webCoRE Update v0.3.10a.20190223 - adds $twcweather to replace discontinued $weather, bug fixes

#82

We do not have access to any documentation for the weather data that is coming out of SmartThings.

#83

Please refer to $twcweather.forecast.daypart[0].daypartName. We donā€™t know for sure but have assumed that all values under the daypart data follow the same pattern.

#87

I donā€™t see a way to get chance of precipitation within the forecast. Am I missing something? This is the most important part of a forecast (to me) but the narrative gives only vague hints like ā€œrainā€ or ā€œthunderstormsā€ or doesnā€™t mention it at all.

#88

For the next 15 days broken down into 12 hour blocks, you can use this:
$twcweather.forecast.daypart[0].precipChance
which currently yields this for me:
[null, 0, 0, 20, 0, 10, 10, 0, 0, 10, 10, 10, 40, 50, 40, 0, 0, 10, 10, 10, 50, 50, 50, 40, 40, 40, 40, 40, 40, 40]

To only pull a single data point, you can add [x] to the end. For example,
$twcweather.forecast.daypart[0].precipChance[3]
pulls tomorrow night only. (using the numbers above, yields 20)

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#90

Thank you!

#91

I want to trigger action when there is a tornado warning. Is it sufficient to just check alerts[0].eventDescription for ā€œTornado Warningā€? Iā€™m not sure exactly what alerts[1] and so on are - are those previously issued alerts and if so does every alert start at [0] to where checking [0] is indeed sufficient? Or are they multiple alerts that are currently active, such that even alerts above 0 need to be checked?

#92

Hi guys - I had been using weather underground to get the outdoor temp, outdoor humidity and dew point prior to the API being shutdown. I had a piston that ran 4 times an hour and called that API, and set global variables to hold these values. Then from any piston I could just access the values from the global variables, which were kept up to date by the piston, refreshed every 15 minutes.

I see that twcweather has $twcweather.conditions.temperatureDewPoint, $twcweather.conditions.temperature and $twcweather.conditions.relativeHumidity. It looks like I can just reference these in my pistons. It is that easy?

A couple questions though:

  1. How do I tell twcweather what my zip code is that I want these readings to come from?

  2. How often do these twcweather values get refreshed, and how can I control them to make sure they are updated at least 4 times and hour, maybe more if allowed?

Thanks!

#93

  1. It gets your location from your hub, make sure you have dropped the pin on your house in the ST app settings.

  2. We donā€™t know how often they update existing data, but the day / night cycle (where the array for 15 day forecasts moves a notch) updates over a 30 minute window between 1am-1:30am and 1pm-1:30pm ish

#94

Is this still true for you Robin?

My location updates consistently between 3 and 3:30 ish

#95

I havenā€™t checked for ages and I deleted the test piston.

But ast time I checked it was still 1-1:30

#96

Just a question. Is there any way to get weather alerts like we had with the old weather? I can collect a lot of information from conditions but one function I still canā€™t replicate is when NWS issues any severe weather notices such as Tornado watches and warnings.

Thanksā€¦

#97

@ipaterson - just curious if any new features ā€¦

A newer SmartApp version (v0.3.10c.20190522) is available

#98

This really sucks. I had a webcore piston that checked the {$weather.alerts.alerts.description} variable to announce inclement weather alerts. There is no equivalent with twcweather. Any suggestions for an equivalent service?

#99

@frakman1, Could I possibly have a look at that piston?

#100

Your reply is on an unrelated comment, just noting that $twcweather.conditions.wxPhraseLong (e.g. Mostly Cloudy, Heavy Rain) does not contain severe weather alerts. We have no documentation for what data to expect in $twcweather.alerts but alerts are available. Here are a few replies in this thread related to alerts with some sample data and usage:

My apologies for not locking this thread earlier, it is much more difficult to find information here than if the posts were in meaningful individual topics.

#101

The documentation for ā€œAlertsā€ is so scarce, I am thinking of creating a logging piston to capture all of my alerts. (and eventually, update the Wiki for all of our benefits)

The only alerts I have seen reference to is:

temp

Can anyone confirm if ā€œ$twcweather.alertsā€ will capture all of the data, or do I need multiple queries to get all the info?

#102

Yeah that would be great! I had to check the wiki before posting that reply to see whether you had already started something like that. This would be a great piston to share with others so that we can crowd source the data.

I think itā€™s safe to assume that if there are multiple alerts, that expression would include all of them.

$twcweather.alerts Observations
#103

I searched the TWC_Weather Wiki page for the word alerts and it is nowhere to be found. Where are you getting your twcweather information from?

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