A personal station, when it feeds services like Weather Underground, also enables forecasting, so the « 2 » topics aren’t that separate.
As for feature requests, I’ve already made several, including two related to the topic I’m discussing:
one where I ask that MQTT fake devices have features (the « unknown » feature, for example) that can receive data of type text or date/time, and that for this feature it should not be necessary to define a high/low range…
for the second I also made a request that graphic-type desklets for data over 24 h not use averaged data (which skews everything) but use min/max or sum type data (e.g.: Jan 26 averaged data I have 6.75 mm of rain, actual data over the day I had 19 mm!)
So no, I’m not going to rewrite feature requests that I’ve already written; at best I’ll supplement them if further details are needed…
With what’s happening with the use of OpenWeather we find ourselves, for the free API, in a degraded use of the original solution (the forecasting aspect is almost nonexistent), so the personal station solution with a « Weather Underground » can compensate… (I wonder who suggested this solution to me with Node-RED when I wanted to connect my Bresser station to Gladys…?)
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