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Sprinkling System Control Program for the Raspberry Pi
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Apple Acquires Weather App Dark Sky #159

Closed gargamelonly closed 4 years ago

gargamelonly commented 4 years ago

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/03/31/apple-acquires-weather-app-dark-sky/

Dark Sky says its API service for existing customers is not changing, but new signups will no longer be accepted. The API will work through the end of 2021, but after that time, developers will need to find another solution.

I know this is in the future but in any case, is there an existing free alternative to Dark Sky service?

nhorvath commented 4 years ago

This sucks. Aeris works but you have to renew the free account every 3 months.

gargamelonly commented 4 years ago

Can we have support added for 2 more free weather API options ? Yahoo: https://developer.yahoo.com/weather/ openweather: https://openweathermap.org/price

fabm78 commented 4 years ago

or the Netatmo API (ideally, both for public data and personal weather stations) https://dev.netatmo.com/apidocumentation/weather

nhorvath commented 4 years ago

I've already explained why netamo is not feasible because there's no yesterday data. Open weather map may be possible but I don't have time to implement a new provider right now.

Andy-Be commented 4 years ago

First of all, i want to thank you for the great work! Through sprinklers_pi I was able to reactivate my greenIQ.

It would be very cool if the open weather API would work someday because there is currently no free or cheap way to get weather data with sprinklers_pi.

In Austria/Europe the network of stations in open weather seems to be very good as far as I can see! Even in my little village, there is a Station.

But it also works fine without weather data right now.

Anyway, thanks! Best Andreas

nhorvath commented 4 years ago

@Andy-Be to be clear you're talking about https://openweathermap.org/ correct? That will probably be the next API I try to get working when I have time.

gargamelonly commented 4 years ago

Some clues are already provided in their site: https://openweather.co.uk/blog/post/how-migrate-dark-sky-api-openweather-one-call-api

nhorvath commented 4 years ago

@gargamelonly thank you very much for that. this is very helpful!

gargamelonly commented 4 years ago

This link is more specific: https://openweathermap.org/darksky-openweather

Andy-Be commented 4 years ago

@nhorvath Yes, https://openweathermap.org/.

This"new" one call API looks good: Current weather, hourly forecast for 48 hours, daily forecast for 7 days, historical data for 5 previous days for any location.

https://openweathermap.org/api/one-call-api

Best

Andreas

nhorvath commented 4 years ago

Added OpenWeather: https://github.com/rszimm/sprinklers_pi/releases enjoy! Please open seperate issues if you find any bugs.