openweathermap.org not working with free version

[kalazzerx]

I was trying to use the OWM and it was not working after I added the API key (free version). I did some poking around and it appears that the map API calls used are not supported in the free version. From what I could tell the 'advanced weather maps' API is currently being called which requests a paid subscription (https://openweathermap.org/price#weather).

These are the errors I am seeing in my browser console

GET https://a.sat.owm.io/vane/2.0/weather/WS10/8/67/102?appid=<myapikey was here> 401 (Unauthorized)

page content:

{"cod":401, "message": "Invalid API key. Please see http://openweathermap.org/faq#error401 for more info."}

401 is an unauthorized error per the faq page - I did run an API call against basic maps with my API key and did not have an issue.

Advance weather maps API call example
http://maps.openweathermap.org/maps/2.0/weather/{op}/{z}/{x}/{y}?appid=[{API key}

Basic weather maps API call example
https://tile.openweathermap.org/map/{layer}/{z}/{x}/{y}.png?appid={API key}

If that is a known requirement then would be nice to add that to the documentation. If I am totally missing something then let me know.

BTW, thank you for the great work building this! I appreciate what you are doing.

[Thom-x]

Hi, it was probably free before and it is not now. I'll update the tiles to use the free URLs if possible or add it to the doc 👍.

[kalazzerx]

Thanks!

[Thom-x]

I updated the doc, you need a paid account. My key is working for a bit of time, but I run out of free requests after some time.

[shadowpanther]

Hey @Thom-x is there a possibility to use Weather maps 1.0 API (available for a Free subscription tier) instead of 2.0 (available for 140GBP/mo)?
1.0 API description is here: https://openweathermap.org/api/weathermaps

Looks like x/y/z is the same, but there are fewer layers and layer names are different in 1.0 compared to 2.0.