Good job but wish it was a hidden device in the phone app.
@SGrayban, We think alike!
I will investigate a âhidden deviceâ option, but I suspect that ActionTiles⢠will not see the SmartWeather Station Tile device if it is hidden.
For the time being, just move the new device in another SMartThings mobile client room, perhaps labeled âMiscâ or âHiddenâ so it will not show up in the room where you have the other devices.
Yea!!
Ed from Ambient support reached out to me about a week ago to ask if they could link to my application. This is great if others can get some benefits from their devices!
Thanks for sharing!
Just stopping back to say thanks for v3 Installed it this weekend and itâs working well with my WS-1550-IP setup and 8 external sensors. You saved me some work getting the data out to Influx/Grafana and MQTT.
Thanks!
your github account, kurtsanders, is missing!!!
Dear @Moonshine,
Wow, that is some great graphs of your various temp sensors! Very impressive!
I am working on a major upgrade to âAmbient Weather Stationâ (V4) that I have in βeta right now. The new release has some nice UI and functionality improvements over the ole V3 release.
As soon as I get a few more test hours on it, I will post it for general release, and you can upgrade to be on the latest.
I am contacting GitHub right now. Not sure what this means~
Your github account has been flagged.
Because of that, your profile is hidden from the public. If you believe this is a mistake, contact support to have your account status reviewed.
looks like it has been resolvedâŚ
Ambient Weather Station Version: V4.0.0 (βeta) Now Available for Early Adopters Testing (New Feature Release)
This all new βeta release can be installed & tested without disrupting your existing V3 install. You will need to install âAmbient Weather Stationâ SmartApp and 3 DTHâs from the STAmbientWeather βeta branch (See instructions below).
- Ambient Weather Station is an extensive change and adds many new features and options (See below). âAmbient Weather Stationâ is the new name and supporting DTHâs have also been renamed to allow for integration with other ST developers, along with using standard naming conventions of weather data fields, and future ability to incorporate async http performance improvements.
ETA of βeta code into Master Branch: Feb 10, 2019
New SmartApp and DTH Names
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The old SmartApp name of âAmbient Weather Station Service Manager V3â has been changed to simply âAmbient Weather Stationâ for compatibility with ST naming standards which do not provide support for Version Numbers like âV3â in the title.
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Old âAmbient Weather Station Service Manager V3â Device Handlers (DTH) with version number suffixes in the DTH file names have been removed.
ST GitHub Settings for βeta
Name | Value |
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Owner | kurtsanders |
Name: | STAmbientWeather |
Branch | beta |
Required Files MUST be installed and published to your SmartThings IDE Repositories (Use âUpdate from Repoâ)
IDE Repository | Filename | Status |
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My SmartApps | kurtsanders : Ambient Weather Station | NEW |
My Device Handler | kurtsanders : SmartWeather Tile Station | Updated |
My Device Handler | kurtsanders : Ambient Weather Station | NEW |
My Device Handler | kurtsanders : Ambient Weather Station Remote Sensor | NEW |
Requirements:
- Although a âAmbient Weather Station Service Manager V3â installation can continue to operate along side a new âAmbient Weather Stationâ install, it is highly recommended after the βeta testing, that the previous versions/files in your ST IDE My SmartApps and My Device Handlers be removed. Support, going forward, will be minimal in previous releases as âAmbient Weather Stationâ is now the officially supported distribution and will include new features/bug fixes moving forward.
- The âAmbient Weather Stationâ files, from the table above, are the ONLY files you will need to install. They are identified from namespace âkurtsandersâ in your SmartThings IDE (My SmartApps and My Device Handlersâ).
- Ambient Weather Station Service Manager V3 cannot be migrated/updated to âAmbient Weather Stationâ due to the new architecture and extensive re-coding to accomodate multiple instances of Ambient Weather Station nodes, new sensor types, SMS alerts, etc. A fresh/clean install of âAmbient Weather Stationâ is the only way to migrate to this release.
- Please remember to add your Ambient API key to the Ambient Weather Station settings.
Install Instructions
Updates/Features
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Added extensive re-coding to detect and accomodate users who have more than one Ambient Weather Station nodes.
- Allows user to select ONE of their Ambient weather stations to install & configure.
- Allows multiple instances of the App to be installed from the Marketplace to add additional weather station nodes.
- Allows the user to name each âAmbient Weather Stationâ instance with a unique name, where the default provided (and recommended) is the Ambient Weather Station name as defined from Ambient.net.
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Added option in preferences to send Weather SMS Text Alerts for user defined values :
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Low Temperature
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High Temperature
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Rain Detectedš
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Severe Weather
- šAlerts are hidden if the installed weather station does not provide a value.
