Weatherman has listed the solution I will describe here. Sure enough, the to fix the broken Weather Underground issue you need to manually apply your own API key. So, if you use XBMC with a weather app you may have noticed that Weather Underground has been marked as broken. Ronie vaguely details here that the Weather Underground app is broken due to API. I’m using the below method and not the zip file to help avoid bloat, which my install already suffers from.Įdit 2: I created a video resource for the below steps you can find here. Both solutions work I suggested picking the one you anticipate being more permanent, but neither should be overwritten in updates. This key will be added in the new add ons settings. You will still need to generate the WU API key per instructions below.

$apiKey (Can be blank now or just 'yourAPIKeyHere') as it is not actually needed yet.Edit 2: Weather Underground has a full replacement you should get instead called OpenWeatherMap.Įdit: As a partial alternative to the below, you can install a Weather Underground zip file found here.

You'll need to setup the following variables: For this portion I will stick to the part that you don't even need and API key for! (Although, you may want to grab one, here) Requirements I'm doing all this to learn the ins and outs of handling APIs with PowerShell, as well as to feed my inner weather and script geek. like perhaps an alert check on an interval that sends you a text if there is a weather alert. I'm thinking of things to add to it all the time now.

Return (in PowerShell) the forecast for the city you specify.

Email a Squarespace gallery with a random camera shot from the city you specify.

Current (randomly selected) webcam shot from the city you specified.

Email you an HTML email with the following:.

I'm a bit of a weather geek so I was excited when I found out that Weather Underground has one available for free! What I've done so far I haven't messed with APIs too much in the past, but now I'm all about it. After doing some work with the Victor OPs API, I personally wanted to see what else was out there.

Wunderground api key