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Android Digital Photo Frame
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Other (better) Weather Services #131

Open andyfrei opened 4 years ago

andyfrei commented 4 years ago

Hey Can we make other weather services available to choose from? The current showed rain for my location for the past 3 days and the upcoming days but the sun is out and maybe some rain in two days, so clearly not suitable and reliable for this region...

Some others to integrate, maybe others have ideas too, better suitable for their regions: https://www.meteoblue.com https://developer.accuweather.com/ (I think 50/min are free) www.visualcrossing.com/weather-api

Or that specifically for Switzerland, not sure if free or not though: https://developer.srgssr.ch/apis/srgssr-weather

Cheers

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mvysny commented 4 years ago

Hi, thanks for letting me know :)

Meteoblue is unfortunately not free: https://content.meteoblue.com/nl/access-options/meteoblue-weather-api/pricing

mvysny commented 4 years ago

AccuWeather free package only offers 50 calls per day: https://developer.accuweather.com/packages

Unfortunately that's not suited for PhotoCloud: PhotoCloud updates the forecast every three or so hours, which means 8 calls per day per user, and with estimated 200 active users that would make 1600 calls per day.

mvysny commented 4 years ago

VisualCrossing offers 250 calls per day for free, which is actually quite good: https://www.visualcrossing.com/weather-data-editions#results-limits . For $25 per month they offer unlimited calls, which is awesome. Unfortunately PhotoCloud earns something around $100 per month, and paying for such service would eat quite a big chunk of that income.

Also I checked my location in VisualCrossing history - it was raining like crazy for the last week yet VisualCrossing reported no rain :-D Not sure about the accuracy.

At the present time earnings from PhotoCloud do not warranty paying for the Weather data. I'll leave this report opened though, should the situation change in the future.

mvysny commented 4 years ago

Or that specifically for Switzerland, not sure if free or not though: https://developer.srgssr.ch/apis/srgssr-weather

Since the app is distributed worldwide, adding per-country weather service would be too much effort.

andyfrei commented 4 years ago

Thank you for listening anyway, great effort!