Today's weather on Telegram with Openweather

Tutorials
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Hello,

Here is a scene that allows you to receive the weather every morning via a Telegram message.

First, you need an OpenWeather 3 API key (note, old keys that worked for version 2 are not valid for this tutorial).
If you don’t have one, go here: Members

:warning: The plan allows 1000 calls per day (more than enough). Beyond that, you will be charged €0.14 for each additional 100 calls.

Now, you can create a scene with:

  • the trigger of your choice. I chose Scheduled Trigger (every day at 7:30 AM)

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  • an action Make an HTTP request
    The URL will be

https://api.openweathermap.org/data/3.0/onecall?lat=\u003clatitude\u003e\u0026lon=\u003clongitude\u003e\u0026exclude=minutely,hourly,current,alert\u0026lang=fr\u0026units=metric\u0026appid=\u003capi_key\u003e

For Paris, for example, this gives

https://api.openweathermap.org/data/3.0/onecall?lat=48.8588897\u0026lon=2.320041\u0026exclude=minutely,hourly,current,alert\u0026lang=fr\u0026units=metric\u0026appid=XXXXXXXXX

You can find the GPS coordinates of an address easily with this site: https://www.coordonnees-gps.fr/
Don’t forget to test the call with the Try button

:information_source: Information

  • the exclude parameter allows you to get in the response only the daily weather
  • the metrics parameter allows you to get the response with Celsius degrees
  • the lang parameter returns descriptions in French

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  • finally, an action Send a message. Feel free to customize the message as you wish using the variables from the previous HTTP response. For me, this yields:
Bonjour Cyril, aujourd'hui, le temps est {{ 1. 1. data.daily.[0].weather.[0].description }} et il fera entre {{ 1. 1. data.daily.[0].temp.min }} °C et {{ 1. 1. data.daily.[0].temp.max }} °C

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Hi @cicoub13, did you need to enter your credit card to get access to the Onecall API?

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Yes :money_mouth_face:

4

Ok, if you use the Weather API call you don’t need to enter your credit card, that’s what we do in Gladys :slight_smile:

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Indeed, you can use version 2.5 of the API which is free (no credit card) and offers the same functionality.

http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=43.267093\u0026lon=-0.421642\u0026lang=fr\u0026units=metric\u0026cnt=1\u0026appid=XXX

Should I update the tutorial with both options or only this one? But wasn’t there some talk that you could no longer get a key for this version?

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No, actually it’s the OneCall API that’s no longer available, the rest is fine. I created a token as recently as last week :slight_smile:

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Hello @cicoub13

On my end it doesn’t work with the Weather API key. I don’t see any other feedback on the subject to know if other users have succeeded or not.

Here is the error message:

{
  "cod": 401,
  "message": "Invalid API key. Please see https://openweathermap.org/faq#error401 for more info."
}
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Resolved but code to modify in your message :

https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=43.267093\u0026lon=-0.421642\u0026lang=fr\u0026units=metric\u0026cnt=1\u0026appid=XXX

:wink:

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However, it gives me surprising temperatures:

Hello Jérôme, today the weather is partly cloudy, it will be between 281.92°C and 283.01 and the air quality is 38

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I’ve got this, it seems OK. Are you sure you have the units in metric?

{"coord":{"lon":-0.4216,"lat":43.2671},"weather":[{"id":800,"main":"Clear","description":"ciel dégagé","icon":"01n"}],"base":"stations","main":{"temp":9.88,"feels_like":9,"temp_min":9.32,"temp_max":10.18,"pressure":1007,"humidity":92},"visibility":10000,"wind":{"speed":2.06,"deg":140},"clouds":{"all":0},"dt":1698700059,"sys":{"type":1,"id":6466,"country":"FR","sunrise":1698647606,"sunset":1698685027},"timezone":3600,"id":2980166,"name":"Saint-Faust","cod":200}
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Yes
The city is fine
It’s only the degrees that are inconsistent. I’ll see tomorrow during the automatic message if I get the same thing.

12

Resolved, I had added an « s »

13

Thanks for the tip, very handy, it’s just a pity that on a speaker the temperatures are in English only

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Are you talking about the TTS via Sonos?

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Yes, that’s it. I do have the description in French with the « &lang=fr » option, but the numbers themselves are read in English and it’s like « the temperature will be between one two dot one nine and one two dot three four »

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Aha, I think it’s the TTS API that’s doing that. We should test if it’s the same with all their voices

It’s AI-based TTS so it might hallucinate a bit :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

For info the API I use is:

I had some feedback about the voice so I suggested changing it but haven’t had any reply since ^^

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I don’t agree with you, you’ve received feedback:

https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/rex-la-voix-de

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@spenceur We misunderstood each other, since your last message said « I’ll confirm with madame ^^ » I was waiting for madame’s confirmation before changing :stuck_out_tongue: (Since your first message seemed to suggest it was rather madame who was complaining about the voice!)

If it’s okay with Grace, I’ll

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Isn’t there a language parameter to pass that would allow changing this? (it may already be sent and not working)

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In my case the language parameter is sent and works for the description. I’ll get « bruine légère », in French then, but the numbers are in English and pronounced digit by digit :man_shrugging:
I looked into it a bit but not much more than that either.