Weather Underground Reader Release Notes

Owned by Jonathan Schmale
Last updated: May 05, 2020 by Georg Hentsch

The WU API will be retired 12/31/2018. At that time this reader will no longer be useful.

https://apicommunity.wunderground.com/weatherapi/topics/end-of-service-for-the-weather-underground-api

This reader is used to access data from http://www.wunderground.com/
For pricing and/or to get a licence key to use it see: http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/pricing.html
- a free option is available 

This reader supports options from the Cumulus plan - specifically the

  • 10-day forecast summary
  • Hourly 1-day forecast

 

1.1.4

September 15, 2017

  • Improve agent status reporting and time synchronization.
  • Clear location search form after adding a location.
  • Improve tab orders.
  • improve handling of large UV values.

1.1.3

August 25, 2017

REQUIRES FLOW VERSION 9.8.2.2 OR GREATER TO BE INSTALLED FIRST!

  • Enable removing multiple locations at once.
  • Toggle the play/pause button and add a stop button.
  • Add a loading form to display on the window at start.
  • Use the latest weather icon.

1.1.1

January 3, 2017

  • Add feature to pull database connection info from a Flow URL.
  • Use the new generic weather icon.

1.0.9

November 15, 2016

  • Default to using png type image files for the icons.
  • Add option to convert default setup from gif to png.
    • You can use the reader to convert the setup to point to .png files. To do this simply press the [Reapply Default Setup] button on the Setup tab of the the instance you want to apply it to. If you are happy using the .gif mapping then you don't need to do anything.
  • Add ability to remove selected locations.

1.0.8

July 20, 2016

  • Switch to an enabled play/stop button instead of a red/green enabled image.

1.0.7

June 8, 2016

  • Improve the rfc822 date format parsing of the current observation times
  • Use Reader Utils version 1.0.8
  • Use .Net Framework 4.5

1.0.6

December 8, 2015

  • Don't show a popup alert message when translations fail to load - instead show message in textbox in UI and log.
  • Use ReaderUtils version 1.0.6
  • Use default Updater login for easy first time default setup

1.0.5

November 5, 2015

  • Improve handling of UV Index values with a decimal.
  • Report the number of downloaded location reports
  • Use the new Check-For-Updates URL.

1.0.4

September 10, 2015

  • Rebuild to better display names in Win8 - particularly the name displayed in the startup tab of the Task Manager.

1.0.3

July 24, 2015

  • Handle incorrect db settings better 
  • Don't remember the verbose log setting at restart
  • Prevent db writes when disabled
  • Keep the countdown clock going while running

1.0.2

April 6, 2015

  • Add support for switching pressure units from kPa to inHg based on the preference selected in Flow.
    • The Flow preference is added in Flow version 7.4.1.2

1.0.1

April 1, 2015

REQUIRES ST FLOW VERSION 7.4.1.1 TO BE INSTALLED FIRST!

Initial Version

  • Introduces support for weather source tracking