WXonline

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This driver provides weather information and forecasts retrieved from the Yahoo! Weather service.

N.B. The information provided by this driver must be used in compliance with Yahoo!'s Terms of Use.

HSYCO Configuration

Options

ID Default Values Description
gui true true enable support for the UI object and UISET actions
false disable UI support
pollinterval 10 n > 0 the data acquisition interval, in minutes
location <woeid> WOEID of the target location

The 'location' option is required. To obtain the WOEID of the desired location, go to the Yahoo! Weather home page and enter the location name in the search field. The WOEID will be at the end of the URL for the forecast page for that location. For example, if you search for Los Angeles, the forecast page for that city is "http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/california/los-angeles-2442047". The WOEID is 2442047.

Datapoints

ID Value R/W Description
connection online R connection established
offline R HSYCO can't connect to the panel