hemtjanst / vader

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Väder

Väder exposes the "feels like" temperature and relative humidity as returned by the Wunderground API as a temperature and a humidity sensor to HomeKit.

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The Wunderground API has been terminated: https://apicommunity.wunderground.com/weatherapi/topics/end-of-service-for-the-weather-underground-api. As such this partciular tool no longer works and the repository has been archived.

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Installation

The installation is pretty simple, go install it, get an API token for Wunderground and then point it at your MQTT broker.

go install github.com/hemtjanst/vader/cmd/vader
vader -token XYZ -mqtt.address broker.mydomain.tld:1883

The free plan on Wunderground allows for 500 calls per day and 10 calls per minute. väder defaults to 1 call per hour, so there's plenty left to play around with.

Please note that using go install will grab the latest version of all the dependencies which can cause problems. As such a Gopkg.toml and associated lock file is provided to be used with dep ensure. After that you can go build -o vader cmd/vader/main.go.

Configuration

It's required to pass in -token which has to be a Wunderground API token.

By default we will refresh the weather data once per hour. It's currently not possible to configure it to poll more often but you can decrease the update frequency by passing in an integer bigger than 1 to -refresh.

See the --help for all possible options.

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