pimatic-openweather plugin keeps giving me wrong numbers

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Hi all,
I try to get the openweather plugin running, but somehow it gives me far wrong numbers for the temperature. Actually the tempereature is supposed to be 275.5°C and the humidity is 96%. This is my setup in the devices section:

{
  "id": "weather",
  "class": "OpenWeatherDevice",
  "name": "Weather Julich",
  "location": "Julich, DE",
  "units": "metric",
  "lang": "de-DE",
  "timeout": 300000
},
{
  "id": "forecast",
  "class": "OpenWeatherForecastDevice",
  "name": "Forecast 1 day for Julich",
  "location": "Julich, DE",
  "units": "metric",
  "lang": "de-DE",
  "timeout": 300000,
  "day": 1
}

I already tried different cities, but the problem is the same.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

My device looks like that :

    {
      "id": "openweather",
      "class": "OpenWeatherDevice",
      "name": "Wetter für Dillenburg",
      "location": "Dillenburg, Germany",
      "units": "metric",
      "lang": "de",
      "timeout": 3600000
    },

you can try to set location to “Julich, Germany” and lang to “de” only
those are the only differences I see.

must be the “de-DE” it gave me some wrong output too. After changing “nl-NL” to “nl” it was all good.

I tried many differents cities and settings, but the problem is still the same. This is my actual config:

{
  "id": "weather",
  "class": "OpenWeatherDevice",
  "name": "Wetter",
  "location": "Dillenburg, Germany",
  "units": "metric",
  "lang": "en",
  "timeout": 200000
},

I changed back to “en” for the language. Something I also discovered is, that even I have switched to “de”, the language on the webpage stayed in english.

I would like to upload the image of my webpage, but I don’t know how to do that. If it helps I can upload my full config.json

i have the exact same config (only the place is in the Netherlands )
Output is perfect.

Did you try to restart the raspberry? It does help sometimes.

I tried this, but it didn’t help. Is there a way to test the openweathermap in general? Before I started using pimatic I tired pilight and there I got openweathermap running.
For now I’m still having 274.2°C and RH92% in Dillenburg…

getting really hot in here
you’re having the latest version of the plugin 0.8.6?

what you can try to do is to delete the plugin at the node_modules folder. the plugin will be installed then as new.

for that, first stop pimatic with
sudo service pimatic stop
then go to the node_modules folder with
cd /usr/local/pimatic-app/node_modules (or werever your installation of pimatic is located)
now delete the folder
sudo rm -rf pimatic-openweather
and restart pimatic
sudo service pimatic start

the plugin will be installed again. maybe this helps!?

the other thing about the language - there’s only the “description” of the actual weather that will be displayed in the language you’ve configured then :

interesting. I’m having the same values for everything but for the temperature. If I’m running with the language set to “de”, I still have “scattered clouds” than “überwiegend bewölkt”. Here is my full config if you want to have a look at:

http://pastebin.com/jnFkR320

I did a reinstall of the plugin as you suggested, but that didn’t help.

@leader21 : My temperature is exactly 273.2 higher than yours (more or less absolute 0K)

ok sorry, then that’s beyond me.
maybe @sweetpi or @josecastroleon have an idea

okay, here is my screenshot by the way:
http://www.youscreen.de/ujtrqegu18.jpg

is it possible to define which data from the plugin will be shown in the gui. i am not really interested in pressure and some other details …

if you have experiences with the other weather plugin called “weather” please also answer here.

at the moment i am testing both weather plugins because they provide different temperatures for the same place (0-4 degrees variation)

@flybysun The following works fine for me. 14,3 C, clear sky

{
      "id": "weather1",
      "class": "OpenWeatherDevice",
      "name": "Wetter in Julich",
      "location": "Julich, Germany",
      "units": "metric",
      "lang": "de",
      "timeout": 300000
 }

As @so-what said the plugin may return wrong results if lang is not set to valid value. Another problem may be that you actually get values from the Browser local storage rather than fresh values from the weather service (e.g., if the weather service is temporarily not available).

If you have Chrome try to load Pimatic using the Incognito Mode, or clean your Browser Cache (including local storage a.k.a “hosted App-Data” & Cookies). Apart from this you should follow the steps suggested @leader21

Hope this helps

@dk00000
pimatic-weather is discontinued due to the fact that MSN canceled its weather service.
http://forum.pimatic.org/topic/300/pimatic-weather-not-working-anymore

to answer your second question - hiding device attributes is not yet implemented but is already available in the dev branch of Pimatic. If it’s been testet for good I guess it will go in production in one of the next updates. feel free to test it by installing an separate pimatic dev version if you like.
https://github.com/pimatic/pimatic/commit/a09811663061f46da80864ceb33d900669039beb

@flybysun Maybe changeing
"Dillenburg, Germany"
to
"Dillenburg, Deutschland"
helps?

This is my weather config:

@leader21
ok. its the second plugin that doesnt work anymore… (pilight + weather)

would be nice if someone can add a hint at the pimatic plugin website (http://pimatic.org/pages/plugins/)

thanks a lot. i will remove weather plugin!

So, finally I managed to get it to work. I discovered a strange problem with this. When I used the Raspberry at home the whole plugin was working fine. When I took it to work and used it in our network the plugin gave me the temperature in Kelvin rather than in °C. So I though this might be a firewall issue and did some research with a collegue of mine who can look at the web-request and answers of the machine. He found out, that the answers he saw were also in Kelvin. But he also found out, that if you leave the Blank (" ") inbetween City and Country than the answers from openweathermap are right.
Example:

{
  "id": "weather",
  "class": "OpenWeatherDevice",
  "name": "Wetter",
  "location": "Schermer, Netherlands",
  "units": "metric",
  "lang": "de",
  "timeout": 200000
},

with the above config I got the temperature in Klevin and the language always in english

{
  "id": "weather",
  "class": "OpenWeatherDevice",
  "name": "Wetter",
  "location": "Schermer,Netherlands",
  "units": "metric",
  "lang": "de",
  "timeout": 200000
},

with this config the temperature is in °Celsius and the language is in german.

Even it’s fine for me now, it is still somehow strange. At home I’m using a fritzbox 6360cable. Can it be that these routers somehow modify webrequest (taking out blanks for instance)?

@flybysun Interesting findings, but I cannot confirm this!

As said earlier the following entry (with space char) works fine for me. I have even tested this with your location which also works fine for me (tested on Raspi and Windows 7). So there must be something else causing this behavior.

{
      "id": "weather1",
      "class": "OpenWeatherDevice",
      "name": "Wetter in Julich",
      "location": "Julich, Germany",
      "units": "metric",
      "lang": "de",
      "timeout": 300000
}

hi, i think there was an issue at the beginning of the openweather-plugin,… there was a notice, that you have to use
"Schermer,%20Netherlands",
I haven’t checked this,… but it could be

greetings
jensebub

now i removed weather plugin and added openweather plugin.
at the moment 16.6 C in Dresden.
when i look to my local thermometer: 21 C
when i look to my smartphone with iOS weather app: 21 C

the data from openweathermap.org is not really usefull.