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Can the Yahoo! weather binding be configurable for Celsius or Fahrenheit? [message #1703430]

Fri, 31 July 2015 13:41

Rob Nielsen

Messages: 7
Registered: July 2015

Junior Member

The Yahoo! weather RSS feed defaults to Fahrenheit, but the Smart Home Yahoo! weather binding uses Celsius. And it returns whole numbers (0, 1, 2, 3) for both Celsius and Fahrenheit.

This introduces inaccurate results if the end user wants Fahrenheit instead of Celsius since every 1 degree Celsius is equivalent to 1.8 degree F. For example, the sequence in Celsius:

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

results in:

32, 33.8, 35.6, 37.4, 39.2,  41

Fahrenheit.

Conversely, if the binding defaulted to Fahrenheit, the sequence in Fahrenheit:

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

results in:

-17.8, -17.2, -16.7,  -16.1, -15.6 -15

Celsius.

Another option would be for the binding to report in Fahrenheit and convert to Celsius.

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Re: Can the Yahoo! weather binding be configurable for Celsius or Fahrenheit? [message #1703441 is a reply to message #1703430]

Fri, 31 July 2015 15:05

Kai Kreuzer

Messages: 673
Registered: December 2011

Senior Member

See also https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/1068864/.
The problem is currently the static thing definition; we would either need to define 2 channels or make it dynamic. With the introduction of units to Number items, there will be new ways of addressing this, that's why I would like to wait until we have that feature.

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