MMM-OpenWeatherForecast - Replacement for MMM-DarkSkyForecast

[Egnos]

Hello there!
Unfortunatly It’s arrived the moment: “… on March 31st, 2023 the Dark Sky API will no longer be available.”, as recalled by the Dark Sky Team in this post: Infos from the Dark Sky Team

In fact today morning MMM-DarkSkyForecast stopped working!

I tried to install its replacement MMM-OpenWeatherForecast, but it didn’t work!
On terminal i hve this error:

[MMM-OpenWeatherForecast] 2-Apr-23 17:23 ** ERROR ** Error: Request failed with status code 401

I have already try to regen the API key on OpenWeatherMap site but the problem persist.

I’m using MagicMirror: v2.22.0

For now i’m using the simple configuration:

{
    module: "MMM-OpenWeatherForecast",
    position: "top_left",
    header: "Forecast",
    config: {
      apikey: "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx", //only string here
      latitude: 45.072870,            //number works here
      longitude: 7.558791          //so does a string
    }
  },

Has anyone had this problem before?
Can you help me?

Thanks.

[sdetweil]

@Egnos see https://github.com/jclarke0000/MMM-OpenWeatherForecast/issues/23

new openweather api version is 3.0, code is hard coded to 2.5

[Egnos]

Hi @sdetweil thanks for answering me!
I had read this post but I didn’t understand what I have to do.
I have to update the node_helper.js version 2.5 to 3.0?

Can you help me?

Thanks.

[sdetweil]

@Egnos yes,

just edit the file and change 2.5 to 3.0

[Egnos]

@sdetweil said in MMM-OpenWeatherForecast - Replacement for MMM-DarkSkyForecast:

edit the file an

In the file “node_helper.js” I have modify:
this https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/onecall?
with this https://api.openweathermap.org/data/3.0/onecall?

but I have the same error:

[02.04.2023 17:58.05.910] [LOG]   [MMM-OpenWeatherForecast] 2-Apr-23 17:58 ** ERROR ** Error: Request failed with status code 401

Where am I doing wrong?

[sdetweil]

@Egnos i’ve seen a number of these…

something to do with registering correctly with version 3 onecall

someone else said

I used the API keys from the website as the one sent in my email did not work.

[Egnos]

@sdetweil I’ve already gone to the OpenWeatherMap site, I’ve regenerated a new API key but still the error…

[sdetweil]

@Egnos sorry, that part I don’t know.

I have ow keys for both 2.5 and 3.0, but its been so long, I don’t remember what I did , altho it was only website

[Egnos]

@sdetweil thanks.

I’m trying to create a new user in the OpenWeatherMap site to have a new API.

In the meantime, if anyone knows how to help me it would be appreciated!:grinning_face_with_sweat:

[sdetweil]

@Egnos i just installed the module and used all my api keys without any problem … I did NOT edit the node_helper…

this is the signup screen I see for v3… need credit card

[sdetweil]

I signed up for the 3.0 api, they updated my default api key

I changed the code to use 3.0 instead of 2.5

and it worked

[Egnos]

@sdetweil said in MMM-OpenWeatherForecast - Replacement for MMM-DarkSkyForecast:

i just installed the module and used all my api keys without any problem … I did NOT edit the node_helper…

I don’t understand what’s different about me…
Did you do anything in particular when you installed?

@sdetweil said in MMM-OpenWeatherForecast - Replacement for MMM-DarkSkyForecast:

this is the signup screen I see for v3… need credit card

So I have to enable “One Call API 3.0 NEW” and put the credit card.
So is it paid?
Did you also have to enter your credit card for it to work?

Thanks!

[sdetweil]

@Egnos i did enter cc… as it is required for v3.

i tried on my older api keys

the key i created a few minutes ago, which worked under api 2.5,
no longer works under 2.5

the keys I had created before today continue to work under 2.5

the default key works under both
they sent me an email, with my apikey, which is my old default key…

[Egnos]

@sdetweil said in MMM-OpenWeatherForecast - Replacement for MMM-DarkSkyForecast:

i did enter cc… as it is required for v3.

but do they take money or in any case a free service?

@sdetweil said in MMM-OpenWeatherForecast - Replacement for MMM-DarkSkyForecast:

i tried on my older api keys
the key i created a few minutes ago, which worked under api 2.5,
no longer works under 2.5
the keys I had created before today continue to work under 2.5
the default key works under both
they sent me an email, with my apikey, which is my old default key…

so I understand that if you don’t activate “One Call API 3.0 NEW” now the module doesn’t work…

Do you know of other weather modules with a similar layout and that don’t have these restrictions?

Thanks.

[sdetweil]

@Egnos if u didn’t have apikeys from 2.5, then you only get keys from 3.0.

now that I have signed up for 3.0 all new keys will be 3.0

maybe pirate weather, which looks like the old darksky API is free for a while.

I see a pull request in the darksky module to use the pirate weather API.

git clone as normal
     or go to that module folder if already installed 
git fetch origin pull/38/head:pirate
git checkout pirate

then get a key from pirateweather
your old darksky module config ‘should’ work unchanged…

every provider is going to a charge model, maybe with some low volumes free ( for a while, til it costs too much to run)

[Egnos]

Hi there,
after various tests I managed to get MMM-DarkSkyForecast to work again with pirate-weather.api.

I followed the @dankerthrone guide on github:
https://github.com/jclarke0000/MMM-DarkSkyForecast/issues/36#issuecomment-1407382499
I’ll just add that it seems that the “beta” of PirateWeather is no longer available, so you have to select “Free Tier” and it works the same.

I also tried install the following module but didn’t work (seems to have the same modify contained in the @dankerthrone guide but I don’t know why it gives an error… )
https://github.com/dankerthrone/MMM-PirateSkyForecast

Thank you @sdetweil for your valuable advice!

[PaulB]

Thank you very much for this great module !

[p1lspeda]

Love this module.
I have one question: how do I increase the icon size and temperature size and have it right-aligned ?

Currently this is what it looks like (I know the icon has not loaded yet), and I’d like it larger and right-aligned.

Any hints as to what I need to adjust within the custom.css ?
Thanks

[Trashbln]

How can I turn off weather alerts? Unfortunately I can’t find a solution for this anywhere

[sdetweil]

@Trashbln there is no feature to do that, but you could add it pretty easily

add a new property to the defaults section

showAlerts: true,

then later around line 350
you need the alerts field for the return following

   var alerts = [];
   if(this.config.showAlerts){
      if (this.weatherData.alerts) {
       // for (alert in this.weatherData.alerts) {
       //   alert.description.replace("\n", "<br />");
       // }

       alerts = this.weatherData.alerts;
     }
}

in your config.js for this module config:{} section add

      showAlerts: false