I have 2 different OpenWeather plugins configured on 2 different Pi’s. Both show the same strange behaviour : very long interval between updates of the plugin. The plugin is configured to update every 5 minutes:
{
"id": "weathernl",
"class": "OpenWeatherDevice",
"name": "Lelystad, Netherlands",
"location": "Lelystad, Netherlands",
"units": "metric",
"lang": "en",
"timeout": 300000
},
But when I look in the events of the last day, it’s not even near 5 minutes:
Time Device Attribute Value
23.11.2015 06:36:55 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 5.4 °C
23.11.2015 03:31:52 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 6 °C
23.11.2015 00:31:50 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 6.6 °C
22.11.2015 18:31:44 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 7.1 °C
22.11.2015 15:31:41 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 5.7 °C
22.11.2015 12:31:38 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 8.2 °C
22.11.2015 09:31:36 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 6 °C
22.11.2015 06:41:34 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 6.3 °C
22.11.2015 03:41:32 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 7.8 °C
21.11.2015 23:41:29 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 7.3 °C
21.11.2015 20:40:56 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 7.8 °C
21.11.2015 18:40:54 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 7 °C
21.11.2015 15:40:52 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 7.9 °C
21.11.2015 12:40:49 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 7.7 °C
21.11.2015 11:40:44 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 8.8 °C
21.11.2015 09:40:42 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 8.3 °C
21.11.2015 08:40:41 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 7.2 °C
21.11.2015 07:40:41 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 4 °C
21.11.2015 06:40:40 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 7.2 °C
21.11.2015 03:40:37 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 8.6 °C
21.11.2015 00:40:35 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 8.1 °C
20.11.2015 21:40:32 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 7.8 °C
20.11.2015 18:40:30 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 8.7 °C
20.11.2015 15:40:27 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 9.2 °C
20.11.2015 12:35:25 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 9.9 °C
20.11.2015 09:39:57 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 9.6 °C
20.11.2015 06:34:53 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 9.4 °C
20.11.2015 03:39:50 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 9.5 °C
20.11.2015 00:39:48 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 10.4 °C
19.11.2015 15:39:40 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 11 °C
19.11.2015 08:39:34 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 11.9 °C
19.11.2015 03:39:30 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 11.8 °C
18.11.2015 23:39:27 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 12.2 °C
18.11.2015 20:39:24 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 11 °C
18.11.2015 17:39:22 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 12.9 °C
18.11.2015 15:39:20 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 12.4 °C
18.11.2015 14:39:19 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 13.3 °C
18.11.2015 12:39:15 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 11.6 °C
18.11.2015 09:38:47 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 11.5 °C
18.11.2015 05:38:44 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 11.3 °C
18.11.2015 02:38:42 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 11.8 °C
18.11.2015 00:38:40 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 12 °C
17.11.2015 21:33:38 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 13.3 °C
17.11.2015 15:33:31 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 12.6 °C
17.11.2015 12:33:29 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 12.7 °C
17.11.2015 09:33:26 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 11.3 °C
17.11.2015 06:33:24 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 10.8 °C
17.11.2015 03:38:21 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 11.2 °C
17.11.2015 02:38:20 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 10.7 °C
17.11.2015 01:38:19 Lelystad, Netherlands (weathernl) Temperature 11.3 °C
I’m running 2 different Pi’s with a total of 3 city’s on the same API. According to the site you can make 60 calls per minute withe the free API, I assume that polling once every 5 minutes for 3 citys would not be a problem (not getting errors in pimatic about this plugin as well).
Anyone else experiencing this strange update interval ?