1) Give a description of the problem
(I want to only get a text message when the wind or wind gust are above 5 mph.)
2) What is the expected behavior?
(Get an alert when wind gust reach above 5mph)
3) What is happening/not happening?
(Getting alerts all the time)
4) Post a Green Snapshot of the piston
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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)
The wind and wind gust are changing practically every moment.
(rises, drops and rises again… all day, every day)
For a visual, here is a 24 hour snapshot of both of my data points, taken every 10 minutes.
(it likely changes more frequently than this, but I am limiting mine to only running 6 times an hour)
You could change your code to say:
IF wind rises above 6 MPH
and you will get less alerts… but it would still be too many, I think.
What I ended up doing with mine is storing the previous 5 data points (40 minutes total) and base my alerts on the average. It is not as quick to notify me of strong winds, but it keeps the false positives to a minimum.
For reference, here is the same time period with the 40 min average wind speed shown.
Must less jagged and haphazard, and easier for me to code with.
Alternatively, you could grab the wind forecast which usually only changes once a day.
$weather.forecast.forecast.simpleforecast.forecastday.maxwind.mph
Returns the speed of the max wind forecast.
$weather.forecast.forecast.simpleforecast.forecastday.avewind.mph
Returns the speed of the average wind forecast.
