Trying to get rainfall values from openweather

Dashboard
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I'm looking for the syntax from openweather to dashbard.
the usual works: var msg6 = { payload:msg.payload.windspeed};
but not for 'rain'.
Looked in openweather but no luck.
thaks

2

Go read Msg.payload to influxdb and see if it helps

3

works well with msg.payload.humidity as the link suggests but no variable for rain, or rainfall.

4

If you use a debug node to look at the payload is the rain there?

5

No, it's not.
I went with darksky instead.

Thanks to you all.

6

I am just setting up a retic system in node red and going to incorporate rainfall darksky looks good but only a short term solution. Any ideas what you are going to replace darksky with now apple has bought it and discontinuing the API next year?

7

Where are you based ? For instance in Australia - the Australian BOM offers a free download/XLM feed for most areas (the depth and breadth of info differs based on region
Craig

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Yer I am in Perth. I there is a package node-bom which will get data from bom. I will have a look into this.

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Nope no package that i have found - i am getting most of my data through Home Assistant as there is some really good stuff over there for using BOM and then i pump it out to my NR instance.

I also have a basic flow that can pull down the BOM stuff and you can extract whatever you want from it - but it is a little fiddly

Craig

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I am HA user too, doing up retic system and wanted rainfall predictions + rainfall mm in last X days to make node red skip watering where needed.

11

Well have a look at this over here on the HA forums

Its a long read but will get you the info you want, you could then grab it and send it over to NR

They do some weird stuff with NR in HA - so i would suggest running a seperate instance rather than the one provided in the Integrations

Craig

Craig

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Rain has been added 3 days ago to the node-red integration: