get_noaa_weather built the Tonight part only when _noaa_period_str returned one, but the detail and append steps after it ran either way. With no temperature or short forecast, period_str was unbound and the whole reply became "Error fetching weather data"; after a night-time Today part it still held that part, which was appended a second time. The steps now sit under the same check, as in the Today and Tomorrow blocks.
wx and gwx name the place only when it adds information: a city outside default_state or default_country, or a position. always_show_location (default false) names every place a lookup finds instead, including cities in the bot's own state and ZIP codes.
For a ZIP code, gwx now does a reverse lookup when the option is on (it skipped that since the name was never shown), and wx reuses the reverse lookup it already did for a companion position. A failed lookup leaves the reply unnamed rather than repeating the ZIP code. The prefix comes out of the message budget as before. The option is in the wx settings schema for the web viewer, the example config, the command reference and the changelog.
The hourly forecast still showed ☀️ for clear hours after dark. I now request Open-Meteo's hourly is_day with the hourly forecast and pick each hour's emoji from it, falling back to 06:00–18:00 local when it's absent, as the current conditions do.
At 5:58 am wx 98258 (Open-Meteo provider) replied "Tonight: ☀️Clear … | H:68°F L:50°F | Tomorrow: 🌫️ H:67°F L:51°F". Any hour before 06:00 was labeled "Tonight", which next to today's high/low and a "Tomorrow" for the following day read like last night's forecast, and code 0 always showed a sun.
I now request Open-Meteo's is_day and use it for both the label and the emoji, falling back to 06:00–18:00 local when it's absent. Night before noon is "Overnight" (the NWS name for that period, new key in every catalog), night after noon stays "Tonight". Clear and mostly clear at night show 🌙. Tomorrow's segment adds its description when it fits and keeps the emoji-only form otherwise.
Goldens change for the new request field, Overnight on the fixtures captured after midnight, 🌙 on clear night fixtures, and tomorrow's description.
A codex re-review of the last two commits confirmed their fixes and found three gaps. wx alerts (and gwx alerts) with no location looked up a place called "alerts"; the option now applies to the fallback location like the others. A custom source named like an option (custom.wxsim.hourly or custom.mqtt_weather.hourly) was treated as the option and answered from the default source; a configured name now wins. The full alert list (wx <place> alerts) kept sending after a refused first message and reported success; it now stops and reports the refusal.
- A scheduled {cmd:gwx ...} or {cmd:wx ...} with a forecast and an alert slept out the TX pacing between them during capture; with bot_tx_rate_limit_seconds = 30 that passed the 30 s render timeout and the whole reply was lost. Pacing is skipped when the message has a capture_sink.
- gwx tomorrow ignored its byte budget (a Russian Reykjavik forecast was 99 bytes against 89). It now drops the precipitation amount, gusts, wind, the precipitation chance and the description, in that order. The Open-Meteo goldens give tomorrow runs a roomy budget, since their key-name translator makes the text much longer than real; trimming is tested with real catalogs in test_gwx_tomorrow_budget.
- Custom default sources (bare wx/gwx) still returned True after a refused send.
- An option without a location (wx hourly, gwx tomorrow, wx 5d) showed usage, since the fallback location was resolved before the option was parsed; the option now applies to the fallback, custom default sources included. The docs say how far each provider's forecast reaches.
- wx read its unit settings through get_config_value, whose [Weather] fallback logged a notice to move them into [Wx_Command] on every lookup (14 per reply); _unit_setting reads [Wx_Command], then [Weather], without it.
- NOAA forecasts that mention thunderstorms after sun ("Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms") still got ☀️; thunderstorms now outrank sun.
- The catalog tests passed with keys removed, since a missing key differs from English; they now require each key and every wind point, with en-GB and Polish allowed to use the English letters.
A space bunny review (about 110,000 old-versus-new cases, two differences found) noted that the shared companion lookup returned silently when the bot had no db_manager, where dev's aurora and rain logged the AttributeError at DEBUG (and wx and gwx at WARNING). The guard is gone, so all four log it again. Unreachable in production, since the bot does not start without a database.
A space bunny review of this branch's commits found:
- gwx's high-wind warning converted the speed to mph for every catalog, so on a km/h bot it read 49 next to a reply saying 80, and Polish (whose template said km/h) regressed in the merge. The threshold stays 30 mph; the warning shows the speed in the configured unit with a {unit} placeholder in every catalog.
- tomorrow_not_available, tomorrow_error, multiday_not_available and multiday_error were still English in seven catalogs; they are translated, and the catalog test now fails on any weather reply left in English.
- wx kept NOAA's English wind letters and English weekday letters while gwx's are translated, so one German bot showed NE and NO for the same wind. wx now translates both through the catalog (commands.wx.day_abbrev added); English output is byte-for-byte unchanged, which the goldens show (their stub translator gives English for these short labels, via tests.helpers.key_name_translate).
