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Make refefence to the Main Luup Wiki site for an example of how to use the Weather Plugin in a [Luup based] Scene

Introduction

The Weather plugin is a ​Luup component that captures, displays, and periodically updates Temperature and Humidity data based upon Vera's current ​Location.

How does it work

The plugin uses the Latitude/Longitude? values configured in Vera's ​Location settings, and data provided by the Unofficial Google Weather service, to retrieve:

  • Temperature - The Current temperature
  • Low Temperature - The estimated low temperature
  • High Temperature - The estimated high temperature
  • Humidity - The estimated humidity

Each of these values is presented as a Child Device of the Weather plugin, implementing the respective ​UPnP Service. They're all set to be visually grouped in the UI/Presentation.

Behind the scenes, the plugin uses Vera's Latitude and Longitude values, derived from the User-specified ​Location settings, to help form a URL to the Google Weather API. This URL call looks like:

​http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=,,,40980465,-72212690

The plugin selects elements from the XML output, and translates them into values that are set upon the respective Child Devices.

The Weather plugin retrieves the Weather data at startup, and again every 30 minutes after that.

Installation

Scene Scripting

The Weather Plugin exposes a number of Variables, as is illustrated in the Install instructions. These variables can be accessed in Luup scenes using code illustrated here:

Further examples can be found in the Discussion area referenced below.

Discussion

The Weather plugin is discussed in this forum thread, along with a lot of it's development history:

​http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php?topic=1435.0

Feel free to ask questions on that thread, as well as make any suggestions & contributions to the future development of the Weather plugin's functionality.

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