Weather and the Smart Home

[system]

From knowing if you should grab a jacket before you head out to getting notified if the windows were left open and it's going to rain, there's a ton of great use cases for integrating weather into your smart home experience.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.sharptools.io/weather-and-the-smart-home/

[Pierre_Roy]

Is they’re a way to get the outdoor temperature like a,arthings with sharp tools ? I would like to use it in order to change my ecobee to heat or cool during the night ?

I can’t find this feature

[josh]

A common approach for using weather data in rules is to get the data from a weather device.

This previously was much more common in SmartThings, but it’s less common to see weather ‘devices’ in SmartThings nowadays.

Instead, a common approach is to get weather data from a service like Open Weather Map or OpenMeteo. Some examples for the former are available here:

Rules and Expressions with Open Weather API

Yes, there were a few other posts where people are querying the various Open Weather APIs. Here’s a few reference threads: Edit: I can’t seem to find it now, but someone had also recently done something with the Open Weather API and they were using the new expressions feature. @Jason_K_Jennings was that perhaps you?