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n0bel / PiClock

A Fancy Clock built around a monitor and a Raspberry Pi
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Reduce Number of Calls to Dark Sky #146

Closed Impchucker closed 5 years ago

Impchucker commented 5 years ago

I changed over to Dark Sky two days ago, and I notice that I'm calling Dark Sky 48 times per day. At that rate, I'll easily exceed the 1,000 free calls per month. I'm trying to keep it free, so I would like to drop that to 32 calls per day. I'm out of practice coding this thing so I would appreciate any help y'all could give in achieving that. Or, is this something that will ruin my weather feed and I need to suck it up and pay?

BertLindeman commented 5 years ago

I think you are incorrect about "1000 free calls per month" From DarkSky FAQ web page

How much does it cost to use the Dark Sky Forecast API?

You get 1,000 API calls for free each day. 
After that, we prorate each additional call at a rate of $0.0001 per call. 
The counter resets every day at midnight UTC. 
As long as you make fewer than 1,000 calls each day, the API is free.

If you still want to lower the weather update frequency, it's in your Config.py: I am using weather_refresh = 45 # minutes

Impchucker commented 5 years ago

Wow! I should have read more carefully. You are totally right. The dangers of reading before coffee are real. Thank you!