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Config: Weather forecast

hhees edited this page Jan 26, 2020 · 10 revisions

Setup you the weather forecast service

The weather forecast service is using the rest api from api.weather.mg.

How to enable or disable

To use this service, you need a custom login.

Private usage is for free, so contact them to obtain your login data.

After you got it, set your username and password in the variables vault_weather_api_username and vault_weather_api_password in the file config/myserver/vault/vault.yml

If the service is configured, you get a weather forecast overview in the webui and it makes the forecast data available for openhab.

Forecast

To disable this service, just set the variable vault_weather_api_username to an empty string.

Example usage

Additional use cases are, an optimized heating control which takes care about forecast data or a embedded visualization in a wall mounted tablet.