Overview

With the new Adafruit IO Actions finally released, I wanted to come up with a quick way to test out the new weather block. The weather block is absolutely packed with information. To spin up a quick test, I pulled out my Adafruit Funhouse, and the very convenient servos with the JST connectors already installed. This is the ultimate no-code, no-solder project to dive into Adafruit IO, Wippersnapper, and the new Blockly-based Actions.

Parts Used

Setting Up Your Locations

Before we can start messing around with the new Adafruit IO Actions weather block, we need to add a location to the Weather Power-Up. First click on the Power-Ups link in the top navigation, then click the Get Started button under the Weather Power-Up.

Next, you will need to add your location. Click on the + Add Location button and you will be greeted with a popup.

The pop-up is looking for the latitude and longitude of the location you want to add. You don't have that memorized? No worries, there are free tools we can use to convert a zip code to lat, lon. Here is the one I used: https://www.freemaptools.com/convert-us-zip-code-to-lat-lng.htm

Type in your zip code, and click the convert button. Then copy the latitude and longitude together. We will paste it in the popup in Adafruit IO.

Paste in your lat, lon into the Location field, and then type in the name of your location below. Click Create to save it.

Now that we have the location saved, we can create an Adafruit IO Action with the new weather block.