Weather

**New with Weather 3.0:**

With the 3.0 update, a couple of features have been officially depreciated, images, and the Text Forecast - Peroids are no longer functional. These have been marked Legacy in the driver, to prevent old files from corrupting. All current installs will slowly be moving over to the new driver code via the cloud hosted module mentioned below, and new installs will have the updated version by default. There should be no interuption in current installations, other then UI's using the now legacy variables will no longer get data for those fields, so system UI's may need to be updated.

Another important note with the 3.0 version, is that PWS weather data is no longer supported. All variables have been removed, and will no longer function as the rollout of the 3.0 driver code begins.

Note on Weather Driver 2.0 and greater:

The newer versions of the Weather Driver execute a cloud hosted code module. The cloud is checked regularly for updated driver code and, when a newer version is found, the driver will switch to the new version. This should dramatically reduce the need to update the driver to accommodate problems with, or changes, in the API.

This driver provides weather data using an internet connection.

Location Setting

The driver supports several ways to specify the location configuration option. For cities in the US, the recommended format is zip code.

Examples:
Location: 55379

Location: SW16 5:GB(international postal codes must include country code separated by a colon. Currently, only GB, FR, DE, and IT are supported)

Location: Shakopee, MN

Location: Paris, FR

Location: 45.3,93.2

Unit Type Setting

This configuration options sets the default units to display (Standard, Metric, Metric SI, and Hybrid UK). The scale can be changed at any time using the driver function 'Set Unit Type'. For metric data there is one additional option: "Pressure in Millimeters of Mercury" to show pressure in mmHg

Long Name Imperial (English) Metric Metric SI Hybrid UK

Temperature f (fahrenheit) c (celsius) c (celsius) c (celsius)

Pressure hg (inches of mercury) mb (millibars) mb (millibars) mb (millibars)

Precipitation in (inches) - rain/snow mm (rain), mm (rain), mm (rain),

cm (snow) cm (snow) cm (snow)

Distance mi (miles) km (kilometer) m (meter) mi (miles)

Visibility mi (miles) km (kilometer) km (kilometer) km (kilometer)

Wind Speed mh (miles/hour) km (km/hour) m/s (meters/second) mph (miles/hour)

Localization Settings

The original Weather Driver returned data that would need to be localized as integers defaulted to their English equivalents. These variables were for the days of the week, and compass directions. Putting these variables on in a text field allowed you to change the integer list (in the button properties) to the values used in a particular language. The new driver allows those values to be entered into the configuration so that they will be used every time the variable is; you no longer have to change the list every time the variable is used. You can also use the Export Config option to save an Config setup and import it into another file on a different job

The driver can also return the weather data localized for over 70 countries/languages. There is a Language entry in the configuration that requires a language key available at the end of this document. This was not a feature of the original RTI Weather Driver so the data, when used to display condition text, is returned in separate variables called Localized Condition Text, or ‘(real weather)’. The [Text Forecast] Condition Text has always been more verbose so that has always been returned as text data which will now be in the language specified in the Config.

.Condition Graphic Variables

The condition graphic is represented as an integer that indexes into the condition graphic image list. The following table describes the indexes.

0 - Chance of Flurries

1 - Chance of Rain

2 - Chance of Sleet

3 - Chance of Snow

4 - Chance of Thunderstorms

5 - Clear

6 - Cloudy

7 - Flurries

8 - Fog

9 - Hazy

10 - Mostly Cloudy

11 - Mostly Sunny

12 - Partly Cloudy

13 - Partly Sunny

14 - Rain

15 - Sleet

16 - Snow

17 - Sunny

18 - Thunderstorms

19 - Unknown

20 - Night Chance of Flurries

21 - Night Chance of Rain

22 - Night Chance of Sleet

23 - Night Chance of Snow

24 - Night Chance of Thunderstorms

25 - Night Clear

26 - Night Cloudy

27 - Night Flurries

28 - Night Fog

29 - Night Hazy

30 - Night Mostly Cloudy

31 - Night Mostly Sunny

32 - Night Partly Cloudy

33 - Night Partly Sunny

34 - Night Rain

35 - Night Sleet

36 - Night Snow

37 - Night Sunny

38 - Night Thunderstorms

39 - Night Unknown

Language Codes

ar-AE Arabic - (United Arab Emirates)

az-AZ Azerbaijani - (Azerbaijan)

bg-BG Bulgarian - (Bulgaria)

bn-BD Bengali, Bangla - (Bangladesh)

bn-IN Bengali, Bangla - (India)

bs-BA Bosnian - (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

ca-ES Catalan - (Spain)

cs-CZ Czech - (Czechia)

da-DK Danish - (Denmark)

de-DE German - (Germany)

el-GR Greek (modern) - (Greece)

en-GB English (Great Britain)

en-IN English - (India)

en-US English - (United States of America)

es-AR Spanish - (Argentina)

es-ES Spanish - (Spain)

es-LA Spanish - (Latin America)

es-MX Spanish - (Mexico)

es-UN Spanish - (International)

es-US Spanish - (United States of America)

et-EE Estonian - (Estonia)

fa-IR Persian (Farsi) - (Iran)

fi-FI Finnish - (Finland)

fr-CA French - (Canada)

fr-FR French - (France)

gu-IN Gujarati - (India)

he-IL Hebrew (modern) - (Israel)

hi-IN Hindi - (India)

hr-HR Croatian - (Croatia)

hu-HU Hungarian - (Hungary)

in-ID Indonesian - (Indonesia)

is-IS Icelandic - (Iceland)

it-IT Italian - (Italy)

iw-IL Hebrew - (Israel)

ja-JP Japanese - (Japan)

jv-ID Javanese - (Indonesia)

ka-GE Georgian - (Georgia)

kk-KZ Kazakh - (Kazakhstan)

kn-IN Kannada - (India)

ko-KR Korean - (South Korea)

lt-LT Lithuanian - (Lithuania)

lv-LV Latvian - (Latvia)

mk-MK Macedonian - (Macedonia)

mn-MN Mongolian - (Mongolia)

ms-MY Malay - (Malaysia)

nl-NL Dutch - (Netherlands)

no-NO Norwegian - (Norway)

pl-PL Polish - (Poland)

pt-BR Portuguese - (Brazil)

pt-PT Portuguese - (Portugal)

ro-RO Romanian - (Romania)

ru-RU Russian - (Russia)

si-LK Sinhalese, Sinhala - (Sri Lanka)

sk-SK Slovak - (Slovakia)

sl-SI Slovenian - (Slovenia)

sq-AL Albanian - (Albania)

sr-BA Serbian - (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

sr-ME Serbian - (Montenegro)

sr-RS Serbian - (Serbia)

sv-SE Swedish - (Sweden)

sw-KE Swahili - (Kenya)

ta-IN Tamil - (India)

ta-LK Tamil - (Sri Lanka)

te-IN Telugu - (India)

tg-TJ Tajik - (Tajikistan)

th-TH Thai - (Thailand)

tk-TM Turkmen - (Turkmenistan)

tl-PH Tagalog - (Philippines)

tr-TR Turkish - (Turkey)

uk-UA Ukrainian - (Ukraine)

ur-PK Urdu - (Pakistan)

uz-UZ Uzbek - (Uzbekistan)

vi-VN Vietnamese - (Viet Nam)

zh-CN Chinese - (China)

zh-HK Chinese - (Hong Kong)

zh-TW Chinese - (Taiwan)