- Polish feels_like was ungrammatical (odczuwalna -> odczuwalnie), Russian's used a nonstandard abbreviation, and Russian gwx's MQTT subscriber error lacked wx's hint.
- The help text (commands.wx.description/usage, commands.gwx.usage) described wx as ZIP-only; it now lists cities, coordinates and the options, under 130 bytes in every language.
- The generated default config, the docs' default_state wording, _fit_tomorrow_parts' docstring and the CHANGELOG's stats claim were inaccurate.
The command reference described wx as ZIP-only and gwx as a list of fields. It now gives both commands' accepted locations, options (tomorrow, hourly, Nd, alerts), the order they fall back through when no location is given, the unit settings, when the reply names the place, what custom WXSIM and MQTT sources answer, and that both work in scheduled messages. The config example's default_state/default_country comments say how they affect the place name, the no-location comment lists default_city, and the weather service page lists the wind units that actually exist.
The weather service took [Weather] wind_speed_unit = kn, while wx and gwx rejected it with a warning and used mph, so the same setting gave knots in one and mph in the other. Knots now work in all of them: Open-Meteo is asked for kn, NOAA's mph and km/h values and station gusts are converted, gwx's high-wind warning converts back to mph for its threshold, and the WXSIM parser converts its km/h. The web config's wind unit choices gain m/s and knots.
Nine catalogs lacked 30 of the keys wx and gwx use, so a German or Spanish bot answered with English weekday letters (M, T, W, Th), English "feels" and English MQTT and "not available" errors, and gwx and the weather service named wind directions in English. They now have translations, including the 16 wind points in local letters (Polish keeps the international ones, which the English catalog supplies). en-GB gets the English text so every catalog is complete, and Russian gets the two new hourly/custom-source replies. A test keeps each catalog covering these keys.
gwx prefixed every reply with the resolved place. It now follows wx's policy: a city is named when it resolved to another country than [Weather] default_country or, in the US, to another state than default_state (or no default_state is set); coordinates are named when the reverse lookup found a place; a ZIP code is not named. A failed reverse lookup for coordinates used to turn the input into a label like "47.60620, -122.33210" (the longitude standing in for a country); such replies now have no label. The ZIP path drops its reverse-geocoding request, whose only use was the label.
format_tomorrow_forecast took max_length and never used it, so two long periods (Miami's "Chance Showers And Thunderstorms" day and night) came to 132 bytes against a 100-118 byte budget and the send path split the reply in two. It now tries the full reply, then without the night period's wind, without any wind, the first period alone, and that period without wind. Measured over the captured NOAA forecasts with the real English catalog at budgets 100-235, nothing overruns now (15 of 384 did); gwx and wx's default reply already fit. The regenerated goldens differ only in tomorrow keys, whose key-name translations are longer than real text.
Follow-up parts of a wx or gwx reply skip the per-user rate limit, since the limiter already let the first part through. When it had not (rate-limited, or the send failed), the alert after the forecast and the later parts of a multi-day forecast still went out on their own. Now a refused first part ends the reply. The multi-day sender also sent a forecast that fits one message only after dropping blank lines as a continuation, skipping the limit; the first message now always goes through it. execute returns whether the reply was sent, which the stats and web viewer record.
NOAA writes "Chance of precipitation is 60%." and "with gusts as high as 25 mph", and none of the precipitation or gust patterns allowed either, so the 🌦️ and 💨 details never appeared for real forecasts (the captured Miami, Anchorage and Denver forecasts all carry them). High/low extraction took only unsigned numbers and rejected Fahrenheit values under 20, so "Low around -5." or a high of 14 lost the high/low. Both now cover NOAA's range, -65 to 130 °F or -55 to 55 °C. The regenerated goldens differ only by the newly read details, which at tight budgets now take the place of pressure.
The codex review of this port also found that the shared companion lookup dropped the three DEBUG lines wx and gwx logged on dev (no sender key, no row for the key, the position found). get_companion_lat_lon takes a trace flag that wx and gwx pass; rain and aurora, which never logged these, stay quiet. With trace, a bot without a db_manager logs the lookup error at the caller's level again instead of returning silently.
Goldens conflicted; I regenerated them, and against this branch they differ only in NOAA emojis, gwx wind labels and the Phoenix width budgets the merged branch corrected. gwx's new hourly test expected the old truncating conversion (202.5° as SW); with nearest-point directions it is SSW.
