Forecast creates update with invalid data if result.list contains no data for forecast data range

[mwittig]

In my case the the result only contain a single foreceast record for today! See also forum thread http://forum.pimatic.org/topic/679/pimatic-openweather-openweatherforecastdevice-receives-wrong-data

[mwittig]

@josecastroleon and @sweetpi Why do we use forcecast5 rather than forecast16? Openweathermap support both, see openweathermap.daily

[n3roGit]

Maybe i have the same problem: https://github.com/pimatic/pimatic/issues/688

[sweetpi]

@mwittig Didn't know about it, is it save to just replace the name?

[mwittig]

@sweetpi No, it is a different service interface. See (Call 16 day / daily forecast data) http://openweathermap.org/forecast16 versus (Call 5 day / 3 hour forecast data) http://openweathermap.org/forecast5

I'll implement a Forecast16 device based on Pazzies code so we can trial it.

[mwittig]

@sweetpi - See https://github.com/mwittig/pimatic-openweather/tree/development-forecast16

I have added the OpenWeatherForecast16Device for testing purposes (branch: development-forecast16)

[Nears]

Hi, i just updated my pimatic and its plugins. The openweather plugin version is now 0.8.14.

According to https://github.com/mwittig/pimatic-openweather/tree/development-forecast16 the forecast16 has exactly this problem solved and the version name is 0.8.14.

As it is currently not well documented I changed my config.json from

    {
      "class": "OpenWeatherForecastDevice",
    .....

to

    {
      "class": "OpenWeatherForecast16Device",
    .....

But after starting pimatic, the log tells me:

[pimatic] no plugin found for device "forecast" of class "OpenWeatherForecast16Device"!

Is there anything else to do?

[mwittig]

@Nears My fork is currently not part of the published package. To temporarily install my fork you can do as follows (assuming installation on Raspbian):

sudo service pimatic stop
cd /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/ 
sudo rm -rf ./pimatic-openweather
git clone https://github.com/mwittig/pimatic-openweather.git
git checkout development-forecast
cd pimatic-openweather
npm install
sudo service pimatic start

To rollback to the released version at a later stage:

sudo service pimatic stop
cd /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/ 
sudo rm -rf ./pimatic-openweather
npm install pimatic-openweather
sudo service pimatic start

[Nears]

Thanks for your reply. But why is the new version already available in the pimatic webfrontend as new version/update?

[mwittig]

No, not yet. Due to the holiday season things are progressing slowly. I have not received much feedback on Forecast16 yet. If you are able to give it a try I'll highly appreciate this.

[Nears]

Well I tried it and a see data points now! But I "installed" it by editing the sourcecode files of the mainline.

The only thing I see beeing wrong is that the ° characters are not displayed correctly in the pimatic web frontend. (It works for the live temperature of this plugin)

PS: I only saw the new version because it was listed in the webfrontend! Even if you didn't publish it yet.

[mwittig]

awaiting release