Migrating to another API provider

[mwood77]

Great project, and I'd love to use it. Unfortunately I'm located outside of the USA.

I've done some snooping around and found an aggregation API that's also open source and free for non-commercial use. At a cursory glance, this looks like something that might be a decent alternative to migrate to and open this project up for use outside of the USA.

We'll still have the challenge of replicating maps and such though.

https://open-meteo.com/en/docs

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Absolutely willing to help out with this, should this be a viable integration.

[mwood77]

So far, this is proving to be totally doable.

Here is the Current Conditions screen after some fast and dirty hacking:

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There are some caveats though. mostly because I haven't investigated it yet:

• I'm not sure how to handle imperial vs metric units without explicitly telling it when to convert units; default is metric
• I won't be able to do radar, or at least I can't right now.
• Not all icons work (yet)
• related to Using OpenWeatherMap for countries outside the U.S. #16

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I'm hacking away at it over here: https://github.com/mwood77/ws4kp/pull/4

[netbymatt]

Thank you for the work on this! It's not the first time using a different source has been discussed.

From looking at the API you're using we'll loose radar and the text description of the forecast "Local Forecast" screens. Since I know there's a lot of nostalgia for this kind of weather report I'm pretty sure a certain set of users would not appreciate the loss.

Of course this is open source you're welcome make improvements as you see fit. But because of the nostalgia factor, I'd only consider a pull request on this repo if the option to switch sources was made available as one of the settings at the bottom of the page so the current experience can be preserved.

[mwood77]

Since I know there's a lot of nostalgia for this kind of weather report I'm pretty sure a certain set of users would not appreciate the loss.

That's why I'm also here, but I don't live in North America anymore. 😄

But because of the nostalgia factor, I'd only consider a pull request on this repo if the option to switch sources was made available as one of the settings at the bottom of the page so the current experience can be preserved.

I think that's totally fair, but I think it'll be too tightly coupled to either API to make that feasible without a herculean effort.

I'll continue over on my fork working to make some parts of it compatible with open-meteo, so there's an international capable version.

[netbymatt]

Thanks for your understanding! Good luck with the adaptation.

When you're at a spot where it's stable please put in a pull request here to add your project to readme.md.

[netbymatt]

Pull request with link to ws4kp-international has been merged.