API Trial suitable for home use?
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I would also like to use Windy with Home Assistant. I am willing to pay a Professional version for this feature.
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I am yet another Windy Premium Subscriber who is willing to pay for a Home Assistant Integration. I am actually right now looking into the weather service I am going to subscribe to next, when My yearly Premium Subscription with Windy is expired. I would love to stay with Windy as I LOVE the App, but right now I am paying for an OpenWeatherMap Subscription so that I can use their API in my Home Assistant so that I can use my automations that are triggered based on the weather, and it doesn't make sense to subscribe to 2 Weather Services, when one can do everything I want. I do prefer the Windy App, but the automations are even more important to my daily life.
I really hope you guys wake up to the fact that there is a market out there of paying customers who just want to be able to use your services inside Home Assistant, and start providing that ability.
I do like the product, but will be unsubscribing when my subscription is up, if this ability still isn't offered. Simply because other services, who aren't quite as accurate as you but are good enough, are willing to provide the ability to integrate with Home Assistant, and you are not. I really do hope this changes in the near future. Thank You.
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as a premium user would like to have temperature forecast for my location in home assistant
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@Suty what is the status on this, it has been nearly two years and the API is there anyway. It shouldn’t add any significant stress to your API if you officially support private integrations for premium users, as you are already handling all the commercial customers.
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Hello,
I am also a frequent Home Assistant user and would like to see a Windy integration so I can continue using automations that were previously triggered by data from the AccuWeather API, which unfortunately is no longer free.
This is a topic with high demand; with a simple web search we can find, as in this Reddit example, many people looking for alternative solutions.
I have previously had a Windy Premium subscription and would subscribe again if you were to develop a Home Assistant integration.
Thanks
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Well I keep this post going and as per the other users would be interested in order to integrate in to Home Assistant.
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I don't really feel like this is going to move forward, but I'd be interested in the API too. So +1 request for that.
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“Thanks for the info! I was actually wondering whether the API trial is suitable for small home projects or personal use. Is it stable enough for testing and light automation, or is it mainly designed for business-level integration?”
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@Powell1 API trial has only testing purposes and it generates random data.
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Hi everyone. I just started to try out Windy today and within a few hours thought about finding out how to integrate with HA. I found this thread and read down eagerly waiting for the “we’ve listened to our loyal community and created a home API license for HA”.
Instead I found 95 posts of “I want this” over two years and nothing but 3 posts of “I’ll ask the team”.
Now the API license is about 1000 euros. I’m wondering if someone would take on the task of buying one of these and then farming out the data for all HA users to subscribe to? I imagine 100 posts in here of “I’ll even pay a small fee for it” suggests you might be able to get away with 5 euros per year per user. You’d need to cover hosting and traffic costs but you’d just be a passthrough of the API calls and little need to cache anything IMO since weather data is always changing.
The trial is generous and would allow significant development and testing. Claude would have this built and deployed to AWS in a day probably. The hardest part would be the payment gateway and account management service.
All of this of course could just be handled by Windy by slightly altering a product to suit home power users……
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Putting my money where my mouth is. Windy customer support has been reaching out to me because its time for my premium membership to renew but I had locked my card to not allow any more purchases through, so they have been emailing me asking me to update my card so that they can get their money for the next year of services.
I checked to see if they have even bothered to respond to this thread this year, and they haven't. Its a shame because I love the service, but I need to be able to create automations in home assistant triggered by the weather data, and they still haven't even entertained the idea of implementing it (Or if they have they haven't bothered updating us).
So, I am putting my money where my mouth is, and will be going with a competitor that doesn't have as accurate of data, but they care enough to take the time to make a Home Assistant Integration, so I will not be renewing my membership. But I will keep an eye on this thread, the second the company decides to take advantage of this segment of the market, I will subscribe again. Would love to hear the services you guys have been using for your weather data in home assistant.
