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evebrea
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getting weather info - simple

Post by evebrea » 22 Dec 2018 06:04

I'm looking for a way to just make a global like global_weatheris

which just holds info like "Sunny", "Rain", "Tstorms", the basic weather options in my state. XD

maybe a second one for temperature in farenheit?

so i can use it for zooper since zooper won't get weather anymore

I don't need "today in saint pete the weather will be clear with partly cloudy skies and a temperature of 45 with a high of 89" Just current

Sunny
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Martin
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Re: getting weather info - simple

Post by Martin » 23 Dec 2018 13:11

Hi,

You could use action HTTP Request to call an API like this one:
https://openweathermap.org/current

You can use action Script and function fromJSON to convert the response to an object structure and then access the data. Something like this might work (untested):

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data=fromJSON(response);
condition=data["weather"][0]["main"];
temp=data["main"]["temp"];
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Re: getting weather info - simple

Post by digitalstone » 23 Dec 2018 14:37

Thanks Martin, that seems like a great source.
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evebrea
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Re: getting weather info - simple

Post by evebrea » 25 Dec 2018 17:39

is that one of those sites that requires an api key and all that?

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Re: getting weather info - simple

Post by Desmanto » 27 Dec 2018 06:24

Yes, you need to sign up to get the free API keys. I just test using HTTP request to the city url. The response has no weather info at all, only kinda some template response. Analzying the XHR document loading at the Chrome PC developer tab, it shows there are API request using the same appid as used in the example page. I tried to request using this appid (b6907d289e10d714a6e88b30761fae22&id=5375480) and it works. Don't know if it has limit.

These are the variant that you can request from visiting the normal html page.
https://openweathermap.org/data/2.5/wea ... its=metric
https://openweathermap.org/data/2.5/for ... its=metric
https://openweathermap.org/data/2.5/for ... its=metric

Replace the 5375480 with the city ID you get from searching yours.
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Re: getting weather info - simple

Post by evebrea » 31 Dec 2018 15:14

thanks so much, both of you. this worked great. I now have a section of my zooper widget that uses the weather from that link (set to my city) via automagic which checks the weather every 15 minutes (roughly) and then uses various images to show me the weather (a sun, sun and clouds, sun and mist, clouds and rain, etc etc)

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Re: getting weather info - simple

Post by jmckeejr » 07 Mar 2019 17:36

This worked well for me, but I am also using dark sky to get forecast because it includes summary and some additional info I need. I originally used wunderground api up until yesterday then they dropped my api key. Took me a while to get that figured out using xpath now i have to figure out how to map values in JSON format.
I am going to attach a copy of the json as xml format for viewing, I need to get high and low from day 1 and day 2. Also need icon and summary. If could extract the formatted date that would be a bonus. Here is what I have that is obviously wrong.

Edit 3: I have corrected this and got it working. Just need to get the day from number.

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forecast=fromJSON(fore);
log(forecast);
foretemphi1=forecast["daily"]["data"][0]["temperatureHigh"];
foretemplo1=forecast["daily"]["data"][0]["temperatureLow"];
global_foretemphi1="{foretemphi1,numberformat,0}";
global_foretemplo1="{foretemplo1,numberformat,0}";
//foreday1=forecast["daily"]["summary"][0];
//global_foreday1=replace("{foreday1}","Night","PM");
//global_weather=forecast;
foreicon=forecast["daily"]["icon"];
foretemphi2=forecast["daily"]["data"][1]["temperatureHigh"];
foretemplo2=forecast["daily"]["data"][1]["temperatureLow"];
global_foretemphi2="{foretemphi2,numberformat,0}";
global_foretemplo2="{foretemplo2,numberformat,0}";
//foreday2=evaluateXPathAsString(forecast, "/response/forecast/txt_forecast/forecastdays/forecastday[2]/title/text()");
//global_foreday2=replace("{foreday2}","Night","AM");
foreicon2=forecast["daily"]["data"][0]["icon"];
//updt=evaluateXPathAsString(forecast, "//observation_time");
//updt=replace(updt, "Last Updated on ", "");
foreicona=replace("{foreicon}","-day","");
foreicon2a=replace("{foreicon2}","-day","");
global_foreicon=replace("{foreicona}","-night","");
global_foreicon2=replace("{foreicon2a}","-night","");
global_forelong1=forecast["daily"]["summary"];
global_forelong2=forecast["daily"]["data"][0]["summary"];
rain=forecast["daily"]["data"][0]["precipProbability"];
log("{rain}");
Edit: I changed this and added ["data"] where required, but I still get error in log "could not convert 'temperatureHigh' to number". Maybe a hand with that?

Edit 2: if I comment out the "global_foretemphi" and the next line, then I get error 'rain is not a list or map' but rain is the string I'm looking for...


Edit 3: woohoo I got it but I could still use a hand pulling the day in short format to have on my widget. I'll hopefully get that if I keep plugging away. I changed the code above to my corrected code.

Edit 4: getting a little further, why is the first daily time showing as Sunday? Is that correct? Because the high and low showing is for tomorrow, Saturday. I've tried subtracting 5 hours but it's still Sunday.

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foreday1=forecast["daily"]["data"][0]["time"]. // 1552021200
 
global_foreday1="{foreday1, dateformat, EEE}"; // Sun
here's an example response here as well if anyone can help me get the data points I want.
https://darksky.net/dev/docs#data-block
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Re: getting weather info - simple

Post by jmckeejr » 08 Mar 2019 15:41

I'm cheating for the time being and just getting the date via getDate and add hours where needed, but I would like to figure what I'm doing wrong with the dateformat of provided time. When I compare the forecast high and low with other apps it seems the first entry should be today and then the next tomorrow, etc. But I could be completely wrong...

Below is what I'm working on and I was thinking to share everything to make the widgets work once I get everything correct. Would be happy if anyone wants to contribute/collaborate.
I also made a small version for my android head unit status bar. I'm using custom fonts and getting weather info from both open weather(current) and dark sky (forecast) Eventually I will switch everything to dark sky I'm still learning how to parse the responses correctly.
Right now I just need to figure why the provided time is showing 2 days difference and day one is same day as day 2.

Edit: So when I format the given time (first one) is coming up as
07-18-1970 06:07. That cannot be correct.
Edit 2: I didn't think to ×1000 for milliseconds so I got it now. Last thing to do is find a way to get town name for widget without needing the extra request to open weather (dark sky does not provide actual name).
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jmckeejr
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Re: getting weather info - simple

Post by jmckeejr » 09 Mar 2019 06:07

I've found solutions to most/all of my issues and posted the completed widget v1.0 here.

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Re: getting weather info - simple

Post by evebrea » 12 Mar 2019 17:59

funny enough the site i was told to use is sometimes wrong as heck, or weird.

Like on some days it says "smoke", and i'm like "what, is the entire city on fire?"
go outside, completely clear.

some days when it's just overcast it says rain, all day.

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