Add location to the Aeris entry in weewx.conf.
[[Aeris]]
client_id = XXX
client_secret = XXX
location = "Poway, CA"
>> On Apr 26, 2020, at 9:09 AM, David Barto <[email protected]> wrote:
> Brilliant. Now I get the forecast if I set the location to “Poway, CA.” and
> that works for me.
> Where in the configuration for Aeris would I change the location for getting
> their forecast for my city?
>
> David
>
>> On Apr 25, 2020, at 5:20 PM, John Kline <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Yikes. Forgot the diff. The line numbers won’t match, but this should be
>> easy to apply to your current forecast.py.
>>
>> diff --git a/bin/user/forecast.py b/bin/user/forecast.py
>> index d947fb3..2254fed 100644
>> --- a/bin/user/forecast.py
>> +++ b/bin/user/forecast.py
>> @@ -5033,9 +5033,9 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
>> help="specify the location")
>> parser.add_option("--api-key", dest="api_key", type=str,
>> metavar="KEY",
>> help="specify the api key")
>> - parser.add_option("--client-id", dest="client-id", type=str,
>> + parser.add_option("--client-id", dest="client_id", type=str,
>> metavar="ID", help="specify the client id")
>> - parser.add_option("--client-secret", dest="client-secret", type=str,
>> + parser.add_option("--client-secret", dest="client_secret", type=str,
>> metavar="SECRET", help="specify the client
>> secret")
>> parser.add_option("--filename", dest="filename", metavar="FILENAME",
>> help="file that contains forecast data",
>> @@ -5078,6 +5078,9 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
>> fcast = AerisForecast.download(
>> options.client_id, options.client_secret, options.loc)
>> print(fcast)
>> + elif options.method.lower() == 'aeris':
>> + fcast = AerisForecast.download(options.client_id,
>> options.client_secret, options.loc)
>> + print(fcast)
>> elif options.method.lower() == 'wwo':
>> fcast = WWOForecast.download(options.api_key, options.loc)
>> print(fcast)
>>
>>>> On Apr 25, 2020, at 4:59 PM, John Kline <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Here’s a diff showing the changes I had to make so that the command below
>>> will run.
>>>
>>> Please make those changes and then run the command again pointing to your
>>> changed file. You don’t even have to update the forecast.py that weewx is
>>> using. This is just so that you don’t get the method not supported error
>>> below when running directly.
>>>
>>> Of course, you also need to plug in your client-I’d and secret-key.
>>>
>>> BTW, you didn’t have to send me this error. I told you it wouldn’t work
>>> without modifying the code.
>>>
>>>>> On Apr 25, 2020, at 4:51 PM, David Barto <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Running Weewx 3.9.2.
>>>> Forecast skins/forecast/skin.conf: version = 3.3.2
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Magrathea:weewx-installed katherinebarto$
>>>> PYTHONPATH=/Users/shared/weewx/bin python bin/user/forecast.py --method
>>>> Aeris --action download --client-id XXX --client-secret YYY --loc
>>>> “32.98265 -117.0405"
>>>>
>>>> Returns:
>>>> unsupported forecast method Aeris
>>>>
>>>>> On Apr 25, 2020, at 2:48 PM, John Kline <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I switched from my free trial Aeris to a free one based on the thread you
>>>>> mention. I got back the same client ID and secret. It continues to work
>>>>> for me.
>>>>>
>>>>> You should be able to do something like the following to test:
>>>>>
>>>>> PYTHONPATH=/home/weewx/bin python3 bin/user/forecast.py --method Aeris
>>>>> --action download --client-id XXX --client-secret XXX--loc
>>>>> "37.431495,-122.110937"
>>>>>
>>>>> If you could do that, you could quickly see wether the issue is that no
>>>>> forecast is available for the location you requested.
>>>>>
>>>>> Alas, I notice that Aeris isn’t supported when running as main. I added
>>>>> the support to do that and fixed some bugs WRT command line arguments. I
>>>>> will add it to my fork, but I will need to test more.
>>>>>
>>>>> What version of WeeWX and the forecast plugin are you running?
>>>>>
>>>>> ALSO, PLEASE REPLY ON THE LIST RATHER THAN DIRECTLY TO ME.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Apr 25, 2020, at 12:23 PM, David Barto <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> galfert posted that you can get free Aeris forecasting:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The free Aeris Weather account is not advertised. You have to use the
>>>>>> link I provided to get in on the special "Contributor account" only for
>>>>>> those that contribute with their station to PWSweather.com.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This link: https://www.aerisweather.com/signup/pws/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----
>>>>>> So I signed up for Aeris through the pws, and got my 2 hashes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I added the Aeris data to weewx.conf and restarted.
>>>>>> The forecast page doesn't show any forecast for Aeris, while the
>>>>>> NWS does show up.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.kdbarto.org/weather/forecast/multiple-tables.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The log output for weewx is showing an error:
>>>>>> /var/log/system.log:Apr 25 11:17:16 Magrathea weewx[28709]: forecast:
>>>>>> AerisThread: Aeris: failed attempt 1 to download forecast: HTTP Error
>>>>>> 400: Bad Request
>>>>>> /var/log/system.log:Apr 25 11:17:16 Magrathea weewx[28709]: forecast:
>>>>>> WUThread: WU: failed attempt 1 to download forecast: HTTP Error 503:
>>>>>> Service Unavailable
>>>>>> /var/log/system.log:Apr 25 11:17:17 Magrathea weewx[28709]: forecast:
>>>>>> AerisThread: Aeris: failed attempt 2 to download forecast: HTTP Error
>>>>>> 400: Bad Request
>>>>>> /var/log/system.log:Apr 25 11:17:17 Magrathea weewx[28709]: forecast:
>>>>>> WUThread: WU: failed attempt 2 to download forecast: HTTP Error 503:
>>>>>> Service Unavailable
>>>>>> /var/log/system.log:Apr 25 11:17:17 Magrathea weewx[28709]: forecast:
>>>>>> AerisThread: Aeris: failed attempt 3 to download forecast: HTTP Error
>>>>>> 400: Bad Request
>>>>>> /var/log/system.log:Apr 25 11:17:17 Magrathea weewx[28709]: forecast:
>>>>>> AerisThread: Aeris: failed to download forecast
>>>>>> /var/log/system.log:Apr 25 11:17:17 Magrathea weewx[28709]: forecast:
>>>>>> AerisThread: Aeris: no forecast data for 32.983056,-117.04 from
>>>>>> http://api.aerisapi.com/forecasts/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Clearly I've not configured something correctly. Anyone want to point
>>>>>> out the error of my ways?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> David
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