Haiku Haiku stopped displaying weather on home page

[lupinglade]

Check the log window , there should be details on the rain advisory there including mm by day.

 

[serky]

There is:


2012-10-30 11:50:38 Refreshing weather for location: 29715…
2012-10-30 11:50:39 Rain Advisory: xx: Precipitation for Tue: 0.0mm
2012-10-30 11:50:39 Rain Advisory: xx: Precipitation for Wed: 0.0mm
2012-10-30 11:50:39 Rain Advisory: xx: Precipitation for Thu: 0.0mm
2012-10-30 11:50:39 Rain Advisory: xx: Precipitation for Fri: 0.0mm
2012-10-30 11:50:39 Rain Advisory: xx: Precipitation for Sat: 0.0mm
2012-10-30 11:50:39 Rain Advisory: xx: Setting "RainAdvisory" flag to: 0

The potential problem is that the weather is not working. I have a 30% chance of rain today. It seems like it could rain any minute but I still have a 0.0mm. Does it only work if it is raining or has rained?

Update: not working. it rained yesterday and the flag never turned on.

Thanks,

Jason

 

[lupinglade]

Please compare to this link http://www.worldweatheronline.com/v2/weather.aspx?q=29715

It appears the forecast really is 0.0 mm. Maybe they had some issues. The long term does show some actual values for the precipitation mm.

 

[serky]

hopefully it was bad info on their end and i can rely on their future forecasts to use for irrigation. i will report back when i am scheduled for rain and see if the flag gets turned on.

thanks,

jason

 

[serky]

Lupinglade,

On Saturday, for a window of time, the flag went to 4. By Sunday it was back to 0 but it ended up raining on Sunday. I know this is not something you control but how can it be made more reliable? I watered the lawn Sunday morning but probably shouldn't have. I know I could put a rain sensor but I prefer this method as it used to work.

Thanks,

Jason

 

[lupinglade]

We'll be tweaking it further. We'll see how we can make it more reliable. If you have any suggestions please post as well. Of course it can never be 100% reliable and sometimes it will be wrong, because the weather just isn't that predictable.

 

[serky]

It must be an issue with the world weather page. for example, http://www.worldweatheronline.com/v2/weather.aspx?q=29715 shows no chance of rain tuesday. the weather channels shows a 60% chance of rain tuesday. http://www.weather.com/weather/5-day/Fort+Mill+SC+29715:4:US.

any recommendations?

thanks,

jason

 

[lupinglade]

Yes, I'm not sure why. I would suggest contacting them as they may not know about the issue.

 

[serky]

I am getting this in the log. Even though Thursday's rain forecast is 9.3mm, the flag is getting set to 0. Maybe it has to do with the error?


2012-11-14 15:50:00 Error: could not retrieve weather XML: Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1001 "The request timed out." UserInfo=0x7fe165112690 {NSUnderlyingError=0x7fe16524efc0 "The request timed out.", NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=http://free.worldweatheronline.com/feed/weather.ashx?key=e531f3a70a154632121109&num_of_days=5&q=29715, NSErrorFailingURLKey=http://free.worldweatheronline.com/feed/weather.ashx?key=e531f3a70a154632121109&num_of_days=5&q=29715, NSLocalizedDescription=The request timed out.}
2012-11-14 15:50:00 Rain Advisory: Home: No weather forecast available!
2012-11-14 15:50:45 Home: Syncing stage 3: Controller Configuration…
2012-11-14 16:00:22 Home: Syncing stage 2: Rain Advisory…
2012-11-14 16:00:22 Refreshing weather for location: 29715…
2012-11-14 16:00:23 Rain Advisory: Home: Precipitation for Wed: 0.0mm
2012-11-14 16:00:23 Rain Advisory: Home: Precipitation for Thu: 9.3mm
2012-11-14 16:00:23 Rain Advisory: Home: Precipitation for Fri: 0.0mm
2012-11-14 16:00:23 Rain Advisory: Home: Precipitation for Sat: 0.0mm
2012-11-14 16:00:23 Rain Advisory: Home: Precipitation for Sun: 0.0mm
2012-11-14 16:00:23 Rain Advisory: Home: Setting "RainAdvisory" flag to: 0

 

[lupinglade]

The error was a timeout for just that one time. The other time it was refreshed successfully but since the mm is less than 25 it does not trigger the flag.

 

[serky]

Lupinglade,

I only copied one section. I am getting the error constantly. Also, the above example has 9.3 mm and it has to be 25mm to trigger a flag? That seems like a lot of rain. It is almost an inch of rain actually. Maybe you meant to set it at 2.5 mm? That seems much more reasonable to me.

Thanks,

Jason

 

[lupinglade]

We're working on improving the algorithm.

Update: Looks like what we will do in the future is set the flag to the amount of precipitation in the next 5 days, in millimeters. This will allow your program/script to check the flag and react as you see fit.