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Yr weather plugin documentation


knuth

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The Yr weather plugin is listed in the HC2 interface as having the following properties, which may be used in scenes and VDs:

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Is there any documentation on how each of these properties is to be understood? My particular interest is in the variable "WeatherCondition", where I so far have picked up two values, "Clear" and "Cloudy". I would like to know the complete list of possible values for this variable. ConditionCode and ConditionCodeConverted seem to be related. What do they signify, and what are the codes?

 

More generally: Is documentation for the Yr weather plug-in available anywhere? 

 

PS: I contacted the Norwegian meteorological service, owners of the Yr service and yr.no, thinking that the weather condition terms used in the plug-in were their design. They answered promptly that the plug-in was Fibaro's responsibility, adding that Fibaro's use of the Yr brand name was "illegal". There has been a conflict on the use of the Yr service by Fibaro before. It seems this is not fully resolved yet. Please fix, before the service is denied once again!

 

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  • Thanks, @10der , that's a start. I assume that these are the values of the variable ConditionCode, not "WeatherCondition (ref the list I posted above). The funny thing is that when I use yrTxt = fibaro:getValue(<yr-id>, "WeatherCondition") the texts that are returned are not part of the same set. For instance, it will give yrTxt = "clear", not "Sun", and yrTxt="cloudy", not "Cloud". 

     

    I can of course switch to using ConditionCode, like you have, and generate my own texts or icons from there. But I am still curious: Does documentation for the Yr plug-in exist? The documentation link in api.met.no does not use the same list of variables as the plug-in. 

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  • Another test shows that the plug-in gives ConditionCode = ConditionCodeConverted = 26 for WeatherCondition = "cloudy". This indicates that, surprisingly, ConditionCode returned by the Yr plugin is the Yahoo symbol code and should be looked up in the Yahoo table:   

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    The texts returned (WeatherCondition) also seem to match the ones used by Yahoo. 

    This gives me what I need for now, but if anyone can provide a fuller documentation, please do.

     

    I am puzzled by a few of the matches done in the self.SymbolsMap shown by @10der . For instance: Yr #9 and #41 (LightRain and RainSun) are both linked to Yahoo #10 (freezing rain). Should it be Yahoo #9? And Yr #25 (RainThunderSun) is linked to Yahoo #46 (snow showers). Should it be Yahoo #45? There are a few more like this.To make such proof-reading easier, I have gathered all the texts and code numbers in an Excel sheet (

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    ). Here, the match between the Yr numbers and texts are taken from the Yr API documentation, while the match between the Yahoo numbers and and texts are taken from the Yahoo documentation. The Yr - >Yahoo transition is based on the table self.SymbolsMap shown above, including possible inaccuracies. The table may be sorted by any column. If matches are changed (e.g. Yr 9 -> Yahoo 9, not 10), the corresponding text need to be updated as well. 

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    @knuth  Sir. can you do analyse \opt\fibaro\plugins\com.fibaro.yrWeather\yrWeather.lua this file from latest FIBARO FW by itself :)

     

    thnak you, I am not a FIBARO dev, .thankfully (or not)

     

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    here is my code for grabbing Yr weeather

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    you can use it instead of using FIBARO.

     

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    btw

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    !!!!!

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  • Thanks, @10der. This is a little beyond what I was looking for. You seem to be grabbing Yr.no info directly from their web site. I was merely looking to decipher the variables and values available through the HC2 Yr plugin. I will look through the links you provided, though, to check that I have gotten it right. 

     

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    I'm trying to program my fibaro so it sets the ventilation and cooling in the house as a function on the weather outside (and not just the local temperature). i was trying to use the fibaro api to get this data, but i'm in the funny situation that i get code 28, which is supposed to be partially cloudy but the weather condition text says cloudy. and the weather condition converted doesn't return anything. 

     

    either of you have any idea if things have changed since you last looked into this? i know the yr forecast was offline for a while. and i've read other posts that yahoo is and weatherunderground is no longer available... 

     

    any help you can offer would be wildly appreciated!!!

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  • I can only add that I have implemented the decoding in a virtual device, where this is part of the code:

     

    local engTxt = fibaro:getValue (3"WeatherCondition")
    -- translate English "Yahoo texts" to Norwegian
    local weatherTxt={rain="regn",drizzle="yr",showers="regnbyger",snow="snø",sleet="sludd",foggy="tåke",cloudy="skyet",clear="klart",sunny="klart"}
    local norskTxt=weatherTxt[engTxt]
    if norskTxt==nil then norskTxt=engTxt end -- can't find the translation in weatherTxt

     

    Here, the first line gets the weather condition as a string from the Yr plugin, while lines 3 - 4 convert the result to Norwegian terms. The last line retains the English term if it is not found in my weatherTxt table (i.e. if it has returned a nil value), but so far this has not happened. 

    In conclusion, I am able to pick up relevant weather conditions from the Yr plug in. I do not use the code numbers, only the text. Good luck!

     
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  • I will stick with "WeatherCondition" (text) rather than "ConditionCode" (numerical), but that is a matter of preference. Thanks for sharing documentation and giving us several options, @10der . I hope this resolves @sahan.jenny 's problem as well.

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