[APP][Pro] Solar Forecasts (SolCast + Forecast.Solar)

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I vote for solcast also.
In home assistant I can monitor Forecast.Solar also and that one is (way) less accurate.
I have the experience that, for me, solcast has a better prediction for all day and adjusts (better) during the day.

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Hi
How do i combine the 2 sites to one total value?
Want to use the sum of the 2 arrays to get a more “real” forecast, have 2 directions, south and west. Must be rather simple, but can’t find it.

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Just use a variable and make a flow to make the sum of those values. (which triggers when one of them changes)

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ok thx
can you share an example picture?

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FYI the Solcast API is down at the moment.

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Hm, strange, for me it looks like its’s working (calls at 2:00, 8:27, 10:00 and 12:00 were reported as OK and capabilities are being updated)

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Hi,

I followed all the steps for Solcast (register, add values of my PV system,…) and I have an API Key & resource ID.

I also set up the flow for the “fetch solcast update”.

Unfortunately I get API errors:

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Any toughts?

Regards,
Tim

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I’m in the same boat. I’m not even able to see the error message to troubleshoot…

252

Send me a diagnostic report and I will check

253

I retract my statement, it does work now. I don’t now, I waited a few days and created a flow for “Fetch Midnight update”. It seams that just pressing the on/off button on the device itself wasn’t working to get updates (instead it showed the error) after the device creation.

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Is Forecast.Solar down? As of 15:00 today I’m no longer receiving any data :thinking:

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Nope, it’s running still fine.

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Any idea what could be wrong? I’ve also tried creating a new Forecast.Solar device, but it still doesn’t pull any data in :x

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Try a homey reboot, that sometimes fixes a lot of things.
Or wait a day.

If it doesnt work send me a diagnostics report

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@Pieterv123 Reset the app, rebooted Homey, but still no dice… API calls are OK, but no information is coming in. Weird, because it’s been working great for 9 months now.

Diagnostics: 0ba3ec3f-620a-496f-80e3-370c7246b901

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It has nothing to do with the app, but Forecast.Solar returns: invalid location

you check with your location: https://api.forecast.solar/check/4.8/52.36

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Huh; that’s weird. Where is the app getting the coordinates from? If I check the location of Homey, it shows a correct pin :thinking:

Or is it a problem with Forecast and these specific coordinates…

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Mhhh. It also gives an error if I need it the coordinates to Amsterdam Central Station

https://api.forecast.solar/check/4.899431/52.379189

Looks like there’s an issue with Forecast.Solar then?

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I think so. It uses the location of Homey.
I cannot check for the moment as my Homey is dying…