Weather Provider

The Weather Provider gets data and several additional information about the weather from different weather services.

Configuration

  • Service Provider
    Use one of the following weather service providers:

    OpenWeather

    See OpenWeather

    AccuWeather

    See AccuWeather

    Weather API

    See Weather API

    Visual Crossing

    See Visual Crossing

    MET Norway

    See MET Norway

    Not all providers support all data queries, see the data queries table below.

  • Location
    The GPS coordinates of the location to get the weather for.
    Coordinates must be in Decimal degrees (DD) format of latitude, longitude, e.g. 41.40338, 2.17403. Decimal separator is a dot.

  • Update Interval
    The refresh interval time like 1h or 8h.
    Default is 2h.

    Note
    The minimum interval time is one or two hours depending on the subscription plan.
  • Localization

    • Units
      Units of temperature, wind speed and visibility data:

      Unit Temperature Wind Speed Visibility

      US

      Fahrenheit

      mph

      miles

      UK

      Celsius

      mph

      miles

      Metric

      Celsius

      km/h

      km

      Base

      Kelvin

      m/s

      meters

    • Language Code
      ISO639 Language code for localized text and messages, like en for English, fr for French etc.

Query

  • Status
    Returns the weather data status:

    Text Numeric Description

    N/A

    0

    No weather data received yet, no data available

    Excellent

    1

    Weather data is valid

    Fail

    5

    Error getting weather data

  • Data queries

    Query Description OpenWeather AccuWeather Weather API Visual Crossing MET Norway

    Location Name

    Resolved location name

    City name

    GPS coordinates in DD format

    Location name

    Resolved address

    GPS coordinates in DD format

    Icon

    The weather icon name which can be used as input for the Icon Facelet

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Condition

    The actual weather condition as text

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Temperature

    The actual temperature.

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Temperature Feels Like

    Actual temperature which accounts for the human perception of weather.

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Not supported

    Minimum Temperature

    Service dependent

    Minimum temperature at the moment. This is minimal currently observed temperature within large megalopolises and urban areas.

    Minimum temperature observed over the past 24 hours.

    Minimum temperature for the day.

    Minimum temperature for the day.

    Not supported

    Maximum Temperature

    Service dependent

    Maximum temperature at the moment. This is maximal currently observed temperature within large megalopolises and urban areas.

    Maximum temperature observed over the past 24 hours.

    Maximum temperature for the day.

    Maximum temperature for the day.

    Not supported

    Pressure

    Atmospheric pressure at sea level in hPa.

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Humidity

    Relative humidity as percentage

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Visibility

    Distance at which distant objects are visible

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Not supported

    Cloudiness

    Cloud cover as percentage

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    UV Index

    UV index from 0 - 10

    Not supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Not supported

    Wind Speed

    Average wind speed

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Wind Direction

    Wind direction in degrees, 0 - 359

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Sunrise

    Sunrise time at the location.
    Param 1 sets the time format of the text representation. See Time Format for details.
    If empty, the default ISO format "yyyy-MM-dd’T’HH:mm:ss.SSS" is used.
    Timezone of the weather location is used.

    Supported

    Not supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Not supported

    Sunset

    Sunset time at the location.
    Param 1 sets the time format of the text representation. See Time Format for details.
    If empty, the default ISO format "yyyy-MM-dd’T’HH:mm:ss.SSS" is used.
    Timezone of the weather location is used.

    Supported

    Not supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Not supported

  • Data Set Time
    The time when the data set was taken.

    Text Numeric

    Time in the format specified by Param 2

    Milliseconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC + Timezone

    • Param 2
      The time format of the text representation. See Time Format for details.
      If empty, the default ISO format yyyy-MM-dd’T’HH:mm:ss.SSSxxx is used.

  • Update Time
    The Time of the last update.

    Text Numeric

    Time in the format specified by Param 2

    Milliseconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC + Timezone

    • Param 2
      The time format of the text representation. See Time Format for details.
      If empty, the default ISO format yyyy-MM-dd’T’HH:mm:ss.SSSxxx is used.