Turn Off When Weather Rainy/Windy

Pegasus · 2022-08-09 10:51:40 UTC

1) Give a description of the problem
Need to turn off outside blowup display if rainy or windy

2) What is the expected behaviour?
When OpenWeatherMap predicts rain or wind, blowups are turned off and PUSH sent

3) What is happening/not happening?
Can;t figure out how to get variables from OpenWeather

E_Sch · 2022-08-09 15:18:14 UTC

HE or ST?

Pegasus · 2022-08-09 15:46:39 UTC

HE Thanks

fieldsjm · 2022-08-09 15:52:23 UTC

Do you have the openweather installed as a device or are as your weather source in webCore?

E_Sch · 2022-08-09 16:01:54 UTC

Yes do see:

Pegasus · 2022-08-09 17:49:53 UTC

I am missing something somewhere, I installed the Base, Piston and Storage Apps, Then I went to Apps but only had the single Webcore program to add, which I did. I have imported all of my old pistons which are all working fine.

I see no references to storage anywhere.

fieldsjm · 2022-08-09 18:13:00 UTC

In HE, go to the WebCore App…under settings there is an open to enable weather… “Weather Type to enable?” select OpenWeatherMap and enter your key and coordinates

from @E_Sch first link above:

On another topic

You can see the $weather data format by

make sure you installed the webCoRE storage app (it gathers and updates the $weather variable)

setup the webcore main app to enable $weather and your source and key, and done your way out.

Go to the webcore storage app (HE console -> apps -> select the webcore storage app) and click on “dump weather structure” - this will let you see what you have to work with based on your source

In your piston, that is accessed via $weather… (of what you see in the dump).

The different sources for $weather have different data, formats/spelling of variables, so hence you need to see the dump.

There are many example weather pistons in the webCoRE forum (most of these are for $twc as a source which ST uses (which is a paid service, so not on HE), but these examples can help you start with something and then adjust the data reference).

The storage app does attempt to add icon references to the $weather data as well as a $weather.weatherType variable to give you the source setting into the piston.

Another note - many times $weather data has times embedded as integer numbers (these could be seconds since epoch, or milliseconds since epoch). HE webcore can make these time or datetime directly (ie dateTime(value)) vs. all the gyrations you may see in ST pistons to fix time as numbers…