yahooweather: Forecasts

[Sebastian Janzen]

Has anybody started on forecasts in OH2 yahoo weather binding?

[Sebastian Janzen]

And in this context: Can channels have config properties? As of the DTD, a thing definition's channel-type can have a config-description node. This would be the right place to put the forecast param on. Right?

[Kai Kreuzer]

Has anybody started on forecasts in OH2 yahoo weather binding?

Note that the Yahoo Weather binding is not in OH2, but in ESH. And as we use it as a „demo binding“ for the tutorial, we currently keep it rather simply - so the answer is: No, no support of forecasts in there.

There is actually also a problem with the Yahoo weather binding: The license of the service, see https://developer.yahoo.com/forum/Suggestions-for-YDN/Using-the-Weather-API-in-a/1257521972000-d658c7d6-e9eb-3959-9ed5-57b4d8699077/

For this reason, we might have to deliberately break or completely remove it from ESH…

So in general, I think it would be better to concentrate on Open Weather Map as a provider of weather information.

Regards,

Kai

[Kai Kreuzer]

Can channels have config properties? As of the DTD, a thing definition's channel-type can have a config-description node. This would be the right place to put the forecast param on. Right?

In theory yes, but as no one has used this yet, I would not count on it working smoothly already :-)

Regards,

Kai