DarkSky end of life next january - How to replace

Chuck xtension4osx at mac.com
Tue Sep 20 13:05:44 EDT 2022


Not being available in France is another reason to have forecast data from Tempest Weather. It is world wide.

Chuck

> On Sep 20, 2022, at 9:40 AM, Philippe SCHMUCK <philippe.schmuck at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately WeatherMan is not an option in France; I’ve tried several times to get Dean from Afterten to update the data recognition when their format changed sligthly coming from our French access points, but he did not respond. Not sur if he really support the software anymore.
> 
> I too migrated to Darksky when James did provide an interface to it and I too wonder to what I should move next year.
> 
> Philippe
> 
>> Le 20 sept. 2022 à 17:57, Chuck <xtension4osx at mac.com> a écrit :
>> 
>> I have used WeatherMan for at least a decade. It works well but has a nasty habit of stalling and can be a memory hog. My fix is that I run a script that kills the app every day and that has solved the problems I used to have with it.
>> 
>> What would be nice is that if someone, not me, could figure out the forecast off the Tempest Weather station as I have one of those. It is very reliable and I have noticed it changes the forecast often if necessary so it is very up to date. WeatherMan only updates every hour as the data comes from the NWS.
>> 
>> Like you, I use the forecast to adjust the temperature of the house dependent on what the temperature will be tomorrow so that is very comport to my system.
>> 
>> Chuck
>> 
>>> On Sep 20, 2022, at 8:32 AM, Michel Angelo <michel_angelo at me.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello to all of you. I just read on Tidbits that the darkSky weather app which was purchased by Apple will now be EOLed. 
>>> 
>>> This may cause an issue to me (and possibly to others)
>>> 
>>> With the help of knowledgeable members of this list, DarkSky is used in my home heating control to provide, at around midnight local, the max temperature forecast for the day. It uses it to determine if and to which extent heating will be needed in the early morning. 
>>> 
>>> Any hits as to replacement ?
>>> 
>>> TIA
>>> 
>>>>>> Michel Angelo
>>> <michel_angelo at me.com>
>>> 
>>> 
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