RAPP Weather Reporter allows users to get details about current or future weather conditions. It provides two services; a) current weather conditions and b) weather forecast. The user has to provide his current city, which could be evaluated using RAPP Geolocator. The availability of weather services that rely on third party APIs such as YWeahter are restricted according to the APIs' rules and limitations. Thus, service call failures may exist.

Currently supported weather reporters:

In order for the ForecastIO weather reporter to be deployed an API key is required. After obtaining the key via registration, the key should be stored in the following location: ``` ${HOME}/.config/rapp_platform/api_keys/forecast.io ```

ROS Services

Current Weather

Service URL: /rapp/rapp_weather_reporter/current_weather

Service Type: ```

The desired city

string city

The weather API

string weather_reporter

The return value units

int8 metric

string error

string date string temperature string weather_description string humidity string visibility string pressure string wind_speed string wind_temperature string wind_direction ``` Available weather_reporter values:

'' (uses default weather reporter)
'yweather'
'forecastio'

Weather Forecast

Service URL: /rapp/rapp_weather_reporter/weather_forecast

Service Type: ```

The desired city

string city

The weather API

string weather_reporter

The return value units

int8 metric

string error

rapp_platform_ros_communications/WeatherForecastMsg[] forecast ```

Available weather_reporter values:

'' (uses default weather reporter)
'yweather'
'forecastio'

WeatherForecastMsg.msg

``` string high_temperature string low_temperature string description string date ```

Launchers

Standard Launcher

Launches the rapp weather reporter node and can be invoked by executing:

roslaunch rapp_weather_reporter weather_reporter.launch

HOP Services

Current weather

Service URL: localhost:9001/hop/weather_report_current

Input/Output

``` Input = { city: '', weather_reporter: '', metric: 0 } ```

Available weather_reporter values:

'' (uses default weather reporter)
'yweather'
'forecastio'

``` Output = { date: '', temperature: '', weather_description: '', humidity: '', visibility: '', pressure: '', wind_speed: '', wind_temperature: '', wind_direction: '', error = '' } ```

Weather forecast

Service URL: localhost:9001/hop/weather_report_forecast

Input/Output

``` Input = { city: '', weather_reporter: '', metric: 0 } ```

Available weather_reporter values:

'' (uses default weather reporter)
'yweather'
'forecastio'

``` Output = { forecast: [], error: '' } ```