Weather and the Smart Home

[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?