Ambient Weather Parser

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March 27, 2019 00:12

I made a parser for ambientweather.net which has been working for me, so I figured I'd release it so there's another PWS source option besides WUnderground.

https://github.com/WillCodeForCats/rainmachine-amweather

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  RainMachine Nicholas June 08, 2020 05:25

  For HD Family beta there is indeed a change in these functions, namely we have removed the old function and added 2 new ones:

  def convertRadiationFromWattsToMegaJoulesDay(radiation):
  def convertRadiationFromWattsToMegaJoulesHour(radiation):

  I think it will be best to provide your own local function for these until we release the update as stable for all models.

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  David LaComb June 18, 2020 13:41

  Maybe I missed this somewhere, but is RainMachine planning to add built-in support for Ambient Weather like other weather services in Settings?

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  Seth July 02, 2020 00:55

  FYI the latest version on github fixes the issue in versions newer than 4.0.1129

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  Jeffry Battles October 13, 2021 16:05

  I just installed an Ambient WS2000 last week, installed this parser and got it to work thanks to the help in this thread. My question is, how frequently does the parser check the data produced by the weather station. I use NOAA for forecasting, I removed all other previously set weather stations from WUnderground that I was using prior to this and replaced them with my personal weather station represented on WUnderground. All in the hopes that I was getting the most precise data to my Rain Machine as possible. I see that the weather recorded in the rain machine via the mixer et. al. is showing WUnderground (my station) is reporting much more frequently than the Ambient Weather Parser I got from here (github). Any insight would be appreciated. So far, everything does seem to be working fine otherwise.

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  Seth October 13, 2021 16:10

  Every 6 hours.

  You can just change the line:

  parserInterval = 60 * 60 * 6 # every 6 hours

  If you want it to be different.

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  Jeffry Battles October 13, 2021 16:11 (Edited October 13, 2021 16:12)

  Thank you for the incredibly quick reply. Any harm in having it report every hour? Or do you feel it isn't necessary?

  Edit: And I'm not much of a coder, do I change the 6 to 1?

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  Seth October 13, 2021 16:18

  I don't think it'll hurt anything. If you look at earlier versions, the interval was shorter. But I didn't see any benefit to it on my system so I changed the default to match other parsers.

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  Seth October 13, 2021 16:20

  parserInterval is just a value in seconds, so either change 6 to 1 or change the whole thing to "parserInterval = 3600" (60 * 60 = 3600). Whatever reads easier for you.

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  Will Rosenberry March 18, 2022 12:48 (Edited March 18, 2022 12:53)

  I just installed this (again).  I tried both the GitHub version where I can change the poll time and the Rainmachine supplied one.

  Why it is reporting 4 hours in the future?  Its 8:00 AM edt, I refresh weather data for ambient. I look at any weather chart and it shows the current temp at 12:00 (4 hours from now).  I realize with the time change that is GMT time, but I see nothing in the code to change to make it not read Z time.

  (I would like to change the poll time because here in FL it can have popup thunder storms and still run a schedule later that evening because rain machine never knew it rained).

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