Idea: Alternative weather providers

[denilsonsa]

Instead of scraping, the watchface could try some well-supported API. Examples:

• Met.no (also used in Home Assistant)
• OpenWeatherMap (they even claim it is easy to migrate from DarkSky API)
• Buienradar (minutely rain forecast only for a couple of countries)
• drops.live (AKA Buienalarm, minutely rain forecast, but sadly no API)
• AccuWeather (Limited Trial access allows each developer up to 50 calls per day.)

You may even want to take a look at the weather services already implemented in Home Assistant.

[mattrossman]

Is there a particular one of these that you are keen on supporting? I'm pretty happy already with the forecasts from Weather Underground, at least in the US.

[denilsonsa]

I've been using forecaswatch2 for just a day, and WU seems to be working fine as well. (I used the older watchface for months until it stopped working.)

I am confused by what you mean "hacky workaround" on the README page. I thought you were scraping the website or using a non-official API. I thought the hacky workaround was unstable. If it is stable enough, then there isn't much to do here in this issue.

This issue is mostly a suggestion/research of alternative providers, in case WU and DarkSky stop working. If I were to choose to implement extra providers, I'd go for the first two. (met.no seems reliable and widely used in Home Assistant; while OpenWeatherMap should be simple to implement, based on existing DarkSky code.)

[mattrossman]

The current implementation has been stable for the past year or so, but if it breaks at some point I'll look into those suggestions :)

[clach04]

@denilsonsa or @mattrossman please could you update the description to mark OpenWeatherMap as completed and available in v1.19?

[denilsonsa]

Done, updated the description with checkboxes.