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I’ve found this api that supposedly is a 1 for 1 replacement for darksy
http://pirateweather.net/en/latest/. I’m using it in home assistant already. works great.
thoughts?
We’ve already switched to Apple Weatherkit. Apple bought DarkSky. It’s fairly easy to make the transition.
Although the weather service is shown as on-line and updated 2 hours ago, the message at the bottom of System Status shows”Unknown weather provider”. Details show Total Rain 0mm although 3mm rain fell yesterday. and ETO 0mm. Watering level is 0%.Don’t know whether to trust it or not?
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Steveyup, my water level has been at 0 percent for a week now. I don’t think the apple thing is working correctly.
I had similar issue. No watering for a week (since 04/01/23)
Weather adjustment is set to ETo
%watering returns a 0%Rebooted the device today (04/07) – now showing schedule starting for the next day (04/08).
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Last rain was 3 weeks ago. Last night rebooted OpenSprinkler, but today it still thinks the garden doesn’t need water. It is not clear if this is a problem with the weather source, or something else. Note I do have a WU account and the API key verifies. However, that data does not seem to be used in the actual ETo calculation or in the displayed current weather.
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We just switched to Apple Weatherkit as DarkSky is no longer available and we are aware ETo is not working properly. We will be fixing it asap. Thanks for your understanding. In the meantime you can temporarily switch to Zimmerman method.
We have addressed this issue. You can try again. Reboot your controller, or temporarily change the weather algorithm to a different one and change it back to ETo. See if it works.
That looks like it did the trick. Thanks.
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Hi Ray,
Restarted my device here, but the Weather Service Details looks OK except the rain level, which remains at 0 mm while it has rained quite significantly for the last 24 hours.
Last weather Service call shows “success” just a few minutes ago as I just restarted.I tried to change the system from ETo to Zimmerman. Then, I can see Total rain 6.1 mm.
Changing back to ETo though, Total rain comes back to 0. It seems there is a problem pulling rain level on the ETo method only…We will check, but I guess Zimmerman and ETo pulls different data. Zimmerman uses today’s weather data, ETo uses history data, which could explain the difference.
@Ray, I checked again, and clearly when selecting ETo, the system doesn’t report any rain (0 mm), while it has been raining quite a lot during the last 3-4 days here. It can’t be that rain history data could potentially be 0.
On Zimmerman, latest pull reports 13mm of rain in my location, which is about right.Can you file a support ticket with your configuration file attached? We need a specific location to track down this.
@Ray, any news on this subject?
Until resolution, the Eto model is not an option for all those with this issue.Sorry, still trying to track down the problem. We’ve got a surge of orders and several other things (including OTC connection) so we are a bit overwhelmed at the moment and things are progressing slowly. To be honest, I was hoping someone with programming skills can take a look at the weather code and perhaps point out something they find. My suspicion is that either it’s due to the ET part of the code pulling different API from weatherkit, or its a unit conversion problem. We will try to resolve it as quickly as we can.
Thanks fort the answer Ray.
I unfortunately don’t have the programming skills required.
If someone needs any tests, let me know. Otherwise I will stand by patiently.
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