Weather Snow Piston

[jcrawf32]

I live in a place with a lot of snow and we have to use heat stripping on the roof after it snows to prevent ice damming. I want to create a piston that will turn on the heat strip if I received 2-3 inches of snow the previous day and the temperature rises above freezing. I haven’t played around with the weather function in webcore. Is something like this possible? if so, any sample pistons would be great so I can get my head around this concept.

Thanks

[Robin]

I’d say try something like

$weather.forecast.forecast.simpleforecast.forecastday.snow_allday.in

But I’ve had snow today and I’m getting zeros

Play with some of these:

https://wiki.webcore.co/Weather

[c1arkbar]

Searched for “snow” and came up with this

Roof Heater - Add past 24h of Snow to the logic

1) Give a description of the problem I currently have a roof/gutter heater attached to a GE Smart Switch. Currently, I am turning it on if the temp is <38F and turning it off when it goes above 45F. I would like to add a logical AND for if there was more than 1" of snow reported in past 24h - not sure if this is possible. I run a Wunderground PWS site and get the temp from what I upload via rapidfire updates and this is working fine - but it is inefficient as it turns on regardless of recent s…

[JohnHoke]

Yeah - thats my post but still mucking around with how to implement right