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/deac1989-dd06-4872-9d80-950c482ccc77%40googlegroups.com.
