Description
See domoticz/domoticz#5336 (comment) for this problem affecting another project as well. Basically, only the following URL works for newly-created accounts:
https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=40&lon=-115&appid=$appid
this URL differs from the URL in the tutorial in that onecall
is replaced with weather
. I think the URL above should work for old and new accounts alike.
But this may break again some day as well. If OpenWeatherMap fully shuts down their 2.5 API, as the onecall
API requires users to follow this process (scroll to bottom of page, reply by Uwe Jacobs), which requires a credit card and a billing subscription even though you're signing up for the "free" plan. If this tutorial eventually has to go down that path (well, an alternative should be found in that case), then users should be instructed to set their billing limit to 1000 calls so that their credit card won't get charged for excess calls.
For now, swapping out onecall
for weather
in the URL should work, but you may want to try this on an old OpenWeatherMap account (over a year old) and a newly-created account just in case! The result of the API call is the following, so if the tutorial uses other keys not present here, the actual tutorial contents may need modification as well:
{ "coord": { "lon": -115, "lat": 40 }, "weather": [ { "id": 800, "main": "Clear", "description": "clear sky", "icon": "01d" } ], "base": "stations", "main": { "temp": 296.68, "feels_like": 295.48, "temp_min": 296.68, "temp_max": 296.68, "pressure": 1014, "humidity": 15, "sea_level": 1014, "grnd_level": 817 }, "visibility": 10000, "wind": { "speed": 4.37, "deg": 239, "gust": 5.02 }, "clouds": { "all": 6 }, "dt": 1697491946, "sys": { "country": "US", "sunrise": 1697464268, "sunset": 1697504381 }, "timezone": -25200, "id": 5707899, "name": "Rock House", "cod": 200 }