Hello,
On Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 9:52:14 PM UTC-4, Xant wrote:
>
>
> I always honor Tom, Pat and Matthew Wall time and work towards WeeWX
> endeavour.
>
Agreed!
> 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
>
> As far as supporting yr.no, if you look on the contributors page at
https://hjelp.yr.no/hc/en-us/articles/206550249, they are almost entirely
Norwegian weather sources. So for anyone running WeeWX in Norway, I'm sure
this would be welcomed. So how does yr.no have a global perspective?
> 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).
>
That's true if one already has an API key, but for anyone who plans to
bring a site online and doesn't already have an API key, forecasting would
have to be disabled in the skin.
> 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!
>
Agreed. The only thing before releasing 1.1 is to do some more testing with
forecasting disabled in both light and dark modes.
-Bill
> ClearSkies!
> Xant
>
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