I’m seeing a difference in the rain amount data based on whether I check today’s amount at the end of the day or check yesterday’s amount tomorrow. I would expect these to be the same. What am I missing?
I’m working on logging the rain for the week for sprinkler timing, but there’s a big difference between the two.
My only suggestion is to test it by splitting the different times into two pistons and see if you get the expected result.
I actually think it’s a difference in the data coming from the API. I suspect that today’s amount comes from the closest weather station and yesterday’s amount comes from the airport.
(Yesterday’s amounts were both zeros, so that’s good.)
It’s a possibility that the data is coming in from different stations as I don’t think we have a choice on which station gives you the data.
You do if you don’t use $weather and use a custom dth to do this. Ie. Smart weather station tile. In the settings you can pick any of the following: zipcode, city/state, or PWS. If you choose PWS you need to go to digital weather underground and find one that is closest to you. Enter that code in and it will report back on that weather station info that is being uploaded
The device handler is here
The one I adapted to add a bunch more data available to webcore, it is based off the previous suggestion, only it allows for up to 3 different locations to be monitored. And most of what you need for data is available the]rough webcore device attribute drop down.
It is here
