IoT weather display utilizing an ESP8266 processor and an ePaper display.įree weather APIs are never a sure thing, even when it is government data. My IoT weather display using the microcontroller chip ESP8266 currently in development will need to be rewritten with an API from another service. This change particularly hurts the IoT community, which has used the Weather Underground API’s to display weather data on many different devices.

Then CEO David Kenny, responding to the angry reactions of the acquisition said, “I think that once they see that we’re only investing in the product, not changing it or dumbing it down or altering it in some way, then I think that will go away.”Ĭue the storm clouds (and the angry reactions). In 2012, the Weather Underground was purchased by The Weather Channel (later renamed The Weather Company). Weather Underground was born from University of Michigan’s Internet weather database in 1995. The official announcement from Weather Underground is here: This also means that developers have one less free weather option for building weather-based products for use in items like apps and websites. This left developers with no advanced warning to update their products or inform their customers in advance of the change.

On or around May 15, with no announcement or advanced notification, the Weather Underground quietly removed their free API key option for use in their weather products.

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