Bloomsky Weather Station

schapper05 · February 5, 2016, 2:51pm

Yongfeng_Zhang:

Hi, since I see a lot of people being not clear about how the device works, I’d like to briefly explain it here.

The device takes a picture and does the other measurements about every 5 minutes. It then uploads the image along with the data to our server. It will stop uploading pictures at night, but the other data won’t stop updating. It’s 24 hrs a day, 7 days/week. If you call the API at night, the image URL will be the last one taken before dark.

We define ‘night’ as half an hour past sunset. We don’t use the luminance sensor to tell it. We calculate the sunset and sunrise time with the lat, lon, utc and dst of the device. So the device stops updating pictures half and hour after sunset, and restarts it half an hour before sunrise. The time-lapse video will be generated about 45 minutes after sunset.

And the luminance sensor is very direction-sensitive. The hole that lets the light in is small. So if you want to use the data in a sensible way, you need to adjust the direction to avoid direct sunlight, reflections, moonlight etc. The luminance sensor is located right to the camera, or left. For this reason, we didn’t show the data in the app, it’s more a reference. Remember that the camera, LUX sensor and UV sensor as whole is adjustable. You can move it up and down.

And a couple of articles about setting up devices:

https://bloomsky.desk.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2320558-i-set-up-my-device-but-it-shows-as-offline

https://bloomsky.desk.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2320512-"sorry-your-bloomsky-has-failed-to-connect-correctly-would-you-like-to-try-again-"-error-message

To minimize clutter, If you would like to share your weather ID information please use this link. Thank you!

You can still apply for a free Bloomsky(costs shipping ~$20ish) here. “Apply by Wednesday, February 17th at 11:59pm PST to qualify.”

@Slagle Has been kind enough to offer the following Device type and smart app:

Short Instructions:

After correctly adding Bloomsky (Connect) app in mobile, Smartapp should create a device.

Service Manager(Bloomsky (Connect))!!!

Now all you have to do is install the service manager and you’re good to go! You will not need the “Scheduler” app anymore either, it’s done within the service manager.

This should work for multiple devices too. Don’t have multiple devices so I can’t test that, so don’t castrate me if it doesn’t work.

Make sure to uninstall the old device before copying in the new DTH code.

The service manager(Bloomsky (Connect)) sets all the correct info for the device. No need to do anything other than hit done within the connect app.(Bloomsky (Connect) should add a device in your list.)

If you changed anything in the IDE for the device is recommend uninstalling and reinstalling.

github.com

tslagle13/SmartThingsPersonal/blob/master/devicetypes/tslagle13/bloomsky.src/bloomsky.groovy

/**
*  Device: Bloomsky
*
*  This DTH requires the BloomSky (Connect) app (https://github.com/tslagle13/SmartThingsPersonal/blob/master/smartapps/tslagle13/bloomsky-connect.src/bloomsky-connect.groovy)
*
*  Version History:  
*
*  2.1.9 - 06/28/2017 - Using UV from STORM if present and new 24hRain data.
*  2.1.8 - 05/03/2017 - UI improvements.
*  2.1.7 - 02/06/2017 - Fixed background colors for Temperature in Celsius
*  2.1.6 - 02/03/2017 - Added tiles for Wind and Rain. Using Temp unit from Location (removed from preferences)
*  2.1.5 - 02/01/2017 - WindDirection validation fixed
*  2.1.4 - 01/30/2017 - Temperature Bug Fixes
*  2.1.3 - 01/30/2017 - Minor Bug Fixes for STORM data
*  2.1.2 - 01/27/2017 - Added Unit options
*  2.1.1 - 01/25/2017 - Added STORM capabilities (testing)
*  2.1.0 - 01/15/2017 - UI updated (by RudiP)
*  2.0.3 - Updated BloomSky API references
*  2.0.2 - Fixed DST issue and display time in AM/PM
*  2.0.1 - Fixde issue with pollster

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github.com

tslagle13/SmartThingsPersonal/blob/master/smartapps/tslagle13/bloomsky-connect.src/bloomsky-connect.groovy

/**
*  BloomSky (Connect)
*
*  Version History:  
*
*  1.0 - 01/25/2017 - Storm Integration Testing
*  0.2 - remove logging option. Just log all the time. It's all good.
*  0.1 - Initial Version
*
*  Copyright 2016 Tim Slagle
*
*  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except
*  in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
*
*      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
*  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed
*  on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License
*  for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
*

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Long Instructions on Installation after adding the Bloomsky (Connect) Smartapp and Bloomsky Device Type in the IDE:

Thanks for the in-depth write up @keltymd! All bolds below are emphasis by me, Italics are my comments.

keltymd:

In your web browser go to http://dashboard.bloomsky.com

Log in with your email address and password you used to register with Bloomsky

Click Developers at the bottom of the left had column

Copy your API key. (I Swear I entered my api key correctly like 3 times as soon as I emailed myself a copy and copy pasted it went through…)

I recommend you email the API key (can’t emphasize this enough, it’s the most likely spot of failure) to an email address on your smartphone so you can paste it in the next steps to prevent Fat fingering it.

In the Smartthings app on your smartphone click Marketplace and scroll to the bottom of SmartApps

Click

Find BloomSky (Connect) and select it

Paste or type (careful with this it’s case sensitive) your API in the API field and click Done

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After this step the Bloomsky (Connect) App should create a device found on your network. The name wil be Bloomsky***** with the stars being randomly generated characters.

