I always honor Tom, Pat and Matthew Wall time and work towards WeeWX
endeavour.
DarkSky has been a good resource and nice graphics. Now sold ("Good for
them, Bad for everybody else....").
There are alternatives. And as Pat correctly pointed out, the "replacement"
needs to be of Global perspective (I guess this eliminates some of the
obvious "gov" choices).
- OpenWeather: a good possible alternative, but besides the catchy name,
is not much that "open" (and charge for some); it might suffice for usual
WeeWX applications, but it makes me uncomfortable to have constraints
regarding data access, and future developments
(https://openweathermap.org/price)
- YR.no: considering Global perspective, still my pick... completely
free, excellent service and reliable
But an extra note... let's NOT get too crazy about this right now... the
DarkSky API still goes aaalll the way towards end-of-2021. We ALL have MUCH
to think nowadays other than this (quarantine and all).
Pat said: "Maybe it's a good thing I haven't released 1.1 yet!".
If changing API is easily done (and you really really bored at home), then
do it.
Otherwise... Pat, you have a newborn, and the whole World (literally) at
stand still. Nobody (I mean nobody) now have a current "plan", and all is
on hold..... End-of-2021 seems really really far considering WeeWX,
Belchertown and API perspective.
Let's move-on for now.... get some peace-of-mind and release 1.1 (as is
with current API), and let's talk back again on this sometime in 2021!
ClearSkies!
Xant
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