What Is Wrong With This Piston?

#1

1) Give a description of the problem
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I doesn’t refresh temperature values
2) What is the expected behavior?
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3) What is happening/not happening?
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I can see the AccuWeather app receives refresh and getForecast commands but the 3hr forecast and reel feel never update. Also, the piston trace progress is strange - only one blue line from top to bottom. Log is full - no errors. NOTE: the 1 minute interval is for testing purposes. It acts same way with 10 minutes.
4) Post a Green Snapshot of the pistonimage
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5) Attach any logs (From ST IDE and by turning logging level to Full)
(PASTE YOUR LOGS HERE BETWEEN THE MARKS THEN HIGHLIGHT ALL OF THE LOGS SND CLICK ON THE </> ICON TO FORMAT THEM)

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#2

Your coding actually looks very nice…

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returns:
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and then:
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strips the extra text and returns:
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I have never monitored AccuWeather’s 3hr forecast, but I notice on many of their other data points they only update a couple times an hour… Might be worth watching this one for a bit to see if the 64 & 66 change…

#3

I just tested that code twice in 20 minutes, and it changed a couple of degrees for me…

#4

I am still scratching my head why the trace line goes straight one blue line (first to the left). It doesn’t even show it goes into the do action although I see the refresh and getForecast commands sent in th AccuWeather recents. But the variables never refresh. Those 66 and 64 are from last night…

#5

You have it locked into only running between 7am and 8:59am…
The variables will only change during those times… (line 20 in your pic)
The other 22 hours in the day, your piston will do nothing.

#6

:slight_smile: That is not the issue but thanks anyway.

#7

I am running couple of months old WebCORE (manual update). Could that be causing it?

#8

The piston you attached to your original post will NOT update the variables for 22 hours each day… Adjust that line and watch the magic happen :sunglasses:

#9

I know. That is the intend. Only to update between 7 and 9am. If you look at the screenshot, it was executed in that time frame.

#10

Here is a screeshot with time of day removed. There is something in the log abou t"= recovery with a delay of 5072ms". Not sure if this is an error. The values as still stuck on last nights’.

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#11

Well, I just rewrote your code out by hand, and it seems your first block is causing issues.
I would delete/disable all of the highlighted lines below, and it should work as intended.

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By the way, AccuWeather acts like a device, so there is no real need to poll for fresh data. When there is new data, AccuWeather automatically pushes it to the ST hub.

#12

Well, I found a problem with AccuWeather - the next 3 hours forecast sometimes is stuck on the previous hour. So it could be 8:30 but the 3 hour forecast would still be 8,9, and 10 am, instead of 9,10,11. I think the manual refresh and/or makes that update.

On a side note, anyone knows a better service with forecast (I am aware of the smart weather tiles but don’t see forecast there)

#13

Well, you could try using the built in WUnderground to get the forecast temp:
$weather.hourly.hourly_forecast.temp.english
That code above pulls in MANY hours…

If you only want THIS hour, the code is:
$weather.hourly.hourly_forecast.temp.english[0]

If you only want the NEXT hour, the code is:
$weather.hourly.hourly_forecast.temp.english[1]

and so on…

I suspect you will have a similar issue with not knowing exactly WHEN the hour clicks over. If you really wanted to play it safe, you could pull in 4 hours (instead of 3).

An advanced method (that requires a bunch more code) could actually pull in all 4 temps for the next 4 hours, and then spit out the highest number from that list…

Personally, I use WUnderground for 95% of my weather queries… and only use AccuWeather when WUnderground cannot do what I need. (such as cloud coverage)

You can find a lot more code samples for weather forecasts here: https://wiki.webcore.co/Weather#Forecast

#14

Great info. Thanks.
I assume that would pull data based on the hub location as configured, right?

#15

Yes, you are correct.

#16

By the way, I left that test piston running for a bit, and it works well…
Updating itself shortly after each hour. (Notice the logs at the bottom)

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#17

Yeah, mine is working again. Something with the AccuWeather refresh I think was throwing it off. Thanks,

#18

No problem. Glad to help