Please see the FAQ for using custom code by @JDRoberts

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BloomSky & Weather Underground Devices & Integrations

Continuing the discussion from Bloomsky Weather Station: @Natec @brianjlambert @schapper05 @cdmobile @Turb02 @slagle Any chance anybody would be willing to help me work through this? I followed the instructions quoted above, but it’s not working all the way through. So, I’m kind of stuck. I now have a new (for me, second; the other one is for something else) station in my WU-PWS account. I have a camera listed under ‘Your Current Cameras’. However, the camera entry’s ‘source link’ field is blank, because I’m not sure what to do next. If I go in to edit the camera, at the point where I choose a station to associate it with, I only see my old, original station ID in there; the new one for the BloomSky is not in the ‘Associate with PWS’ drop-down list, even though it’s in my WU-PWS a…

Steps on how to add Still Images to Smarttiles.click Thanks @Belgarion!

jpeuter11 · February 5, 2016, 3:02pm

Applied earlier this morning. It does look like a pretty nifty device.

schapper05 · February 5, 2016, 3:09pm

Yeah I’m very excited about it, I applied for two more locations yesterday. I haven’t recieved my first one yet, but who knows right?!

Original 1st Post
Continuing the discussion from Current device deals & best prices:

This is a place to discuss Bloomsky Weather Station.

About a week ago @cdmobile mentioned and posted a link to Bloomsky’s Website and noted that we might be able to get one of these nifty devices for the mere price of shipping. Many have already noted that they were accepted and I thought that this could be the official thread for them.

https://community.smartthings.com/t/current-device-deals-best-prices/34950/389
https://community.smartthings.com/t/current-device-deals-best-prices/34950/390
https://community.smartthings.com/t/current-device-deals-best-prices/34950/391
https://community.smartthings.com/t/current-device-deals-best-prices/34950/393
https://community.smartthings.com/t/current-device-deals-best-prices/34950/396
https://community.smartthings.com/t/current-device-deals-best-prices/34950/397
https://community.smartthings.com/t/current-device-deals-best-prices/34950/404

visualize · February 5, 2016, 3:10pm

I bought one yesterday, already have a different brand weatherstation, but you can never have too many gadgets, right?

Adkhkr1 · February 5, 2016, 3:15pm

Ordered mine with the code…looking forward to integrating it.

chickwebb · February 5, 2016, 3:17pm

Got my approval letter yesterday, too.

nerfnerfnerf · February 5, 2016, 3:17pm

Ordered one as well. I look forward to setting it up.

Tomforti · February 5, 2016, 3:31pm

@schapper05 thanks for setting this thread up. I think I’m going to try and get one for my parents place and shore house too. Hope a device type can come out of this.

schapper05 · February 5, 2016, 3:33pm

No problem, I can’t always do it, but when I have a few minutes I know it bugs people to see the deals thread obliterated by off topic discussions.

I applied for 2 more for work locations. And am going to try to apply for my parents as well. We’ll see, but it would be cool to see literally what the weather is like at those places!

schapper05 · February 5, 2016, 3:37pm

Yeah These two posts below give me hope for a device type. I would think that if enough of us ST users get these it should come along pretty quickly from the community
https://community.smartthings.com/t/current-device-deals-best-prices/34950/389
https://community.smartthings.com/t/current-device-deals-best-prices/34950/393

And as was mentioned earlier Bloomsky itself was looking into creating a device type for it =D

Web Service or Cloud Devices? General Discussion

This is Yongfeng from BloomSky (http://www.bloomsky.com). Our company sells an out-door device that measures the temperature, UV index, luminance, raining and pressure. It uploads the data along with a picture of the surroundings taken by a mounted camera to our server every 5 minutes, through Wi-Fi. Our users use our smartphone app, which uses a bunch of APIs to poll the server to get those data. Our device doesn’t have any action or accept any commands, it just provides data. According to my understanding, I wonder whether it belongs to Cloud Devices or Web Service SmartApps? I don’t quite get the differences between them. If it should be Cloud Devices, I want to know where I should write my Service Manager and Device Handler in the developers console? Do they correspond to “My Devices”…

brianjlambert · February 5, 2016, 3:42pm

I can’t wait to get mine now that I was approved, and I hope Smartthings integrations comes fast, but they do have an IFTTT channel.

Someone that has one, what triggers does the IFTTT channel provide?

adeparker · February 5, 2016, 3:44pm

@brianjlambert, triggers are shown here

celblazer · February 5, 2016, 3:44pm

Just a heads up. I think I missed my initial acceptance email. Applied again and the second one was in my Spam folder.

So I’m in and can’t wait.

brianjlambert · February 5, 2016, 3:47pm

Thanks. I don’t know if many of those are entirely useful with Smartthings, but the rain trigger might be good to turn on/off lights.

Wish there was a light level trigger.

CAL7 · February 5, 2016, 3:50pm

I used the standard order page and the promo code (just now) to reduce the price to $19.99 (shipping). Offer was accepted, now waiting on shipping confirmation.

schapper05 · February 5, 2016, 3:51pm

I would recommend going through the proper channel of application, as they can probably rightfully charge you the difference… It seems like they are accepting everyone’s applications.

jotto · February 5, 2016, 4:04pm

Thanks for the heads-up!

Love that it creates time-lapse videos automatically, look forward to hopefully getting approved.

RLDreams · February 5, 2016, 4:08pm

Agreed, from the few things I have seen they seem to be willing to get these out there and work with us on integration. I assume that they are building their customer network to get more data points in the effort to eventually sell the data.
I wouldn’t want to risk pissing them off by giving out the code or using it without actually getting approved to be a host.The agreement gave a price of $269, not the " current sale price" of $229 ( without code)

jovanm · February 5, 2016, 4:25pm

what code? 20 characters

RLDreams · February 5, 2016, 4:25pm

The code they send you once you are approved to be a community host[quote=“jovanm, post:19, topic:38202, full:true”]

what code? 20 characters
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