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Sprinkling System Control Program for the Raspberry Pi
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add weather forecast source from weatherbit.io #186

Open gargamelonly opened 2 years ago

gargamelonly commented 2 years ago

Since I see that Openweather has become unstable in the last couple of months I would like to change to use an alternate free weather API source. The API documentation is available here: https://www.weatherbit.io/api

I assume we will need the default 48 hour forecast for sprinklers_pi, right? Here is the API format documentation: https://www.weatherbit.io/api/weather-forecast-120-hour

Or do we need the 16 day forecast? https://www.weatherbit.io/api/weather-forecast-16-day

nhorvath commented 2 years ago

aeris is free and works fine, please use that as looking into this will not be a near term project unless someone volunteers to do it. We need yesterday's weather and today's forecasts.

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Since I see that Openweather has become unstable in the last couple of months I would like to change to use an alternate free weather API source. The API documentation is available here: https://www.weatherbit.io/api

I assume we will need the default 48 hour forecast for sprinklers_pi, right? Here is the API format documentation: https://www.weatherbit.io/api/weather-forecast-120-hour

Or do we need the 16 day forecast? https://www.weatherbit.io/api/weather-forecast-16-day

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gargamelonly commented 2 years ago

I could not see it has a free option, only a 30 day trial. I created an account and it is valid only until end of October.

nhorvath commented 2 years ago

If you sign up for the dev key it doesn't actually expire. You used to have to "renew" it for free every 30 days but i haven't in a year at least.

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I could not see it has a free option, only a 30 day trial.

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nhorvath commented 2 years ago

Correction, it was every 2 months, I'm also signed up for weather widgets which is for lifetime (also free) maybe that's why I don't have to renew my dev key anymore.

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If you sign up for the dev key it doesn't actually expire. You used to have to "renew" it for free every 30 days but i haven't in a year at least.

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gargamelonly commented 2 years ago

How do I update the weather provider without resetting the existing schedule configuration?

nhorvath commented 2 years ago

backup your /etc/local/sprinkers_pi just in case, but it should just work if you recompile with different weather options. You'll have to change the settings for weather once you start it.

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How do I update the weather provider without resetting the existing schedule configuration?

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