- Added a tracked `LICENSE` file and updated `pyproject.toml` to include license metadata.
- Enhanced `CHANGELOG.md` with recent changes and clarifications.
- Updated `config.ini.example` and related documentation to reflect clamping behavior for numeric limits in `[Feed_Manager]`.
- Improved startup validation to suggest corrections for unknown and misspelled keys.
- Refactored geocoding and HTTP request handling to run off-thread, preventing event loop stalls.
- Added thread safety to cache management in geocoding functions to avoid race conditions.
Finish the lint/type cleanup so all CI gates pass:
- location.py: declare lat/lon as Optional[float] up front. The
fallback/coordinates/repeater branches bind plain floats while the
zipcode/city branches bind float | None from best-effort geocoding, so
a single Optional declaration keeps mypy from pinning the first binding.
- rain_command.py: sort imports to ruff/isort order and mark the
US_STATE_ABBRS / titlecase_location re-exports noqa: F401. They are
listed in __all_location_reexports__ rather than __all__, so ruff does
not recognize them as intentional re-exports on its own.
- test_location_characterization.py: drop a stray blank line (ruff E303).
- Introduced a shared API for location resolution using `modules.location`, allowing for better handling of place lookups (coordinates, ZIP codes, city names).
- Updated geocoding functions to accept both strings and structured dictionaries, improving flexibility in location queries.
- Refactored existing commands (AQI, Rain, Wx) to utilize the new location resolution methods, streamlining the codebase and enhancing maintainability.
- Removed redundant location handling logic from commands, centralizing functionality in the new location module.
- Added tests to ensure proper classification and resolution of various location formats, including multi-word international cities and ZIP codes with surrounding whitespace.
- Added a new function `nws_http_means_no_coverage` to determine if NWS HTTP status codes indicate no coverage for a location.
- Updated `WxCommand` and `WeatherService` classes to utilize this function, improving error handling for NOAA alerts.
- Introduced a lazy loading mechanism for `_nws_alerts_available` to manage alert availability based on NWS coverage status.
- Enhanced logging to provide clearer warnings when NWS alerts are unavailable due to HTTP errors.
- Added cache_ttl parameter to fetch_precip_series_nws to enable caching of results for improved performance.
- Implemented logic to reuse cached results based on location and cache expiration.
- Updated tests to ensure proper handling of cache_ttl without causing errors.
- Refactored WorldCupFastcastClient to streamline connection handling and improve readability.
The Open-Meteo forecast model smooths away scattered, pop-up convection, so the rain nowcast (the rain/snow command and the proactive push) could read 0.0 in / ~12% and stay silent while rain was actually falling. Observed near Nashville: Open-Meteo reported 0.0 in across the next 3 h while NWS's own gridpoint showed 65-74% probability with measurable QPF, and thunderstorms were occurring.
Add fetch_precip_series_nws(), which builds the same nowcast-series shape from the NWS gridpoint forecast (6-hour QPF + hourly PoP + weather type). Each hour's precip is its QPF share, zeroed when that hour's PoP is below a floor, so the predicted rain-start tracks the hourly probability instead of snapping to coarse 6-hour QPF boundaries. Both fetchers now prefer NWS for US points and fall back to Open-Meteo where NWS has no coverage (outside the US) or on failure, so the command and the push agree and the model's convective blind spot no longer silences the alert.
Pure helpers (_iso_duration_hours, _nws_hourly, _nws_weather_code) are unit-tested; the NWS-weather -> WMO-code mapping keeps bucket classification (rain/snow/thunder/...) identical to the Open-Meteo path.
Builds on the merged rain/snow nowcast (#193): ten enhancements plus
end-to-end, proactive, and live-smoke test coverage. All new behavior is
config-gated or additive, so existing deployments are unaffected by default.
Enhancements
- Precip amount estimate "(est 0.2 in)" on the command and the proactive push;
snow shown as real depth (Open-Meteo snowfall, cm); freezing rain tagged "in ice".
- Bare country / US state resolves to its capital with a heads-up
(self-contained modules/region_capitals.py; no pycountry/us dependency).
- join_location() dedupes "Spain, Spain" / city-states.
- !snow alias + neutral !nowcast; each looks for its own precip family across
the window, else falls back with a "No snow, but rain ..." cross-type line.
- Keyword-aware help (help rain / help snow).
- Precip probability shown "(..., 70%)"; the proactive incoming alert is gated
to >= [Weather_Service] rain_nowcast_min_probability (default 50).
- Rain<->snow changeover line when the window holds both families.
- Borderline temperature tag (30-38F).
- Short-lived series cache shared by the command and the proactive poll.
Tests
- test_rain_command_e2e.py: drives RainCommand.execute() end to end and asserts
the exact rendered reply across dry/incoming/raining, snow depth, cross-type
mismatch, changeover, ice, temp tag, region capitals, config toggles, DM
budget, and keyword-aware help.
- test_rain_proactive_e2e.py: drives Weather_Service._check_rain_nowcast() for
the probability gate, snow depth, ending notice, and once-per-episode dedup.
- test_rain_live_smoke.py: opt-in (RAIN_LIVE_SMOKE=1) live Open-Meteo check for
upstream schema drift; skipped in CI.
- Shared scaffolding in tests/unit/_rain_harness.py.
New config: [Rain_Command] show_amount/amount_unit/show_probability/show_temp/
cache_seconds/zip_city_lookup; [Weather_Service] rain_nowcast_min_probability/
rain_nowcast_cache_seconds/rain_nowcast_show_amount/rain_nowcast_amount_unit.
ruff + mypy clean.
Add a rain nowcast (Open-Meteo 15-minutely precipitation — worldwide, no API
key) as both an on-demand `rain`/`nowcast` command and an opt-in Weather_Service
push that announces rain starting and stopping at the bot's position.
- modules/commands/rain_command.py — command plus pure, unit-tested
fetch/analyze/dedup/label helpers (also reused by the service)
- modules/service_plugins/weather_service.py — background poller mirroring the
existing weather-alert poll pattern; ships disabled (opt-in)
- Location labels resolve to "City, ST" (US) / "City, Country" (non-US)
- 34 unit tests; rain_command added to the strict-mypy module list
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