A review of this branch found three things. Moving the partly/mostly cloudy check ahead of rain gave forecasts like "Chance Rain Showers then Mostly Cloudy" (ten of the 79 forecasts it sampled from live NWS points) a sun-behind-cloud emoji; rain and snow now come before every cloud check, so they get 🌦️ or ❄️. A NaN or infinite wind direction made gwx's new nearest-point conversion raise; it is now left out like a null one. The Phoenix daily-width test's budgets were written for a reply one byte shorter (SW is now WSW), so they no longer pinned <= at equality; they are 330/343 now and the regenerated golden shows each segment fitting exactly at its budget.
Conflicts: NOAA hourly wind keeps this branch's full 16-point direction and fix/noaa-configured-units' speed conversion (a test pins both); gwx's hourly forecast returns (reply, {}) like the other forecast types since fix/gwx-warnings-structured, and _open_meteo_current keeps fix/gwx-missing-current's Optional return.
fix/gwx-missing-current returns the fetch error as a bare string when the current temperature is missing, and this branch moved that code into a method whose callers unpack (reply, current conditions). Git merged it without a conflict; the merged early return now returns the pair, so the reply is the fetch error again instead of an unpacking error.
The distorted-London golden conflicted; I regenerated it, and it differs from this branch only in the no_current and null_temp keys the merged change means to move.
The multi-day formatter from fix/weather-multiday-days still tested the period temperature for truthiness, so with both branches a 0° day (common in Celsius) dropped out of the multi-day forecast again. It now uses _has_temp like the older formatter.
A review pointed out that Open-Meteo documents WMO code 97 as a heavy thunderstorm, and neither gwx nor the weather service knew it: the reply showed an unknown condition with the generic emoji and gwx gave no thunderstorm warning. It now has a description in every language, the ⛈️ emoji and the thunderstorm warning.
A review found two more paths in geocode_city_sync still testing coordinates for truthiness: the lookup with a state parsed from the query and the [Weather] default_state fallback. A place on the equator or prime meridian found there (or cached) was thrown away, so the reply fell through to later lookups or failed.
A review found that an Open-Meteo response with no wind_direction_10m key still defaulted the direction to 0°, so the reply read ⬆️N; a null direction was already left out. Both now give the wind speed with no direction.
gwx was not render_safe, so {cmd:gwx ...} expanded to nothing, while {cmd:wx ...} already ran gwx through delegation when weather_provider = openmeteo. gwx sends every reply, including the two-part warning, through send_response, which is what render_safe requires. Tests render gwx (plain and two-part replies) through the real CommandManager capture and check nothing is transmitted.
gwx's _degrees_to_direction picked the 8-point sector starting below the angle (22.5° → NE, 241° → SW, negative angles → N); it now picks the nearest of the 16 points the catalog already translates, with the arrow wx uses, via _COMPASS_16/_ARROWS_8 moved to weather_common so both commands share them. wx's get_weather_emoji tested 'cloudy' before 'partly cloudy'/'mostly cloudy' and rain before thunderstorms, so those got ☁️ and 🌦️; thunderstorms (and 't-storm') now come right after heavy rain, and the partly/mostly cloudy check before plain cloudy. Golden moves: NOAA emojis for thunderstorm and partly/mostly cloudy periods (Seattle hourly fits one more hour, ⛅ being shorter than ☁️), and gwx wind labels where the nearest point differs.
A codex review of this PR found three problems. Station observation gusts come in km/h (unitCode wmoUnit:km_h-1) and were multiplied as m/s, so a 36 km/h gust showed as 80 mph (an existing bug in the default mode) and as 129 km/h or 36 m/s in the new ones; gusts and visibility now follow their unitCode. Four 'if temp' guards treated 0° as missing, which Celsius makes common; they test for a missing value instead. The forecast-text gust fallback only knew mph and did not convert; it now reads mph or km/h and converts to the configured unit.
A codex review found two holes in using the first NOAA period's date as today: at 1 AM the first period can still be the night that began the evening before, so tomorrow and multi-day started a day early; and one period without startTime switched the forecast to date grouping and then dropped that period (multi-day showed Friday night's low as Friday). Today is now the current instant in the UTC offset NOAA writes on its periods; an undated period takes its neighbor's date (same date for a night after a day, else the next). With the characterization clock at Thursday afternoon the drop-period variants start on Friday again, as before this PR; against the base branch only Miami's seven-day forecast (a seventh date) and its already-started hourly entry differ for NOAA.
