Polyglot Cloud Help

[Athlon]

I'd like to tinker with Some of the Polyglot Cloud stuff.  I'm completely new at this.  Once I get started, however, I can usually teach myself how to set stuff up.

At this point I'm lost though. Here are some screenshots to help you understand my questions. I'm trying to setup Dark Sky Cloud. I do not have a Raspberry Pi.

What goes in the 'key' and 'value' fields?  (I have a Dark Sky 'secret key' - I registered there to get one.)

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Do I put my Dark Sky email address in the UserID field?  And my Dark Sky API password in the Password field?  And leave everything else alone?

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Dark Sky in 'Name'?  Is my Node Address '3'? (On my ISY Dashboard it says 'DarkSky(3)'). 'What is the Primary Node Address'?

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Sorry for so many questions, but I can't seem to get this to work for me.

 

[TomL]

The 2 admin dialogs I do not believe get any entries.  I to am new to poly and had a similar problem with apixu poly program on the cloud.  I could not figure out the key and value fields either.  The gentleman who wrote it responded, I will try to find post and put it here.  He also wrote the dark sky.   First entry on node server is APIKey. That would be your secret code.  Then I had to enter location, elevation, plant type which I believe was 0.26. The above words are the individual keys value your info.  I am not near a computer at the moment but as I said I will repost it when I can.  Since he authored both I am assuming that the keys would be similar, but you know how that goes.  Hope this helped good luck

[TomL]

The APIXU node server has the following user configuration parameters:

APIkey : Your API ID, needed to authorize connection to the APIXU API.

Location : Specify location using one of the following:

 - latitude and longitude in decimal degrees. I.E. 48.85,2.35
 - city name
 - US zip code
 - UK postcode
 - Canada postal code
 - meta: I.E. metar:EGLL
 - 3 digit airport code I.E. iata:DXB

Units : 'metric' or 'imperial' request data in this units format.

Elevation : The elevation, in meters, of the location.

Plant Type: Used as part of the ETo calculation to compensate or different types of ground cover. Default is 0.23

[bpwwer]

This is something that really needs to be fixed in the Polyglot cloud code. The local RPi Polyglot code lets the node server specify which parameters are required and shows them in the configuration section where all you need to fill out is the proper values.  The cloud version doesn't do this.  The local RPi version will also display help text for the configuration, but the cloud version doesn't. 

Here's the configuration help text for the DarkSky node server:

The DarkSky node server has the following user configuration
parameters:

- APIkey   : Your API ID, needed to authorize connection to the DarkSky API.

- Location : latitude and longitude of the location to query the data for. ex: 42.3601,-71.0589

- Units    : 'si' or 'us' request data in this units format.

- Elevation : The elevation, in meters, of the location.

- Plant Type: Used as part of the ETo calculation to compensate for different types of ground cover.  Default is 0.23

To get an API key, register at www.darksky.net.  

The key names need to be exact, including capitalization and spaces.

Once you have the configuration set, it should automatically created the nodes on the ISY and everything should show up and start populating once you restart the admin console. If not, the real-time log should indicate what failed.

[Athlon]

Thank you both for getting back to me. Sorry for posting my questions in two places, but after a couple of days in the other thread I thought no one had seen it.

@bpwwer - I saw your GitHub page the other day when I first tried to do this, but it didn't click into my head until I saw it again here. It finally dawned on me to enter each configuration one at a time at my Polyglot Cloud page. Nothing needed in my AC, as @TomLsaid.

Working like a charm now! 

I may even try to create one for my Orbit B-Hyve irrigation timers.....

[Athlon]

Seems Orbit has not released or published an API for their sprinkler timers.  ?

[simplextech]

14 minutes ago, Athlon said:

Seems Orbit has not released or published an API for their sprinkler timers.  ?

I have a HomeSeer plugin for LinkTap that I will be porting to Polyglot soon.  Not sure if that would help you as it does not work with Orbit.  I found I like the LinkTap units even if they are a bit pricey.

https://www.link-tap.com/#!/

 

[Athlon]

5 minutes ago, simplextech said:

I have a HomeSeer plugin for LinkTap that I will be porting to Polyglot soon.  Not sure if that would help you as it does not work with Orbit.  I found I like the LinkTap units even if they are a bit pricey.

https://www.link-tap.com/#!/

 

Thanks - they're similar to my Orbit timers and about the same in terms of price. I hadn't seen these before.

I have 4 Orbit timers and one controller for them. They work great, however the app is a bit clunky. I can program them, but I enjoy the challenge ?.

It would be great (and much easier) to be able to program them with the ISY.

 

[simplextech]

1 minute ago, Athlon said:

Thanks - they're similar to my Orbit timers and about the same in terms of price. I hadn't seen these before.

