Struggling with Weather... module

D3dl3g

Just to update the forum, as to what happened behind closed doors

Sam kindly tested my code, and it worked for him.

I am recieving browser errors (previously requested but i wasnt looking in the right bit of the browser window)… he is not

Issues Tab

Console Tab

the last 5 entries here will reoccur, im guessing at every “retry” for weather info

attempted to use useCorsProxy: true to no avail

Sam kindly posted into git hub issues.
https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues/271

karsten13

tested ukmetofficehub and it works out of the box (without setting the useCorsProxy flag).

Looking into the provided config

  weatherProvider: 'ukmetofficedatahub',
  lat: "52.###############",
  long: "-1.###############",

which is messed up. It has to be:

  weatherProvider: 'ukmetofficedatahub',
  lat: 52.###############,
  lon: -1.###############,

sdetweil

@karsten13 I tested w those in quotes, and it worked ok

karsten13

@sdetweil

did only test without, but there is another error lon vs. long …

sdetweil

@karsten13 I just copy pasted and it worked.

weird

D3dl3g

@karsten13

i too am getting this… showing me some 80+miles SEE of my actual location

D3dl3g

@karsten13
also… replace the hash symbols with various numbers… im not posting my exact Lat/Long for obvious reasons…

make sure ur doing

lat:

and

lon:

i had it set to lat & lon(G) which is incorrect. hence why it was 80+miles, way tf over there!

quote marks or none surronding the numbers doesnt appear to matter, for me at least

D3dl3g

This “issue” is fixed.

Advised by Sam, I ran these 2 commands to find modified files that differ from a “clean install/default” of MM.

git status
git diff

Any that varied… I ran:

git checkout <dir-tree>/file.extension

Rebuilt my config.js and found that apiBase HAS to be commented out.

On reflection DO NOT CHANGE ANY FILE aside from “config.js”
I had 3 causes for this issue.

(edit) i had longitude set in config.js to “long:”… it should be “lon:” and the lat/lon do not have to be surrounded by any quote marks.
I’d modified other *.js files, that didn’t need to be modified.
the “apiBase” argument listed in (MagicMirror Documentation > Modules > Weather Module > Configuration Options) was, in my case, not “REQUIRED”.

@sdetweil … Sam, publically, I cant thank you enough for your help with this. Sorry for being a n00b, your insight and help was invaluable, and you taught me some stuff, which is great!!

sdetweil

@D3dl3g glad u got it working. we are all noobs at some of this stuff…