A codex review of this PR found that geocode_city_sync (and its async and step-generator forms) still tested coordinates for truthiness in ten places, so a country-qualified lookup that found a place on the equator or prime meridian was discarded and the fallback queries tried instead; wx's own None check never saw it. They now test for None. The new test drives geocode_city_sync itself with only the first lookup succeeding, which fails before this change. The CHANGELOG entry's lookup count is corrected.
gwx advertised hourly but parsed it as part of the place name. It now requests Open-Meteo's hourly precipitation probability alongside the hourly fields it already got and formats the hours after Open-Meteo's location-local current time in wx's compact one-reply style, sharing the hour label, description shortening and byte packing through WeatherCommandMixin. Hourly lines drop the wind arrow (both commands) so the arrow's six bytes do not push an hour out of the reply; wx's NOAA hourly now keeps the full 16-point letters instead of the first two. WXSIM sources answer hourly and alerts with source_option_not_available instead of their default conditions; wx no longer skips an MQTT alias for alerts (the alias then got geocoded as a city); gwx answers 'alerts' the same way. WXSIM highs and lows of exactly 0° are no longer treated as missing, and gwx warns about a stale WXSIM forecast as wx does. Only noaa_wx_hourly_seattle moved (WNW/NNW instead of WN/NN).
_check_extreme_conditions regex-searched the finished, translated reply: it only saw temperatures followed by °F (so -10°F read as 10 and Celsius replies never warned), took the number after a direction label as the wind speed and called it mph whatever the unit, and lost it when the direction letters were translated. The check now gets the current conditions from the same Open-Meteo request (via _get_open_meteo_weather_with_conditions; get_open_meteo_weather keeps its signature) and uses the weather codes the description match stood for (65/82 heavy rain, 95/96/99 thunderstorms, 75/85/86 snow), and the temperature and sustained wind converted to °F and mph for the unchanged thresholds. Warning text and the multi_message shape are unchanged.
_open_meteo_current defaulted every missing current field to 0, so a response without current conditions read as clear skies, 0° and 0% humidity, and called int() on present-but-null fields, which failed the whole reply. A missing current temperature now returns None (the caller replies with error_fetching and logs a warning); null or absent humidity, wind, gusts, feels-like and weather code are each left out. The no_current and null_temp distortion goldens move accordingly; nothing else does.
NOAA replies were always in °F and mph, and the station observations were converted to °F, miles and mph regardless of [Weather] temperature_unit and wind_speed_unit, which gwx honored. With Celsius configured, wx now requests NOAA's SI units (units=si, which also makes the forecast text it extracts highs and lows from metric), shows visibility in km and dew point in °C; wind speeds and observed gusts are converted to the configured mph/kmh/ms. Units resolve as the WXSIM path already did: [Wx_Command] if set, else [Weather], invalid values fall back to fahrenheit/mph. Defaults are unchanged and no golden moved. config.ini.example comments out [Wx_Command]'s copies of the unit keys, which silently pinned wx to Fahrenheit when an operator switched [Weather] to Celsius.
A no-coverage reply (400/404) from the NWS alerts API set a single flag on wx and on the weather service that skipped every later alert request for the rest of the run, so one wx request for a city abroad silently removed alerts from every US reply after it. NWSNoCoverageCache remembers no-coverage per point rounded to two decimals, for 24 hours, at most 256 points (least recently used dropped first); a successful response clears its point, and the warning is logged once per point. The weather service polls one position, so for it the change means a retry after 24 hours instead of never.
A codex review of this port found solarforecast relying on the enabled_attr hook, which dev's BaseCommand does not have, so [Solarforecast_Command] enabled = false stopped working; its can_execute override is back as on dev. It also found names an earlier refactor commit had dropped as unused, which local plugins could still read: WxCommand.forecast_duration, num_wx_alerts, use_metric, zulu_time and geolocator, geolocator on gwx and solarforecast, the WXSIM_PARSER_AVAILABLE and WX_INTERNATIONAL_AVAILABLE flags, and the _mqtt_weather_error_key hook (now a WeatherCommandMixin method that _mqtt_weather_line calls through self, so an override takes effect again). tests/unit/test_weather_compat_surface.py pins all of them.
wx took "today" from the bot's clock: on a server running UTC, or answering for a city in another zone, tomorrow and multi-day started a day late, and hourly compared NOAA's local wall-clock times with the bot's after dropping their offsets, keeping hours that had passed. wx now takes today from the forecast's first period date and compares hourly times as absolute times; multi-day groups NOAA periods by their start date, which also keeps holiday-named periods ("Columbus Day") the weekday-name grouping skipped. Name-based grouping remains the fallback when periods have no startTime. gwx chose Today/Tonight and the multi-day weekday labels from the bot's clock; it now uses Open-Meteo's location-local current time and daily dates. gwx also asked for N days counting today and then skipped today, so 7d showed six days; it now asks for N+1 (capped at Open-Meteo's 16). The NOAA characterization clock gains its time zone, so aware comparisons do not depend on the machine running the tests; the regenerated goldens move only where these fixes apply (drop-period variants whose first period is a later day, Miami's already-started 6 PM hour, gwx Today/Tonight and weekday labels, and gwx's forecast_days request parameter).
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