I have 4 Orbit timers and one controller for them. They work great, however the app is a bit clunky. I can program them, but I enjoy the challenge ?.

It would be great (and much easier) to be able to program them with the ISY.

 

Stay tuned and I'll announce when the NS is available.  I'm finishing up some other integrations and once those are done my focus is being mostly redirected to Polyglot.

[TomL]

OK, am I doing something wrong or did I misunderstand.  I installed APIXU Poly cloud node server, all seems to work well, to a degree.  In the device menu of AC there is APIXU and under it several forecasts, all relevant data is there and seems correct.  I was trying to use it in a program, but the only options I get are "Rediscover" , "Remove Notices" or "update profile" and that is only in the then and else sections, in the if section I have no option in device drop-down or any other drop down for APIXU.  I was hoping to use it in program like if Temp is above X then this or if cloud conditions are x then do this, etc..  Do I need a different weather Node server or am I wrong in thinking I can use the data for programs?

[TomL]

I should clarify, am not trying to use forecasts, only current conditions

[Athlon]

1 hour ago, TomL said:

OK, am I doing something wrong or did I misunderstand.  I installed APIXU Poly cloud node server, all seems to work well, to a degree.  In the device menu of AC there is APIXU and under it several forecasts, all relevant data is there and seems correct.  I was trying to use it in a program, but the only options I get are "Rediscover" , "Remove Notices" or "update profile" and that is only in the then and else sections, in the if section I have no option in device drop-down or any other drop down for APIXU.  I was hoping to use it in program like if Temp is above X then this or if cloud conditions are x then do this, etc..  Do I need a different weather Node server or am I wrong in thinking I can use the data for programs?

I'm using Dark sky. for the 'If' section of a program I click 'Condition', then 'Status'. Dark Sky is listed along with my devices and scenes. I can then scroll and choose the conditions it is reporting, like temperature.

The only issue for me at that point is temperature is in Celsius in the program section of my AC, rather than Fahrenheit - not a big deal. I can't seem to figure out where to fix that. It's, Fahrenheit in the main Dark Sky panel, however. 

[TomL]

Thanks I may need to change it to dark sky and instead.  You may need to look up at above post, change si to USor vice versa for units parameter.

[Athlon]

13 hours ago, TomL said:

You may need to look up at above post, change si to USor vice versa for units parameter.

I may not have been clear in what I said - I set it up as US..  

Here is my DS setup at my Polyglot-Cloud page:

 

Here's what it looks like in my AC:

 

Here's what I was talking about when you are in the AC's programming section (Celsius):

 

[bpwwer]

I'm pretty sure those all bugs on my end. There's something wrong in the profile files, possibly related to setting them up with the right units and maybe even something else. It's hard to debug as there's no error, just things not showing up properly.

UDI has offered to help, but I need to find some time to look into it more and talk with them.

[Athlon]

3 minutes ago, bpwwer said:

I'm pretty sure those all bugs on my end. There's something wrong in the profile files, possibly related to setting them up with the right units and maybe even something else. It's hard to debug as there's no error, just things not showing up properly.

UDI has offered to help, but I need to find some time to look into it more and talk with them.

No worries here. I appreciate what you've done so far. I can easily convert F to C for my program. It shows Celsius only in that one place as far as I've seen so far.

[Chioti]

I currently have Polyglot running locally and would like to use Polyglot Cloud as well (mostly for Ring). Is it possible to run both? I can't lose my current Nest node server which for the time being still runs properly.

[Bumbershoot]

3 minutes ago, Chioti said:

I currently have Polyglot running locally and would like to use Polyglot Cloud as well (mostly for Ring). Is it possible to run both? I can't lose my current Nest node server which for the time being still runs properly.

Yes, you can.  I don't think the ISY knows/cares about the difference, as the nodeservers, where ever they're running, simply occupy their own nodeserver slot on the ISY.  It's all networked...

[Chioti]

Thank you. Looks like it is working and hasn't mess up my Nest node. Do you have any idea where I can find a Ring installation/configuration guide? I linked my Ring account but I don't see all of my floodlight cameras and when I go to add node in the admin it is actually asking for an address which is a bit weird as the nodes it did find already have addresses!

[dbuss]

Thank you. Looks like it is working and hasn't mess up my Nest node. Do you have any idea where I can find a Ring installation/configuration guide? I linked my Ring account but I don't see all of my floodlight cameras and when I go to add node in the admin it is actually asking for an address which is a bit weird as the nodes it did find already have addresses!

If you go to the store and click on Ring it will take you to the instructions in github. You may want to try stopping Ring in Polyglot Cloud. Then restarting it to see if it finds all your devices.


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