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Hi Everybody,
i like to automate my garden irrigation with pimatic and like to check if there was rain in the last 48 hours.
Something like:
If its 08:00 o’clock and temperature is > 22 °C and there was no rain in the last 48hours then…

Rain and temperature are coming from the openweather device…

How can i archive this?

Thank you

i personally don’t trust the rainforecast of any weather service at all.
maybe you should rather use a rain / water sensor for detecting rain.

but you can give it a try with WHEN rain of yourweatherdevice has not been updated for 2 days and its 8:00 and temp is > 22 THEN do some stuff

don’t know if this will work with the openweather device properly.

Hi Raducanu,
you can use the variables from the openweather plugin for that.

if its 8:00 and $weather.temperature is > 20 and $weather.rain is < 0.2 for 48 hours and $forcast.rain is < 0.2 for 24 hours then...

@magic-tune Thanks, i will give it a try.
I just figuered out that openweather delivers no cumulated rain value for the day, just a past 3 hours value. Also the values looks “calculated” and not really measured.
For my city, there is light rain shown, but we are >33°C and clear blue sky. The only “rain” is water from from condensation in the morning.
Maybe i have to get some data from wunderground weather, because they provide “real” data from local weatherstations (there is one just 2 miles away)