Hubitat DarkSky.net Weather Tile Night Icons

Mark_B · November 19, 2019, 2:53am

Well I finally got around to updating my old APIXU weather tile since the driver no longer works with Hubitat. The new DarkSky API seems to be working well with one exception…Regardless of the time of day it shows a sun icon instead of the moon when it was after sunset. I know there was a fix for this on the old driver…am I overlooking an obvious setting somewhere? Notice the screenshot below and the time…Here in New York we don’t often see the sun past 9:48pm lol. Thanks!

weather

josh · November 19, 2019, 3:10am

What version of the Dark Sky driver do you have installed? I’m still running the Dark Sky 1.2.4 driver and it reports the icons with the night variants as expected.

What is the forecastIcon or weatherIcon currently reporting in Hubitat for that device?

Mark_B · November 19, 2019, 3:29am

I’m running v1.2.8

Current States:
city : Horseheads, NY
condition_code : nt_mostlycloudy
condition_text : Mostly Cloudy
condition_icon_only : 29.png
condition_icon_url : https://tinyurl.com/y6xrbhpf/29.png
forecastIcon : fog

josh · November 19, 2019, 3:43am

The condition_code looks fine, but the forecast icon is missing the nt_ prefix. Have you tried 1.2.4 as linked above?

Mark_B · November 19, 2019, 3:46am

I don’t see an archive anywhere of older releases.

josh · November 19, 2019, 3:57am

It’s the link in my original post:

github.com

HubitatCommunity/DarkSky.net-Weather-Driver/blob/3af43eb2f4f84847e301702bee5ee46b19ea72b8/DarkSky.net Weather Driver.groovy

/*
   DarkSky.net Weather Driver
   Import URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HubitatCommunity/DarkSky.net-Weather-Driver/master/DarkSky.net%20Weather%20Driver.groovy
   Copyright 2019 @Matthew (Scottma61)
 
   Many people contributed to the creation of this driver.  Significant contributors include:
   - @Cobra who adapted it from @mattw01's work and I thank them for that!
   - @bangali for his original APIXU.COM base code that much of the early versions of this driver was 
     adapted from. 
   - @bangali for his the Sunrise-Sunset.org code used to calculate illuminance/lux and the more
     recent adaptations of that code from @csteele in his continuation driver 'wx-ApiXU'.
   - @csteele (and prior versions from @bangali) for the attribute selection code.
   - @csteele for his examples on how to convert to asyncHttp calls to reduce Hub resource utilization.
   - @bangali also contributed the icon work from
     https://github.com/jebbett for new cooler 'Alternative' weather icons with icons courtesy
     of https://www.deviantart.com/vclouds/art/VClouds-Weather-Icons-179152045.
    - @storageanarchy for his Dark Sky Icon mapping and some new icons to compliment the Vclouds set.
 
   In addition to all the cloned code from the Hubitat community, I have heavily modified/created new
   code myself @Matthew (Scottma61) with lots of help from the Hubitat community.  If you believe you

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Mark_B · November 19, 2019, 4:10am

Well I feel silly. I swapped it out but it appears that the old driver is stuck in the Hubitat cache…I’ll try rebooting it and see if that doesn’t make any difference. I’ll keep you posted. Thanks!

Mark_B · November 19, 2019, 4:16am

Well it worked! But…I’m not sure now if it was the rolled back driver or the fact that I turned on “Display attributes required by SharpTools.io?”

thoughts?

josh · November 19, 2019, 4:45am

Yeah, it could have been that the forecastIcon value that you had in your driver was a stale value if the preference wasn’t enabled.

You’ll definitely want the SharpTools preference enabled in the Dark Sky driver to get all the relevant attributes reporting.

Is there both a forecastIcon and weatherIcon attribute being reported now? Each prefixed with nt_ during the evening?

Mark_B · November 19, 2019, 4:54am

Yup…I have both attributes now showing in the current states dialog. Issue Resolved. thanks Josh!