Configuring RainMachine to use OpenWeatherMap parser.

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Jeff D

August 06, 2020 17:39

Hello,

I've registered for OpenWeatherMap and have my API and URL. I can retrieve weather data by calling the URL successfully but the RainMachine is just stuck in a "Retrying: URL open fail" state

I'm assuming the format I'm putting in is wrong or something. I've tried only the key, only the config values and the full URL and it all fails.

For example this is the URL format I'm using:

https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?d=<city code>&appid=<api key>

I was able to retrieve weather with it via normal calls, I just can't figure out how to get the RainMachine to successfully use the call. Any help would be great.

Thanks.

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  RainMachine Nicholas August 07, 2020 06:30

  I just checked on my RainMachine, I added the API key from OpenWeatherMap to the existing OpenWeatherMap Parser (it's something like this: 4b191c42cf4b92c6fd15715f18c2b219), checked Enable, press SAVE and then pressed REFRESH ALL. Worked fine.

  For OpenWeatherMap there is no URL to enter. Are you using the OpenWeatherMap service that comes default with RainMachine or are you trying to develop your own parser ?

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