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PranshulGG / WeatherMaster

A Weather app for android 🌦🌞☔
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Bring back OpenWeatherMap #155

Open ccrowles opened 2 days ago

ccrowles commented 2 days ago

Name of the provider

OpenWeatherMap

Reason for Request

None of the regional providers caters to Italy, and OpenMeteo is wildly inaccurate for Italy (and AccuWeather is inaccurate for my town). I stayed with this app until now because OpenWeatherMap (using my own API key) had the most accurate readings for my town (and because I see a lot of potential in this app + it's very cute) but as you can imagine there's no reason to keep an app that doesn't have a reliable weather provider for my location...

PranshulGG commented 2 days ago

@ccrowles Well, it never really had OpenWeatherMap so I'm not sure what do you mean by

I stayed with this app until now because OpenWeatherMap

unless you were using a version before 1.6.0. I’ll add support for OpenWeatherMap in the next update.

For now, you can use DWD Germany or ECMWF. They should work fine for Italy since most providers offer global or Europe-wide data.

ccrowles commented 1 day ago

@ccrowles Well, it never really had OpenWeatherMap so I'm not sure what do you mean by

I stayed with this app until now because OpenWeatherMap

unless you were using a version before 1.6.0.

If on October 21 we were on a version before 1.6.0, then yes. Because I have a video recorded on that day that shows that the app had that provider. I cannot share the video because it shows my private API, but here's two screenshots:

Screenshot_20241126-040158_Aves Screenshot_20241126-040335_Aves

I’ll add support for OpenWeatherMap in the next update.

Thank you so much!

For now, you can use DWD Germany or ECMWF. They should work fine for Italy since most providers offer global or Europe-wide data.

Unfortunately most providers, even specifically for Italy, are quite inaccurate for my location because the town I live in is split in half: one half on top of the hill, the other half at the very bottom of the hill. Most providers have only 1 weather station, specifically at the bottom of the hill, but I live at the top and the weather & temp tends to be very different from the bottom. OpenWeatherMap was one of the few that had weather stations for both halves.

PranshulGG commented 1 day ago

@ccrowles Let me clarify; I think that option confused some people.

Before version 1.6.0, the app allowed OpenWeatherMap to be used, but only for the main temperature displayed on the top card. Everything else was sourced from Open-Meteo because multiple providers weren’t fully supported at the time. So, it was only the temperature that came from OpenWeatherMap.

Yes, I will add OpenWeatherMap as a full provider, but you were still using Open-Meteo for all of the data, with only the main temperature coming from OpenWeatherMap.

Hope this clears things up!

ccrowles commented 1 day ago

Oooh yeah then I got confused too, thanks for explaining!