New plugin [pimatic-wunderground]
Today I started to port my iFrame code into a dedicated plugin for wunderground: https://github.com/saxn-paule/pimatic-wunderground
At the moment forecast already works. Actual day is still missing. Also loading the embedded icon font doesn’t work and I don’t know why.
version 0.0.1 released 2018-02-11
Get your free developer key here: https://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/pricing.html
Choose your preferred language from here: https://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/docs?d=language-support
Find your Location here: https://www.wunderground.com/
As long as there is no solution for using custom fonts in plugins, please copy the fonts folder to mobile-frontend folder after plugin install
cp -R /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-wunderground/app/fonts/ /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-mobile-frontend/public/
Please test and provide feedback.
version 0.0.2 released 2018-02-13
version 0.0.4 released 2018-02-13
I got curious so I downloaded the zip-file from github. The directory in that file is named pimatic-wunderground-master and not pimatic-wunderground. Does that matter?
Yes, that matters. It’s because of the branch. Rename it to pimatic-wunderground, copy it to pimatic-app/node_modules/ and run a npm install from the pimatic-wunderground folder.
Then copy the fonts folder as described in the Readme.
Why didn’t you install it via npm? Just run a “sudo npm install pimatic-wunderground” from pimatic-app folder.
After adding the device i get:
00:59:17.494 [pimatic] info: New device “WunderWeather”…
00:59:18.479 [pimatic] error: An uncaught exception occurred: TypeError: Cannot read property ‘weather’ of undefined
00:59:18.479 [pimatic] error:> at Request._callback (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-wunderground/wunderground.coffee:313:49)
00:59:18.479 [pimatic] error:> at Request.self.callback (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-wunderground/node_modules/request/request.js:186:22)
00:59:18.479 [pimatic] error:> at emitTwo (events.js:87:13)
00:59:18.479 [pimatic] error:> at Request.emit (events.js:172:7)
00:59:18.479 [pimatic] error:> at Request.<anonymous> (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-wunderground/node_modules/request/request.js:1163:10)
00:59:18.479 [pimatic] error:> at emitOne (events.js:77:13)
00:59:18.479 [pimatic] error:> at Request.emit (events.js:169:7)
00:59:18.479 [pimatic] error:> at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-wunderground/node_modules/request/request.js:1085:12)
00:59:18.479 [pimatic] error:> at IncomingMessage.g (events.js:260:16)
00:59:18.479 [pimatic] error:> at emitNone (events.js:72:20)
00:59:18.479 [pimatic] error:> at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:166:7)
00:59:18.479 [pimatic] error:> at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:923:12)
00:59:18.479 [pimatic] error:> at nextTickCallbackWith2Args (node.js:458:9)
00:59:18.479 [pimatic] error:> at process._tickDomainCallback (node.js:413:17)
00:59:18.479 [pimatic] error:> This is most probably a bug in pimatic or in a module, please report it!
00:59:18.486 [pimatic] warn: Keeping pimatic alive, but could be in an undefined state, please restart pimatic as soon as possible!
Did you add your API key to the config?
Nevertheless, I added some lines of code to avoid pimatic from crashing if the key is missing.
version 0.0.5 released 2018-02-16
If you want to use geo coordinates instead of countries/cities, leave the country and state property empty and only use the city property in following format:
45.123456,15.654321
I updated to version 0.0.5 but the pimatic GUI still states that version 0.0.4 is installed. The log now gives me this:
[pimatic] error: Invalid config of pimatic-wunderground: Property “apiKey” is not a valid property, Property “city” is not a valid property
I double checked the apiKey, it is the correct one. This is my config:
{
"apiKey": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
"plugin": "wunderground",
"active": true,
"city": "52.43,13.58",
"debug": true
}
Furthermore, the only thing i now can change via the GUI in the settings is switching ‘debug’ on and off.
Yes, please remove all properties from the plugin config except debug.
{
"plugin": "wunderground",
"debug": true
}
These properties need to be part of the device config.
If you still have 0.0.4 installed remove the pimatic-wunderground folder from node_modules and run a
sudo npm install pimatic-wunderground@0.0.5
from pimatic-app folder
Success! And it looks very nice, thank you! I’ll keep you posted if I see anything weird 
Just got an automated email from wunderground, stating that my API key ‘exceeded its allotted usage today by making 502 calls in a day but the limit is 500’.
Is there a way to reduce the number of calls?
How many devices did you configure? For normal that shouldn’t happen. I don’t know exactly, but I think there are only two requests every 10 minutes.
Just one, with three days forecast.
I checked the code. Two request every five minutes or on page reload.
One request for actual weather and one for the forecast.
That means round about 300 requests per day.
@saxnpaule said in New plugin [pimatic-wunderground]:
Two request every five minutes or on page reload.
One request per 5 minutes already makes 480 requests a day. I think you need to increase the interval to something more decent, say 15 minutes as this appears to be the shortest update cycle for wundergound anyway. “We’d rather update 15 minutes for the often updating stations and 1-3 hours for the national ones if we’re not going to get any new data. That would substantially help us keep costs down.” - https://apicommunity.wunderground.com/weatherapi/topics/how_often_is_the_api_updated
"It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.", Hofstadter's Law
I’ll update the code tomorrow and publish a new version.
