Weather Station Tile does not update

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Today I noticed that my Weather station tile is no more updating. (since early in the morning)
When I try to refresh manually, I see this error in the log:

2c321fe7-3a81-4e5c-9100-71d428799d64 12:49:02 PM: error java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke method toUpperCase() on null object @line 215 (poll)

2c321fe7-3a81-4e5c-9100-71d428799d64 12:49:02 PM: info WUSTATION: Executing ‘poll’, location: 0Home

I examined the code for the tile, and I see that it is complaining about null zipcode
However, I had never entered a zip code to the tile. It was working fine until today.
I am not able to enter zip code because I live outside US.
The tile (and weather underground) only supports US zip codes for search.

In any case I tried with a US zip code, and I can confirm that it works when the zip code is entered.
However, it does not work (anymore) without a zip code.
How can I solve this issue ?

why has it started ?

Btw, when I change my hub location to somewhere in US, it works without a zip code.
So I assume, previously Smartthings cloud was producing a way to search for my location even when zip code is not entered. But now it does not.

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I also tried with a London location. It fails.

So it fails for outside US, not just my location.

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They just put in an update for it yesterday to support personal weather stations. Maybe @ady624 can take a look.

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latitued and logitued normaly works, 3 decimal places works but i think it has to have the - in the west/west.
my area is 53.7,-2.7
38.25,-76.45

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where shall I enter lat/lon ?

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im using an old weather underground app i adapted and its on the setting page, in the post code box.
if its calling getTwcConditions(settings.postcode) the is post code or lat/long

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also
i have
def hublocation = getTwcLocation(settings.postcode)
log.info “$hublocation”
which give me precise where it is looking
1:50:11 PM: info [location:[adminDistrict:England, adminDistrictCode:null, city:Preston, country:United Kingdom, countryCode:GB, countyId:null, displayName:Penwortham, disputedArea:false, dmaCd:null, dstEnd:2019-10-27T01:00:00+0000, dstStart:2019-03-31T02:00:00+0100, ianaTimeZone:Europe/London, latitude:53.7xx, locId:null, locale:[locale1:Lancashire, locale2:Preston, locale3:Penwortham, locale4:null], locationCategory:null, longitude:-2.6xx, neighborhood:null, placeId:79af3b27fcc91cf97d7d9ed25396d8defd4676fa85674cedf5820886a7bffe43, pollenId:null, postalCode:PR5 5SH, postalKey:PR5 5:GB, pwsId:null, regionalSatellite:eur, tideId:null, type:postal, zoneId:UK009]]

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thanks. When I enter the lat/lon as you suggest; it updates.
Only in the location name, there is a “null” field.
It says for example “Kadikoy, null TR”
what’s that null ?

and I did not understand your last post.
what do you mean by

def hublocation = getTwcLocation(settings.postcode)
log.info “$hublocation”
which give me precise where it is looking

did you do that to get your lat/lon ? (I know it so I don’t need that)

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not sure about the null, if you look at my log example above there is a few 'null’s within the location info
in the code i have a line
def hublocation = getTwcLocation(settings.postcode) [settings.postcode = lat/long]
then a line
log.info “$hublocation” [ which give me all the location details as per the example]

1:50:11 PM: info [location:[adminDistrict:England, adminDistrictCode:null, city:Preston, country:United Kingdom, countryCode:GB, countyId:null, displayName:Penwortham, disputedArea:false, dmaCd:null, dstEnd:2019-10-27T01:00:00+0000, dstStart:2019-03-31T02:00:00+0100, ianaTimeZone:Europe/London, latitude:53.7xx, locId:null, locale:[locale1:Lancashire, locale2:Preston, locale3:Penwortham, locale4:null], locationCategory:null, longitude:-2.6xx, neighborhood:null, placeId:79af3b27fcc91cf97d7d9ed25396d8defd4676fa85674cedf5820886a7bffe43, pollenId:null, postalCode:PR5 5SH, postalKey:PR5 5:GB, pwsId:null, regionalSatellite:eur, tideId:null, type:postal, zoneId:UK009]]

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ok. so you use a custom tile DTH ?
why ? does it have any advantage over the default ST tile ?

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the weatherundreground did actions, ie if raining switch this on, i think the author has updated it himself

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@RBoy
is it an update to the tile or the updater app ?
shall we wait for the update to be distributed ?

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It’s an update to the stock ST Weather Station DTH. It will take effect once ST pushes the changes into production.

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What format of longitude/latitude you use instead of zip code? Hot to find it if on maps either in degrees or decimal. Non of classic formats seem to work. Thanks

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use google maps, click a point and it should give you the Lat and Long. you can then type it back into google maps as a decial to refine/check it.
format should be LL.lll, -LL.lll … note the comma and the minus

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Got it! Thanks Mark. In the google maps there is a space in between LA/LO if you just copy, while in the app setting one has use values without space, just comma in between. Thanks

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Is there a means to point the weather DTH to MY specific Weatherstation?

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If you’re in the US you can specify your weather station ID in the weather device settings.