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I have to admit Ive had my head stuck in the sand a bit re Chat GPT etc. wanting to try it but been afraid of it at the same.

That is the first example of it in action Ive seen I can see how it can be helpful to guide you to a solution but it appears it still requires the user to have a working knowledge and put in some effort to 1/ frame the request correctly then 2/ know enough to understand the result and how to deal with it.

Will it help us become smarter and enable us to learn more or dumb us down ;)

That was quiet enlightening

Ive just put together a basic module to display PWS data from Weather Underground since API’s are now only available for free to PWS owners.

https://github.com/saabman/MMM-WunderGround-PWS-Observations/

It just displays the current data from a specified PWS and you can select what data is displayed.

Thankyou Michael for dedicating the time to bring this project o where it is today.

May your new priorities and paths be fruitful.

Regards
Bernie

@harney thats a pitty the BOM doesnt have close data for your site.
I have found that all the regular weather providers (Open weather, darksky etc) forecasts and observations are less than adequate for Oz.

So I have been reworking the Weather Module from WallberryTheme to use Aus govs BOM data. getting observations was easier enough as they provide that in JSON format which makes it some what easy but they only provide XML data for forecasts and the format is different for every site :( so my plans to “release” my module have stalled. because it has to be customised for each site.

@harney

yes the XML issue was a problem but I got around that by downloading the XML then as sdetweil suggested using XLM2JS to convert the file to JSON which I could ten search for the relevant fields unfortunately its not very tidy and needs customizing for each site.

IF you want to have a look at how Ive done it the files are here
https://github.com/saabman/WallberryTheme/blob/master/WB-weather/README.md

I am not by any means a programmer - just kept hacking away at the weather module till it did what I wanted - Im sure there are better ways to do it… hopefully it is help full any way

@harney

Unfortunately BOM lately has made changes to their site which is preventing accessing their data claiming it’s scraping but they provide a JSON file which I’m accessing (for part of it anyway) so my module no longer works- I’ve changed things a couple of times to circumvent the issue but it keeps coming back so I’m going to look at other ways to access the data. One that looks promising is WillyWeather. It is a paid service based on the number of access’s billed monthly. But it appears to be very cheap - It looks like for one Magic Mirror accessing data from one weather station and radar image works out at less than $10 a year.
When accessing the BOM currently they return a message to fill in a request form and some one will make contact - I filled in their form a couple of months ago and am yet to receive a response. Maybe when they get the servers sorted out things might change….