Pull Local Weather Data #51
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Hi @oralallen82 - I like this idea. My challenge is figuring out how the best way to add this (which Weather API) as most have sign-up requirements. I think we would want this part of the setup script. If anyone has a good idea or suggestions, please let me know. |
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A new branch has been created to work on this idea. This is also be tracking in #42. Update: I have created a branch called "weather" that is my running test configuration. Go here if you want to check it out. Keep in mind that it isn't integrated into setup.sh or upgrade.sh yet. I'm still testing the new container. Here is my approach:
Example overlay:
This only show the "temperature" and "clouds" (a % of cloudliness) data but there are many others available that may be interesting - I'm thinking:
Example weather data available from
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This is really awesome. I'd definitely love to test this out. Without breaking my existing configuration. |
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This is an inspired idea, I truely love it. I would be keen on testing it and as my installation is only a few weeks old I'm less concerned about rebuilding it from scratch if required. |
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Thanks @mcbirse - good points! It also looks like the 'alerts' are not going to show up in weather but I think that is fine as well. Based on the https://openweathermap.org/current definitions, I noticed there is also data on snowfall. I added that as well thought I don't think I will see much data on that in SoCal. 😁 Still, I believe it could be useful information for solar. I made the updates tonight and uploaded the new version (0.1.0) of weather411. Quick instructions to pull down the latest: # Remove old version
docker stop weather411
docker rm weather411
docker images | grep weather411 | awk '{print $3}' | xargs docker rmi -f
# Restart the stack
docker-compose -f powerwall.yml up -dCheck this for current weather data: http://localhost:8676/ and |
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I've updated to version 0.1.0 and data is displayed in the test page http://localhost:8676/ I haven't updated the panel yet, work is being demanding this week :) |
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I have updated to v0.1.0 as well and all is working well! Awesome work Jason. 👍 I submitted a pull request to remove e.g. http://localhost:8676/dew_point returns an error |
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Great catch @mcbirse . Thank you! I'm going to move on to updating the |
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I completed a first pass at the updated scripts. I added I posted this in issue #42 to welcome more beta testers. BETA Testers...or should I say, "Storm chasers"? 😄 If you want to try the weather data feature, here is how you can check it out. Highly recommended: back up your data first. # from the Powerwall-Dashboard folder
# First pull down the latest code from Github
git pull
# Second, switch to the weather branch (the BETA code)
git checkout weather
# Third, run the weather setup script and follow instructions
./weather.shOpenWeatherMap NoteAfter you sign up for the free OpenWeatherMap.org account, make sure you check your email and verify. Also, the API Key you get may not be active right away. It could take up to 2 hours but in my recent test it was working within 10 minutes. Please let me know your experience! Dashboard UpdateYou need to install the newer
Hopefully you will soon see something like this:
Issues
How's the weather out there? 😁Before I release this as |
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Good progress so far. Unfortunately I'm as much help on Grafana as a blind
pilot 😁.
…On Mon, Aug 15, 2022, 8:36 PM Jason Cox ***@***.***> wrote:
So far, so good! No memory leaks:
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No clouds here in SoCal today so less exciting, but temp data looks good.
I'm recording and displaying the data in °C but expect several will want
°F. The problem with both is that Grafana only allows for two axis
(currently kW and % on the live "Energy Usage" graph). Anyone with Grafana
kung-fu skills know how to add a third (°C)? For now, I've aligned the
temperature to the % axis (-100 to 100 range):
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Weather graphs from last 24hr:
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No worries! Posting here for anyone else who might know. It works as-is. I'm just a bit OCD about units. 😉 |
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I added weather411 to my Powerwall Dashboard and am seeing errors in the stats: Every time I refresh, the 'gets' goes up by 2 and the 'errors' goes up by 1. Should I be concerned? When I first start the weather411 container I get 3 attempts to connect to influxdb and then an error writing to influxdb. Is this because the database container isn't up and ready before the first attempts to write to it? If I just stop and start the weather411 container, I don't get the inital write error (but I still get the errors in the stats output). My installation is customized and I don't use the install scripts. I have to merge all the changes into my existing setup, so I may have messed something up when adding the new features. |
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Hi @youzer-name! Are you seeing the weather data in Grafana? The errors you see show up in the stats are due to the browser calling for favicon.ico which is not a valid API call for weather411. I should probably just add that URL as valid and send back a blank file. Yes, weather411 needs influxdb to be up and stable before it starts. It is the same as telegraf. The error is non-fatal and weather411 will keep trying. If you want to add the delay yourself, you can use a bash script like this (from # Service Running Helper Function
running() {
local url=${1:-http://localhost:80}
local code=${2:-200}
local status=$(curl --head --location --connect-timeout 5 --write-out %{http_code} --silent --output /dev/null ${url})
[[ $status == ${code} ]]
}
# Wait for influxdb
echo "Waiting for InfluxDB to start..."
until running http://localhost:8086/ping 204 2>/dev/null; do
printf '.'
sleep 5
done
echo " up!"
# Start weather411 and telegraf etc. |
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Thanks @jasonacox - Yes I'm seeing the data in Grafana now. I had previously been displaying OpenWeather data from another app's local database in Grafana, but it's nice to have this all self-contained now. |
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So the reported "feels like" temperature is higher than actual, correct? Do you have high humidity at the moment? I think that is perfectly valid and possible if you also have very high humidity. Would be interesting to know what the humidity percentage shows in bottom weather panel? |
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The reason I asked is that there isn't an indication for this on
the dashboard. I have temperature max and solar, nothing for "Real feel" I
am aware that humidity plays a factor in the real feel. Growing up in the
Caribbean I can attest to that.
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So the reported "feels like" temperature is higher than actual, correct?
Do you have high humidity at the moment? I think that is perfectly valid
and possible if you also have very high humidity. Would be interesting to
know what the humidity percentage shows in bottom weather panel?
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You mean in the list of values when you hover the "feels like" value is not shown, and it is not shown in the "max" bottom values? So, you could edit the panel to add those - I had already done that in mine so I could see the feels like temp: Or maybe suggest this as an improvement to be added to the default panel JSON if everyone thinks this is an improvement? (I do) If you want to do that yourself though, edit the Energy Usage panel: |
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I'll follow your lead and edit myself. It would be a good enhance for others who may not be interested in manually editing. I know @jasonacox has done a great deal of work from my request to beta then live. |
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Yes, I think it would be a good enhancement personally. There is an argument for "information overload" perhaps - but I get the feeling most people using the dashboard like to see more data, not less. 😄 I also changed the order of mine to Clouds, Temp, Feels Like, as it made more sense - but that was done by editing the JSON directly: |
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That does make sense how you have it ordered, I may take a stab at it and see if I can pull off editing the .JSON |
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Utilize nearby weather station data to see how temp etc. affects production. An option to enter the Weather Underground station ID and have an option to overlay that on the production map, if that's too data intensive show highs/lows.
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