Problem to get pimatic-wunderground running

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Re: New plugin [pimatic-wunderground]

Hey again,
… have been blocked by some other tasks for a while but now came back to my PI

After doing open updates yesterday evening (pimatic, pim-homeduino, pim-mob-front, pim-surise), beside some dozens of ‘node errors’, my test PI now runs on the latested status - except node (still on 4.6.2).

I now tried to get also the wunderground plugin running, but currently without success
I configured it exactly as described by @SaxnPaule , incl. getting an API key from wunderground (still put in there a dummy-device), but every start/recreation of the device ends with:

info [pimatic-wunderground]: Reloading weather data…
warn [pimatic-wunderground]: [SyntaxError: Unexpected token]

In the frontend the device shows: “Error on parsing server response.”

Can someone help on this?

Here my current config:

Plugin:

   {
     "plugin": "wunderground",
     "active": true,
     "debug": true
   }

Device:

    {
      "apiKey": "myAPIkey",
      "country": "Germany",
      "city": "Kürten",
      "id": "wetter-station",
      "name": "Wetter Station",
      "class": "WundergroundDevice",
      "days": "1"
    }

Same here:
🌤️ Wetter
Error on parsing server response.

I have been using it for a long time now, but unfortunately it is not working for me also for some time now. I think it’s caused by the api of openweather for forecasts. I think forecasts aren’t anymore part of free user accounts.

My findings on the matter: The error handling of of the wunderground plugin is a bit sloppy as it does not check response status codes. Actually, the server response is “Unauthorized” (401).

Digging a little deeper, I found the Developer API is still in place, but the relevant parts of the weather API are no longer accessible. Finally, I checked the news archive and found an “end of service” notice. As a consequence I’ll put wunderground on the list of deprecated plugins.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

https://apicommunity.wunderground.com/weatherapi/topics/end-of-service-for-the-weather-underground-api

Hi @mwittig,
thanks for the quick clarification 👍

… but disappointing as I had the hope to use some stations here in the surrounding…

Thanks again @mwittig

As already mentioned here Released pimatic-wunderground@0.2.4
there is a php-script for homepages which can be used without API key to get the current values of an private weather station. Unfortunately without forecast.
I found it here: http://www.meteotemplate.com/web/extras.php -> stand-alone scripts -> “Stickers for Weather Underground”

@pedder said in Problem to get pimatic-wunderground running:

but disappointing as I had the hope to use some stations here in the surrounding

I am planning to provide a solution based on the Dark Sky API shortly, which for current weather and forecasts.

Until Dark Sky plugin come true you can try Pimatic Openwheather plugin.

Works pretty well but without fancy icons…

Hi All,
thanks for all the additions

@Flop2006 - I fear that becomes a bit too complicated for me
@Bill-BlackSoll - I had a look at it, but I couldn’t find the UV index, which I would like to have
@mwittig - I had a look at it and found UV index and cloudiness, which I need.

Target is, to enhance my shutter steering, currently only done by two thermometers, one on the east and one on the west side of the house. Having UV and cloudiness would make it perfect!.

Thanks in advance!

Regards Pedder

Thanks for the info @mwittig in the other threat, that sounds comprehensible

Another event, maybe bug, just occurred this late afternoon, which fits better to this threat.
As currently only openweather seems to be a in minimum useful solution for my shutter sun-steering idea, I installed the plugin.

But I wondered, as with that installation, resp. after the restart, a new line “command”: “up” has been added to the first rawshutter device in my config.json, which then produced an error event and following also in all rules, which contain this rawshutter.
I did the plugin installation via the pimatic frontend and the record for the respective rawshutter is the first in the device area.

I deleted the line manually in the config-editor, but when I did the second restart, after putting in the apiKey, the same happened again.

To become sure about this ‘line adding’ I deleted the openweather plugin and did the whole procedure a second time and exactly the same happened again.

After uninstallation the openweather plugin in general, I did multiple pimatic restarts and also PI reboots, but no line was added.

To verify if this effect only comes with the openweather plugin, I tested the same with the dwd 0.9.2 and dwd-weather 0.9.5 plugins. Both plugins did not show such behavior.
So however the relationships are, I can reproduce this only with openweather.

For sure I can delete the line from the config manually, but as every restart produces a new line, this would become needless.
I would like to make this transparent for you and maybe the other developers.

Sunny regards
Pedder