Cynical Weather  

Developer: Perry the Cynic     Like this plugin? Show your appreciation!
Category: Weather and Environmental Sensors
Assistance: Get help!    Check the online documentation
Plugin ID: org.cynic.indigo.weather
Latest release: v3.5.3 released on Jan. 15, 2023
Requires: Indigo v2022.1.0 or higher
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This plugin provides weather- and environment-related functions. It does not require any hardware to operate, relying instead on web services and good old trigonometry. The idea is to help you manage your house by knowing more about its external environment. In particular, Cynical Weather provides

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Released on: Jan. 15, 2023
Requires: Indigo v2022.1.0+
Changes in this release

I've regenerated the embedded pyOpenSSL in the hope that perhaps that'll clear up the issues some users have with it.

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Released on: Jan. 14, 2023
Requires: Indigo v2022.1.0+
Changes in this release

Add (back) some openssl files that apparently are needed on some systems.

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Released on: Dec. 24, 2022
Requires: Indigo v2022.1.0+
Changes in this release

Weather alerts now work right.

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Released on: Dec. 20, 2022
Requires: Indigo v2022.1.0+
Changes in this release

Dark Sky is about to disappear for good, so this is the first version of Cynical Weather using the Visual Crossing weather service. It works similar, and the deal is the same, but names and details have changed. If you have used a previous version, you must delete and recreate your Cynical Weather devices. Sorry.

Requirements

To get weather reports and forecasts, you need to get a free Visual Crossing access key as described in the documentation.

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Released on: July 8, 2022
Requires: Indigo v2022.1.0+
Changes in this release

One less Python 3 related bug.

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Released on: June 1, 2022
Requires: Indigo v2022.1.0+
Changes in this release

Python 3 based for the future! Otherwise unchanged.

Requirements

2022-06-01

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Released on: Nov. 15, 2021
Requires: Indigo v6.0.0 thru v2022.2
Changes in this release

Upgraded the TLS (encryption) version. It seems Dark Sky doesn't like the old one anymore.

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Released on: June 7, 2018
Requires: Indigo v6.0.0 thru v2022.2
Changes in this release

Dark Sky (aka forecast.io) changed their server infrastructure, which broke HTTP compression. Version 1.2.1 turns off compression to resolve this issue for now, until (if?) we can figure out what happened.

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Released on: Dec. 22, 2016
Requires: Indigo v6.0.0 thru v2022.2
Changes in this release

This is the first release to be in the Plugin Store.