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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>==Visual Crossing==<br />
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Available from Domoticz Stable 2023.2<br />
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Visual Crossing (https://www.visualcrossing.com/) is a weather forecast service where up to 1000 requests per day are for free.<br />
The service delivers data for each individual geo-location using an URL request.<br />
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https://weather.visualcrossing.com/VisualCrossingWebServices/rest/services/timeline/&#x22;&#x20;Location&#x20;&#x22;?key=&#x22;&#x20;APIKey&#x20;&#x20;&#x22;&unitGroup=metric&include=current<br />
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==Integration in Domoticz==<br />
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The weather forecast data can be shown in Domoticz using virtual devices like:<br />
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*Temperature<br />
*Humidity<br />
*Windspeed<br />
*Wind-direction / bearing<br />
*Rain<br />
*Prediction<br />
*Air-pressure<br />
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Refer to [[Virtual weather devices#Scraping only temperature]] for instructions on how to split out the combined THB (Temperature + Humidity + Baro) device into three separate virtual devices. The instructions are exactly the same as for the former Weather Underground solution and Darksky/forecast.io.<br />
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==Installation==<br />
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===Get a free Visual Crossing API key===<br />
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*Go to <nowiki>https://www.visualcrossing.com/</nowiki> and create an account<br />
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===Add Visual Crossing hardware in domoticz===<br />
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*From the hardware setup, add the Visual Crossing (Weather Lookup) hardware<br />
*Enter the above registrated API key<br />
*For location you can use latitude/longitude coordinates like 52.520007, 13.404954<br />
*or you could use a location name like 'Naarden', if this is not working use the coordinate method<br />
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After a few minutes you will get new devices in the devices tab, and you can add them to the system<br />
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(Make sure you have "Accept new Hardware Devices" ticked or "Allow for 5 minutes" active in the settings page when you setup the hardware item or no device will be added)<br />
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===Replace Darksky by Visual Crossing and keep current weather devices===<br />
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*Go to the hardware tab<br />
*Click on your DarkSky hardware<br />
*Replace API key<br />
*Change type to Visual Crossing (Weather Lookup)<br />
*Click "update" button<br />
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[[Category:Weather]]</div>Walter vl