Configuration

After installation and obtaining the DarkSky API key you should configure the plugin using the Settings tab.

Normally you only need to enter the DarkSky API key in the DarkSky Provider Key field.

In case you want to report weather from a different location that your Vera you have to provide the Location Latitude and Location Longitude values of that alternative location. You can install multiple copies of the plugin and use different locations for each.

The update interval determines how often a call to the DarkSky API is made. The current weather data is updated at DarkSky every five minutes, so shorter than that is not useful.

Language determines the language of the condition messages. It does not change the plugin language.

When the units are set to auto the units of your location will be used. You can select an alternative units display.

For more details on these settings and how they impact the units of the reported parameters have a look at the DarkSky Weather API Documentation.

Using Forecast days you can indicate how many days of forecast data to process and store in variables. When selecting No forecast only current weather data is processed. The One day forecast will add values stored as Today..., e.g. TodayTemperatureMax, TodayPressure. Two days will add Tomorrow.... Days 3 - 7 will show as Forecast.3.... to Forecast.7...

In Display line 1 and Display line 2 you can select what parameters will show in the main device. The defaults are Current Conditions and Current Pressure, but you can select others like Wind values, Apparent Temperature, etc.

In the Child devices multi select you can select the current values you want a separate sensor device created for. Hold the Ctrl-key to select or un-select multiple. The child devices will be created or removed after a Luup reload. A number of the sensors will show in the Vera and Imperihome apps. By default, no child devices are created.

If you change any of the above settings, the plugin will pick up the new values at the next scheduled update. If you want to changes to become effective immediately, or changed the Child device click the Luup Reload button.

In case of issues you can set the Log level to Debug. More detailed messages will be written to the Vera log file instantly, no need to click the Luup Reload button. You can check the log file by typing http://[your Vera IP]/cgi-bin/cmh/log.sh?Device=LuaUPnP in your browser.

After configuring the weather data will start flowing. The Control tab will show a number of the retrieved parameters.