[bossanova808]

Ok, @DavidFW1960  (and anyone else who has time to try it out!)

Here is a test version of the new OzWeather (the intention is this will be released as V2.0.0. This zip is marked as 1.9.92 so that when the official version comes along you still get that...should work!)

The major change here is it now uses the BOM api directly, vs. scraping WeatherZone data.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/44fxj0qi8cxpu1...2.zip?dl=0

If you are testing, please test like this:

• Enable debug logging (https://kodi.wiki/view/Log_file/Easy)
  
• Start Kodi fresh (i.e. if running, reboot it)
  
• Install new OzWeather from the above linked zip file
  
• First, check your OzWeather page without doing any re-configuring
  OzWeather should continue to fetch any previously configured weather locations.  If you see any errors - please upload your full debug log & post a link to it.
  
• You should see a note in your extended forecast area about OzWeather using 'FALLBACK WeatherZone data'
  Any existing old WeatherZone locations are now used as fallback locations
  (Leave the WeatherZone locations in place as fallbacks and is the BOM api is every unavailable, it will automatically drop back to the legacy data source)
  
• The next step is to go in to the addon settings and configure your new BOM locations. 
  
• You should then be getting official BOM data for those locations (notably faster!) - If you see any errors - please post your full debug log
  
• I have removed the periodic updating of radar backgrounds. 
  Instead, there is a new option in the addon settings to force a purge/refresh of addon background on your next weather fetch. 
  Use this if you encounter / have encountered any missing background issues.
  I have modified how the backgrounds are retrieved and believe this is much less likely to encounter issues going forward
  

Note - available via my private repository - https://github.com/bossanova808/reposito...-0.2.0.zip
I have also released OzWeather Skin Patcher 0.1.1 which can be used to install new Oz Weather skin files for Confluence, Estuary, and Estouchy .. these have been tweaked slightly as there are slight differences in the BOM data vs. Weatherzone.

Note:
Bugs are likely - it's almost a complete re-write.
** If you see any errors - please upload your full debug log & post a link to it.
** If you see any missing outlook icons (they have a diagonal yellow stroke through them) - please post the code shown in that day's outlook, exactly as you see it (e.g. [storm] Showers, storm likely.)

STILL TO DO:
Update the first post of this thread
Update the Kodi Wiki entry
Fix any bugs...
Submit the new version to the Kodi overlords

REMEMBER:
The BOM JSON API does not 'officially' exist.  (Indeed, I have an email from them where they simply deny it exists altogether!). 
Thus there's no guarantee it will continue working, or e.g. at some point require some sort of login. 
Thus, the addon will fallback to WeatherZone if needed (but this no longer supplies BOM forecast data unfortunately). 
However, there are lots of things using that BOM API out there on github, and it's apparently been around for a while now already
.....so fingers crossed all will go well from here and we'll be back to having that excellent BOM forecast data!

UPDATES
1.9.9 initial test release
1.9.91 fixed reported issue with setting BOM locations, add mapping for 'storm' outlook icon. Missing icons descriptors will now appear in the GUI (short outlook for that day, in square brackets) - for easy bug reports for missing icon issues.
1.9.92 Removed no longer needed setting, and fixed ABC weather video