I'd say OWM, simply because I see no way to get anything except metric/C from yr.no
On Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 9:11:43 PM UTC-4, Pat wrote: > > I'm sure the Belchertown skin could benefit from the forecasts plugin, but > Belchertown does more than that. It shows weather alerts for your location > as well as current conditions. The forecasting plugin doesn't provide those > 2 bits. For that you need a service, and if you're getting info from the > service (in my opinion), one stop shop for it (get the forecast too). > > As for maintaining a plugin base for each region/location, that's not > something I can develop or support right now. The JSON would have to be > formatted exactly for each service in order to support the current way of > updates. Again, this is a simple task for 1 provider who has all this data > for worldwide regions > > I understand that OWM could become the next DarkSky but I think it's the > best option for what we have right now. The free tier should be able to > provide enough data to replace DarkSky. > > It's just a matter of time on my end. > > > On Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 6:38:28 PM UTC-4, William Burton wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> On Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 4:34:46 PM UTC-4, Wes Witt wrote: >>> >>> how about implementing a design that allows for weather forecast >>> extensions/plugins. then regional plugins can be built and allow the user >>> to choose the weather forecast service that is best for them. this way you >>> don't need a single service that works for everyone. it can be very >>> difficult to find a service that works everywhere and if you can find one >>> it may result in a low bar terms of quality and features from the service. >>> >> >> I was thinking the exact same thing as it doesn't make sense for every >> skin author to have to implement forecasting from scratch. There are many >> API's and there won't be one that works for everyone everywhere. >> >> The weewx-forecast extension ( >> https://github.com/matthewwall/weewx-forecast), already handles the >> following weather forecasting services: >> >> US National Weather Service (NWS) >> the weather underground (WU) >> open weathermap (OWM) >> UK Met Office (UKMO) >> Aeris Weather >> World Weather Online (WWO) >> Dark Sky (DS) >> Zambretti >> >> The extension also handles tide predictions using xtide. >> >> >> My thought was to enhance the weewx-forecast extension to: >> >> >> - Output a generic JSON file that can be loaded via Ajax into a theme. As >> much as possible, the JSON would be generated in a manner that's consistent >> across different API implementations to make it easier to incorporate into a >> skin. >> - Output one or more include files that can be included into other skins. >> >> Skins like Belchertown can incorporate this output using either method as >> appropriate. The end result is it would be far easier for skin maintainers >> to expand forecasting options. >> >> The benefit to this approach is the ability to support many more options for >> forecasting more widely. However, a small drawback is users of WeeWX will >> have to install another extension and configure it in addition to the >> selected skin. >> >> -Bill >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/2cc9aa30-5803-46db-b3cd-157988b575ab%40googlegroups.com.
