replace Dark Sky with another weather API provider

mrjones-plip / YANPIWS

Yet Another Pi Weather Station (YANPIWS) - Use wireless sensors and Pirate Weather to show local temperatures and forecast

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replace Dark Sky with another weather API provider #69

Closed mrjones-plip closed 11 months ago

mrjones-plip commented 4 years ago

Now that Dark Sky isn't taking new sign ups (and will be closing the API entirely in ~18 mo), we should work with another API provider. Some candidates are:

we should pick one that works and go with it! Requirements are:

get forecast with 5-7 days
forecast should have
- hi temp
- low temp
- wind speed
- 1 - 2 word description to match to icon
- humidity
get detailed forecast for current day
get today's sunset sunrise
moar? we should look at darksky

open-meteo commented 3 years ago

Creator of open-meteo here

I would be happy to support you in the implementation. Let me know if you need additional weather variables or having issues with the implementation. Just yesterday I finished the implementation of daily weather variables with sunrise and sunset time.

Best, Jeff

mrjones-plip commented 3 years ago

@open-meteo - So nice of you stop by our lil' project and offer to help out - thank you!

I'll be sure to keep you posted here if we have any questions (and am happy to open formal feature requests in the correct location if need be!)

mrjones-plip commented 1 year ago

I see that pirateweather.net offers:

An unprocessed weather forecast API, built to be fully Dark Sky compatible.

so it should be a drop in replacement.

mrjones-plip commented 1 year ago

@open-meteo - Does open-meteo.com have an API that returns the same response format as Dark Sky and Pirate Weather? Ideally it'd match the URL pattern as well, but I can likely work around that.

mrjones-plip commented 11 months ago

with #99 PR and 0.10.0 release, this issue is fixed