New Parser for Australia

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Richard Mann

July 30, 2018 22:15

Hi,

I have written a parser for Australia based on the feed from willyweather.com.au.

Instructions and code can be found here: https://github.com/safepay/rainmachine

Willy Weather is a commercial API that uses the Bureau of Meteorology data and wraps it in a modern Json API framework that is easy for developers to consume. The first 5000 calls are free, then the cost varies based on data requested, but is less than $0.05 per 1000 calls.

This parser detects your location based on your lat/long settings and suggests the closest station ID's. You then enter and save the station ID of your choice and the parser does the rest.

I hope that this can assist anyone else looking for a local Australian weather source.

Cheers.

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  Nick January 22, 2023 23:15

  From the error message "<urlopen error [Errno 7] No address associated with hostname>" it look like the system is having trouble with DNS when trying to turn the hostname into an IP.
  Not sure if you can see the DNS settings via the web interface but you could try via SSH.

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  Jayson January 23, 2023 08:42

  G'day Richard,

  No problems at all, and understandable.  Thank you very much for developing the parser in the first place.

  Jon and Nick - Yep, rebooted and same problem, but I think Nick has hit the nail on the head saying it may be a DNS issue as the standard parser gives the same error and I may have encounted the problem that's described here - https://support.rainmachine.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360051423613-DNS-resolution-issues-bad-default-network-config

  I'll do some reading and figure out what commands to run via SSH and see if that fixes it.  I may try and do a factory reset/restore too.

  Cheers

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  Jayson January 24, 2023 10:17

  Just an update on the problem I had.

  I did a reset to factory defaults via the rainmachine touchscreen.  During the reset the rainmachine asked me if I wanted to keep the restore settings that it had saved - I answered yes to that.  Then it started the reset to factory defaults process, which then prompted me to set the rainmachine up again.

  During the set up process it asked me if I wanted to restore the configuration file that I told it to keep, and that restored all the programs and zone info.

  Once that was done I could tell it had fixed the problem I was having - it could now see the internet again :)

  I then had to set up the amazing Willy Weather parser with my API key and station id and save.

  It was a pretty easy process and didn't take long.  The hardest part was typing the info in using the touch screen on the rainmachine!

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