In this case, the thing configuration will fail because the service will not return the data expected by the binding. It can happen that the service is not able to determine the station to use, for example when you select as location a city in which several stations are registered. Optional, the default value is 30 minutes and the minimum value is 5 minutes.įor the location parameter, different syntaxes are possible: Syntax Optional, the default is to use the language from the system locale. Language to be used by the Weather Underground service. Location to be considered by the Weather Underground service. The thing has a few configuration parameters: Parameter

The bridge only has one configuration parameter: ParameterĪPI key to access the Weather Underground service.

The binding has no configuration options, all configuration is done at Thing and Channel levels. If a bridge is correctly configured, the discovered thing will automatically go online.

If the system location is changed, the background discovery updates the configuration of 'Local Weather' automatically. If a system location is set, 'Local Weather' will be automatically discovered for this location. Each weather thing uses a bridge thing it cannot be set online if no bridge thing is defined. The second one is the weather thing, which represents the weather information for an observed location. The first one is the bridge thing, which represents the connection to the Weather Underground service through the API key. There are exactly two supported thing types. To use this binding, you first need to register and get your API key (opens new window). You may exceed this threshold only if you are or become a fee paying subscriber.īy using this binding, you confirm that you agree with the Weather Underground API terms and conditions of use (opens new window). WUL will monitor your daily usage of the API to determine if you have exceeded the free-use threshold by using an API key. The Weather Underground API is provided by The Weather Underground, LLC (WUL) free of charge but there is a daily limit and minute rate limit to the number of requests that can be made to the API for free (until 1). This binding uses the Weather Underground service (opens new window) for providing weather information for any location worldwide.

Weather underground the weather channel