Weather

[Skirge01]

Originally Posted by wayner

Does anyone pay for it? The free service is limited to 500 calls per day, isn't it?

http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/pricing.html

Shhhhhhhhh

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by Skirge01

Shhhhhhhhh

It is a valid question - don't want calls to start getting rejected. I'm guessing Stuckless only picked up a developer key for it, so yes, if it becomes a problem, it would likely be worth a tiny patreon or something to go with a larger key. I don't know if there is a way to view a key's activity or not.

[jusjoken]

I actually have the account and created the wunderground implementation in Phoenix. It is limited and I believe I have access to check on usage too...but I have not looked for a while.

k

[wayner]

Maybe Wunderground doesn't enforce the key unless you are really hammering their servers.

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by jusjoken

I actually have the account and created the wunderground implementation in Phoenix. It is limited and I believe I have access to check on usage too...but I have not looked for a while.

k

might be interesting to see how much traffic it's getting. I doubt there's much. Sage users are a small group currently. Those that use Gemstone are an even smaller group. Of those, the ones who have chosen wunderground instead of the default yahoo weather service are even smaller.

[jusjoken]

Slight correction....I guess it's been awhile since I went into the API and miss stated the above.

We built 3 implementations of weather in Phoenix and that's what Gemstone uses.

Yahoo! - this is a free API and fairly simple

World Weather Online - this is a Free API that I wrote a Phoenix implementation for and manage the key. I checked online and it says we have 13500 queries per day....5 per second. It's a free service so it provides no more info than that and it looks like that is average over the life of the key which was obtained in March 2013.

Wunderground - this is a wrapper of the Sage API that is a wrapper of the wunderground paid API. I assume Sage (Google) paid/pays for this service. Phoenix cannot/does not call the wunderground api directly but instead just calls the wrapper Opus wrote for Sage to use in the base product. This lets Phoenix/Gemstone to use this service too. I therefore have no access to check the number of calls and those would be blended with the Sage (non-Gemstone) users calls anyway.

Clear as mud now ;o)

k

[rnadeau]

I wish I had the time to tackle this. I taught myself basic programming 30 years ago. I know, don't laugh. Something tells me this would have a very steep learning curve, otherwise I would try it. I have my own api key so that part of it wouldn't be a problem.

I am currently using that key to gather weather info from my station from weather underground to use with homeseer. Works great.

[wayner]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

Okay, so I did some playing with this today. Gemstone simply passes the 'Location' setting as entered to the WUnderground API. Reading through the API, the way to get a specific personal weather station to be returned is to enter the location as pws:[STATIONID]. For my local station in Indian Hills, Riverside, CA, which is called KCARIVER32, if I enter the location in gemstone as:

pws:KCARIVER32

This setting appears to be set at the client (aka extender) level rather than the server level, is that correct? Because I seem to have to enter it on each extender in my house. It is a pain entering these locations using a remote control.

By the way I don't think the entry is case sensitive - which is good as I don't know that using a Sage remote that you can enter lower case letters. So the entry above would also work if entered: PWS:KCARIVER32 . On the Sage remote you have to press the "1" key several times to get symbols such as the colon.

[jusjoken]

Did you try setting it on one extender and exporting the settings and then just importing the settings on the other extenders?

k

[wayner]

Originally Posted by jusjoken

Did you try setting it on one extender and exporting the settings and then just importing the settings on the other extenders?

Not sure - I will try that. I am assuming that I can also export from the server as well, can't I?

[jusjoken]

Yes.