Show HN: Weather API for non-commercial use • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Weather API for non-commercial use

#151

Post by meteo-jeff » Wed, Sep 15, 2021, 12:05 PM UTC

alin23 wrote: post #146

This looks like the API I was looking for to compute the best screen brightness in the absence of a light sensor in Lunar [0] I would probably do a request per day for each user of this feature, which would amount to about 300-400 requests/day. Would that fit in the non-commercial use tier? I would be happy to start paying like $5/month if I'll find a way to improve the brightness calculation logic with your API. If…

Nice app. Even open source :)

Regular "shortwave_radiation" should fit your needs. This is basically "direct_radiation + diffuse_radiation".

I am not entirely sure, if this effects your users that much, because many will work indoors and only a fraction of sunlight will get in.

You can contact me directly via mail for a non-commercial use waver.

Re: Show HN: Weather API for non-commercial use

#152

Post by meteo-jeff » Wed, Sep 15, 2021, 12:08 PM UTC

darekkay wrote: post #134

Thank you, this project looks really great. I was taken aback to see how many free or freemium weather APIs have been closed or made paid-only over the years (mainly after being bought up by huge companies). For my open-source dashboard project [1], I've chosen one of the few remaining APIs: OpenWeatherMap. It offers a generous free tier, but the results are not as accurate (at least for Germany). I'll definitely con…

Great thanks! Let me know if you are missing something to integrate it.

My goal is to keep Open-Meteo free for non-commercial use and not start introducing API keys with different tiers of payments! The uptake in the recent days is great and motivates me to keep working on it!

Re: Show HN: Weather API for non-commercial use

#153

Post by alin23 » Wed, Sep 15, 2021, 1:58 PM UTC

meteo-jeff wrote: post #151

alin23 wrote: post #146

This looks like the API I was looking for to compute the best screen brightness in the absence of a light sensor in Lunar [0] I would probably do a request per day for each user of this feature, which would amount to about 300-400 requests/day. Would that fit in the non-commercial use tier? I would be happy to start paying like $5/month if I'll find a way to improve the brightness calculation logic with your API. If…

Nice app. Even open source :) Regular "shortwave_radiation" should fit your needs. This is basically "direct_radiation + diffuse_radiation". I am not entirely sure, if this effects your users that much, because many will work indoors and only a fraction of sunlight will get in. You can contact me directly via mail for a non-commercial use waver.

Thanks for the insight! I would have probably just chosen direct_radiation not knowing better.

Most users of this "brightness by sun position" feature work in rooms with lots of natural light so they complain about their screens being too bright in cloudy days. I think some improvements will be noticed.

I'll contact you through the email on the Contact Us [0] page when I have something working properly, thanks for this!

Re: Show HN: Weather API for non-commercial use

#154

Post by damienpirsy » Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 1:16 PM UTC

Leftium wrote: post #142

severak_cz wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The app defaults to F because it gives the more "human" temperature range. It because you are american. For europeans using celsius this is more like hieroglyphs (but I understand it works same other way around).

I've learned to use both C/F (although I admit I am more accustomed to F). More detailed arguments for F for weather here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28524505 Merits of Metric vs. Imperial generalized: - Metric: science-based, regular (powers of 10) - Imperial: human-scaled, divisible (many divisors, including 3) An inch is about the breadth of a human thumb, and a foot is 12 inches. (Also about the length…

possibily one of the worst arguments in favor of something I've ever heard. "human-scaled" just because you grew up in a culture that uses them. In my mind, a foot doesn't mean anything since my foot, my wife's and my daughter's are quite different in lenght, while 30cm is 30cm for everyone - and once you start using meters as unity of measure you can easily envision it in your mind. So, please stop saying "it's clearer", it's NOT.