[REL] WeatherPlugin

Stefan_L_01 said:
The probababillity is a trigger, indeed. I started to use this allready for darksky. Above 75% you should get rain, below 25% no rain. Between its a probabillity trigger. Random, with increasing probabillity towards 75%.
And without it, you would get rain much more often. The API has no rain gauge. It evaluates rain radar, cloud radar, something like this. Its not based on a real weather station if you ask me. There are not every 100m in real word weather stations with rain gauges for exact measurement. So the API counts "virtual" rain or calculates a virtual rain "rate", but it is saying not sure whether this actually really happening as rain on ground.
Furthermore there is a threshold for rainrate, if exeeding a threshold you get rain. I once witnessed a heavy wide shower in the rainforest on the radar, with >25mm/sec rain (pretty much) and the probabilltiy was only 40% - does not make sense sometimes what API reports.
If you say 20% triggered rain i might have to check something :) - but maybe threshold was exceeded
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Thanks for the detailled explanation !
Just for clarification, we had a 30% probability of rain which gave (sometimes) a 20% of rain on rF2. Following your explanation, everything seems to work as expected. :)
 
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:( but i have still free calls.... :-/
 
lagg said:
Yes. You are right.
I don't kno why we reached the limit.
In any case it would be iseful.
Thank you very much.
I'm going to take a look to OpenWeatherMap, because y took some keys in the past there
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1.5 months late. "forecast API calls were added in case clouds roll in/out is used, quering every 10 minutes which counts for additional 144 calls a day."
Is from the ReadMe for the RealWeather App.
480+144 = 624. Is that a possible thing? Though, I also use the 500 plan, and use the clouds in/out and have no issues with limits (usually. It sometimes happens seemingly at random!)
 
Would be nice to be able to use nearest airport weather data. Those are freely, public and unlimited access. Do track files contain a GPS location?
 
I uploaded V1.15 and changed openweathermap api to use their "onecall" api, which is more powerful and more exact.
Unfortunatly I have not found yet a owm rain radar which is "now" realtime to compare 1:1
You can also set the polltime for your api >= 3min
 
Hey guys. I succesfully set all that is needed for plugin to work, I see in the app that weather and track is read from my api (openweathermap), plugin is enabled in rf2 also. But what weather type I have to choose before start of the event, default or scripted??? Also how do I know that plugin actually works?
Thanks for the great plugin :)
 
Thanks for fast responses. Yeah I noticed at Lime Rock that Crew chief said that track temp is zero but in game it was sunny and at around 30 degrees. Thanks for fast responses guys. Really appreciate :)
 
Hey All

I have read this thread and can't figure out, how to make a weather API key on the New site they have maked:-)

Can anyone maybe help? Or are there other API key sites, i can use on the plugin.

- Kristian
 
I have been using Open Weathermap for a while.... but I am concerned something isn't triggering rain. I can see it looking at the realtime weather and rain is sometimes a 0.xx value but this still doesn't trigger rain to happen on the track.

Anyone else encountered this?
 
@Woodee we use Openweathermap in our servers without problems with the rain
Stupid question.
Have you checked that the program isn't locking the rain with the Rain limit or Rain mod? I don't know what the Rain exp is.
 
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