Wunderground API is dead

[Privacywonk]

MMM_Surf relied on Wunderground for current weather data:

Per announcement (boooooo) https://apicommunity.wunderground.com/weatherapi/topics/end-of-service-for-the-weather-underground-api the service has come to an end.

MMM-Surf has been migrated to Dark Sky's API service for current weather.

To-Do:

• Update instructions to reflect needs for DarkySky
• Clean up config.js, MMM-Surf.js, and node_helper.js to remove all legacy wunderground code.

[Privacywonk]

Additional API Access to consider...Accuweather has the highest accuracy out of the bunch but has a very limited number of API calls.

AccuWeather API: https://www.developer.accuweather.com/packages AerisWeather API: https://www.aerisweather.com/signup/pricing/ Dark Sky API: https://darksky.net/dev/docs Open Weather Map API: https://www.openweathermap.org/price

[Privacywonk]

Moon Phases:

• Moved moon phases over to weather icons v. Wunderground images.
• Dark Sky returned a decimal for the moon phase 0-0.99. Created a function to map this to the available moon phase icons:

 moon_icon: function(moon_phase) {  
    if (moon_phase >= 0 && moon_phase < 0.036) {  
            return "wi-moon-new";  
    } else if (moon_phase >= 0.036 && moon_phase < 0.071) {  
            return "wi-moon-waxing-crescent-1";  
    } else if (moon_phase >= 0.71 && moon_phase < 0.107) {  
            return "wi-moon-waxing-crescent-2";  
    } else if (moon_phase >= 0.107 && moon_phase < 0.143) {  
            return "wi-moon-waxing-crescent-3";  
    } else if (moon_phase >= 0.143 && moon_phase < 0.179) {  
            return "wi-moon-waxing-crescent-4";  
    } else if (moon_phase >= 0.179 && moon_phase < 0.214) {  
            return "wi-moon-waxing-crescent-5";  
    } else if (moon_phase >= 0.214 && moon_phase < 0.250) {  
            return "wi-moon-waxing-crescent-6";  
    } else if (moon_phase >= 0.250 && moon_phase < 0.286) {  
            return "wi-moon-first-quarter";  
    } else if (moon_phase >= 0.286 && moon_phase < 0.321) {  
            return "wi-moon-waxing-gibbous-1";  
    } else if (moon_phase >= 0.321 && moon_phase < 0.357) {  
            return "wi-moon-waxing-gibbous-2";  
    } else if (moon_phase >= 0.357 && moon_phase < 0.393) {  
            return "wi-moon-waxing-gibbous-3";  
    } else if (moon_phase >= 0.393 && moon_phase < 0.429) {  
            return "wi-moon-waxing-gibbous-4";  
    } else if (moon_phase >= 0.429 && moon_phase < 0.464) {  
            return "wi-moon-waxing-gibbous-5";  
    } else if (moon_phase >= 0.464 && moon_phase < 0.500) {  
            return "wi-moon-waxing-gibbous-6";  
    } else if (moon_phase >= 0.500 && moon_phase < 0.536) {  
            return "wi-moon-full";  
    } else if (moon_phase >= 0.536 && moon_phase < 0.571) {  
            return "wi-moon-waning-gibbous-1";  
    } else if (moon_phase >= 0.571 && moon_phase < 0.607) {  
            return "wi-moon-waning-gibbous-2";  
    } else if (moon_phase >= 0.607 && moon_phase < 0.643) {  
            return "wi-moon-waning-gibbous-3";  
    } else if (moon_phase >= 0.643 && moon_phase < 0.679) {  
            return "wi-moon-waning-gibbous-4";  
    } else if (moon_phase >= 0.679 && moon_phase < 0.714) {  
            return "wi-moon-waning-gibbous-5";  
    } else if (moon_phase >= 0.714 && moon_phase < 0.750) {  
            return "wi-moon-waning-gibbous-6";  
    } else if (moon_phase >= 0.750 && moon_phase < 0.786) {  
            return "wi-moon-third-quarter";  
    } else if (moon_phase >= 0.786 && moon_phase < 0.821) {  
            return "wi-moon-waning-crescent-1";  
    } else if (moon_phase >= 0.821 && moon_phase < 0.857) {  
            return "wi-moon-waning-crescent-2";  
    } else if (moon_phase >= 0.857 && moon_phase < 0.893) {  
            return "wi-moon-waning-crescent-3";  
    } else if (moon_phase >= 0.893 && moon_phase < 0.929) {  
            return "wi-moon-waning-crescent-4";  
    } else if (moon_phase >= 0.929 && moon_phase < 0.964) {  
            return "wi-moon-waning-crescent-5";  
    } else if (moon_phase >= 0.964 && moon_phase < 1.000) {  
            return "wi-moon-waning-crescent-6";  
    } else {  
            return "out-of-bounds";  
    }
 },

[PierreLeoFerreira]

Good day. I find your Module really interesting as I live in a small surf town in South Africa. I would really like to use your module. Are you still planning on changing to available weather services?

[Privacywonk]

Yes! I haven't pushed code changes (testing locally) but I have switched over to DarkSky for weather, which should bring in South Africa.

However, Tide and Water data is still pegged to NOAA (US centric). Does your govt have any published buoy data?

[PierreLeoFerreira]

I've been looking but unfortunately not been able to find or get easy free access to Buoy Data.

I am but still a noob.

[michaelr747]

Hey there, Am really keen to get your module up and running, got API from Magic Seaweed (awesome people) am struggling a bit with the to do, any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks Michael

To-Do: Update instructions to reflect needs for DarkySky Clean up config.js, MMM-Surf.js, and node_helper.js to remove all legacy wunderground code.

[Privacywonk]

@michaelr747 - Happy holidays! Thanks to having some down time, I've been able to update the code base to use DarkSky. Please take a fresh pull from the master branch.

[Privacywonk]

@michaelr747 I see from your location on Github you're in .AU. Currently tides and water temps are tied to a very US-centric data source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. I have yet to find easily consumable data (ideally free) from non US countries...if you're aware of anything in .AU we can use, please let me know.