website and the weather station I’m using is currently not reporting. I guess that can’t help!!
I’ll go back to using my lat and lon and see what happens.
nickrout
(Nick Rout)
June 2, 2018, 2:45am
6
Wunderground are getting rid of their free API and there are people all over their forums moaning about the service lately. A new API key (cheapest) is $850 per month.
I say f*** them. Bastards have built a business on other people’s data and now won’t even give a free API key to the people they built their business on.
https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?PHPSESSID=fd61175025b0ec8f6515378ff1a3eaac&topic=34403.0
And
Weather Underground as part of The Weather Company, an IBM business, now offers a series of Data Packages that tap into the breadth and depth of weather data to provide current and forecast conditions, seasonal and sub-seasonal forecasts, lifestyle...
ebnerjoh
(Johannes Ebner)
June 2, 2018, 4:10am
7
Thats really bad, bought my ventus W830 just this year…
Any idea if HA is also supporting WheatherCloud or WheatherBug or uf I could send it to my own server?
Br,
Johannes
nickrout
(Nick Rout)
June 2, 2018, 4:14am
8
Yeah i bought a station and haven’t even set it up yet! (It is sitting next to me on the desk now)
The supported weather components are listed here
I am tending to think openweathermap looks pretty good.
klogg
(Klogg)
June 2, 2018, 7:04am
9
Yes OpenWeatherMap looks good but I don’t believe the HA component taps into as much data as it could:
I know there is already a component for OWM but it only returns forecast weather.
There are at least a few of us on here who have worked on garden irrigation systems and at least a few more who are re-using those projects.
Automating based on rainfall has proved (as far as I can tell) near on impossible unless you have an actual rain gauge.
The OWM api allows ‘Current weather Data’ to be collected (https://openweathermap.org/current ) one element of which is actual rainfall for the last 3 hour…