Weather integration

[treyott]

1) Give a description of the problem
I am trying to define variables for the weather

2) What is the expected behaviour?
I want to define “CurrentlyHumid” variable as = ($twcweather.conditions.relativehumidity)

3) What is happening/not happening?
I test it by writing the piston to greater than 90 (should be false) and it stays true.

4) Post a Green Snapshot of the piston

**5) Attach logs after turning logging level to Full**
11/17/2021, 2:48:01 PM +51ms
+1ms ╔Received event [Home].test = 1637182081050 with a delay of 0ms
+40ms ║RunTime Analysis CS > 20ms > PS > 6ms > PE > 14ms > CE
+42ms ║Runtime (36949 bytes) successfully initialized in 6ms (v0.3.110.20191009) (40ms)
+44ms ║╔Execution stage started
+326ms ║║Comparison (boolean) true is (boolean) true = true (2ms)
+328ms ║║Condition #2 evaluated true (279ms)
+329ms ║║Condition group #1 evaluated true (state did not change) (281ms)
+332ms ║║Cancelling statement #3's schedules...
+351ms ║║Executed physical command Switch 6].on() (13ms)
+353ms ║║Executed [Switch 6].on (15ms)
+358ms ║╚Execution stage complete. (314ms)
+359ms ╚Event processed successfully (359ms)`Preformatted text`

[eibyer]

What is the output if you log to console…

$twcweather.conditions.relativehumidity

Just a guess that the info you’re getting back is formatted string, so I’d suggest trying to wrap the output in int() before making the gt() comparisson.

[treyott]

Admittedly I’m a bit green with coding and may not be fully in the loop with terminology. So i’m not sure how to answer the output question or how to check.
I think i understand your int() point and will attempt now.

[eibyer]

gt(int($twcweather.conditions.relativeHumidity), '90')

Edit: Also, I’m curious if you should remove the quotes from the 90 so it doesn’t get treated as a string.

[treyott]

gt(int($twcweather.conditions.relativeHumidity), ‘90’)

It worked! Thank you! However, upon saving i receive this message.

[treyott]

upon saving i receive this message.

[eibyer]

Your piston does not have a trigger, it will only run if another piston calls it or if you subscribe to a device event that will cause the piston to run.

Some reading here…

Conditions and Triggers: The difference?

as new users join the community, we expect that at some point many new users will ask this question. so, heres a quick note. conditions: if there are NO triggers in a piston, webcore checks the conditions to decide which events that piston should be subscribed to. if there are triggers in that piston, webcore does NOT subscribe to the events the conditions refer to. triggers: if there are triggers in a piston webcore ONLY checks the triggers to …

[treyott]

If the defined variable “changes to” true…That is what i thought the trigger is.

[treyott]

If the defined variable “changes to” true…

[eibyer]

What will trigger the variable’s value to update?

[treyott]

I suppose my assumption was it runs a check ever so often. Hmm? Back to the drawing board. Thanks for the help with the integer

[eibyer]

In this case it won’t, but you can set a timer that will poll for changes to that particular data you want.