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The Weather SMS Alerts are sent per user preferences for once every {1,2,4,6,12,24} hours.
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Now sending imperial|metric explicit units of measure as defined from SmartThings Location Temperature Scale setting. Default UNIT is imperial, metric if userâs âTemperature Scaleâ is âCâ :
- Temperature (ÂşF|ÂşC)
- Wind (MPH|KPH)
- Humidity (%)
- Barometric Pressure (inHg|mmHg)
- Rain (in|cm)
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Added Ambient Server DateTime to weather device tiles, which will show the date/time of the Ambient.net server that was responding.
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Added a Battery attribute status icon for those select Ambient Weather Station models that return their âGood/Badâ battery condition. Otherwise a battery icon showing N/A is displayed.
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Added additional logic to handle the various Ambient Weather Station models with limited or missing weather attributes from the full functionality outside network weather models.
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Lowercase dewPoint and FeelsLike internal variables to be consistent with other SmartThings weather applications.
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Removed all dynamic background colors for standard & value tiles due to color display inconsistencies between Android and Apple devices.
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Added detection of soil temp/humidity sensors as remote sensors.
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Added detection of pool temp sensor as a remote sensor w/o humidity values.
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Sends missing inside or outside temp/humidity values for the ST device with the suffix âConsoleâ from the remote sensor #1âs temp/humidity values, should they exist.
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Provides an â(N Alerts)â prefix to the main weather device secondary display message when severe weather is detected.
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Truncates extended severe weather details to a total of 300 characters to be readable in mobile devices.
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Determines latitude and longitude coordinates from zipCode preference for displaying TWC severe weather alerts.
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Added new preference option to shorten or eliminate the base prefix name used for creating the ST weather devices
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Added âRefresh Allâ action function to both âTile Last RefreshedâŚâ and âRefresh CycleâŚâ tiles. When pressed, this will cause all sensor devices to be refreshed and the refresh cycle timer to be reset to avoid excessive HTTP requests error.
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Changed logic to accomodate up to 99 remote sensors from API.
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Changed w/m² to lux conversion to w/m² * 126.7 = lux to match Ambient 2902 console conversion. FootCandles (FC) conversion is w/m² * 126.7 * 0.0929. Formatted light values with a comma for device display.
Weather Station Tile and Details View
Multiple Ambient WeatherÂŽ Station Instances of Independent Operating Nodes
Allows for multiple Ambient WeatherÂŽ system models or geolocation instances
Screenshots of Device Attributes
Ambient WeatherÂŽ Station with multiple remote sensors
Weather Event SMS Alerts
Select the following events to send Weather SMS Text Alerts for user defined values:
- Outside Low Temperatureš
- Outside High Temperatureš
- Rain Detectedš
- Severe Weather (TWCÂŽ Alerts for Zipcode)
šAlerts are hidden if the installed weather station does not provide a value.
Weather SMS Alerts are sent per user preferences for once every {1,2,4,6,12,24} hours.
The weather tile is missing for actiontiles now.
never mind⌠had to refresh actiontile panel builder
So I still donât get any readings for the Power and Energy tiles.
Code in the ability to change the device icon in the smartthings app⌠the blank icon is blah !!
Dear @SGrayban,
Good suggestion. I have added the ability to allow one to change each weather devicesâ displayed icon in the gear section of each device. Please Update all three DTHâs from the beta branch using âUpdate from Repoâ in âMy Device Handlersâ
As far as power/energy values, are you saying that you do not see Power and/or Energy options as shown below. They are ONLY present in the named weather device sensor (usually the Console) that has a windspeed measurement?
Or you see them in ActionTilesâ˘, but you are not getting a value, like below (because there might not be any wind? I might need to check this as you can see I have motion from the wind sensor, but no value, perhaps the value is less than 1?
The latter. There isnât any value shown for any speed.
Dear @SGrayban,
Thanks for finding this bug in missing values for power and energy. I have made a code update in the beta branch of the repo and you can âUpdate from Repoâ the Ambient Weather Station SmartApp in My SmartApps and either manually refresh the tile or wait for next scheduled refresh. ActionTiles⢠will pick up the windspeed as it did for mine at 1mph, assuming you have some Windspeed to report.
Power and Energy attributes are defined as numbers in ST but it appears that ActionTiles⢠formats them as Integers. So a value of 1.3 is displayed as 1. At least we can see the value now using power and/or energy tiles until ActionTiles⢠allows custom attributes like windSpeedmph.
Working nowâŚ
So power is current wind speed and energy is gust ?
and below 1 MPH