Openweather doesn't alwats update devices (forecast/weather)

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Hi,
Just got the pimatic working with my sensors/actuator Now experimenting with rules.

For my shutters I would like to use the data of the openweather plugin.
But it does not update always, is this a known issue?
I set it to 300sec (5min), but it doesn’t update at all for 2,5 hours. Other times it updates every 5 minutes. You can also see sometime one of the items (i.e. Temperature) is not updates but others are.
I have enabled the debug option, but no logging is reported for the openweather. (Only homeduino and rules).
Any advice on how to debug this?

my devices:

{
  "id": "weather",
  "class": "OpenWeatherDevice",
  "name": "Weather Wijchen",
  "location": "Wijchen, Netherlands",
  "units": "metric",
  "lang": "en",
  "timeout": 300000
},
{
  "id": "forecast",
  "class": "OpenWeatherForecastDevice",
  "name": "Forecast 1 day for Wijchen",
  "location": "Wijchen, Netherlands",
  "units": "metric",
  "lang": "en",
  "timeout": 300000,
  "day": 1
}

All latest updates (openweather 0.8.13, pimatic 0.8.73)
thanks!

Welcome to the wonderful world of Pimatic
Did you check if the values of openweather have changed at all? If there is nothing to update, Pimatic won’t update either.

Yes I think I see that, when only a couple of the variables are updated.
But there are also times none get updated… Then after a couple of hours you’ll see all jump up (or down).
Is there a way to debug this?

@fuut openweather attributes will only be updated if the new value is different from the current value. So, it is normal behaviour, if some of the values are not updated within the update cycle.

@mwittig Thanks for the info.
Now trying the weather-max also (forecast.io). This data is more precise on my location Only the forecast is not yet finished.

@fuut We are currently working on an alternative “Forecast” implementation as part of the openweathermap plugin. For details see also http://forum.pimatic.org/topic/679/pimatic-openweather-openweatherforecastdevice-receives-wrong-data and https://github.com/josecastroleon/pimatic-openweather/issues/16

Your experiments using weather-max/forecast.io sound very interesting. Are you planning to make contribution? If you have some findings and/or results you are happy to share with us this will be highly appreciated.