How to use Yr as a weather provider

[MajorC]

Hi,

I would like to use the new v2.22.0 feature of Yr as weather provider.

I changed

weatherProvider: "yr",

I think I need a new apiKey. What about the location and locatioID?

Any advise are appreciated.

Thank you

[karsten13]

@MajorC

see https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror-Documentation/pull/134/files

will hopefully soon merged into official documentation (there are merge conflicts …)

[karsten13]

as follow up: That was merged today so you find it now in the offical documentation https://docs.magicmirror.builders/modules/weather.html#yr-options

[MajorC]

@karsten13

My config looks like this:

{
			module: "weather",
			position: "top_right",
			config: {
				showHeader: true,
				weatherProvider: "yr",
				type: "current",
				lat: "52.5544",
				lon: "13.4635",
				roundTemp: true,
			}
		},

But the mirror only says “loading…” all the time.

Any ideas how to deal with that? I use MM v2.24.0

[sdetweil]

@MajorC said in How to use Yr as a weather provider:

  		type: "current",
  		lat: "52.5544",
  		lon: "13.4635",

numbers and true/false do not use quotes…

open the developers window, ctrl-shift-i on the MM page,
select the console tab and put,

wea 

in the filter field to see only messages from the weather module

[MajorC]

@sdetweil you are absolute right. But still:

yr.js:311 Could not load weather data. SyntaxError: Unexpected non-whitespace character after JSON at position 4 (line 1 column 5)
    at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)
    at performWebRequest (utils.js:27:29)
(anonymous) @ yr.js:311
Promise.catch (async)
getStellarDataFromYr @ yr.js:310
getStellarDataFromYrOrCache @ yr.js:268
(anonymous) @ yr.js:231
getStellarData @ yr.js:213
getCurrentWeather @ yr.js:47
fetchCurrentWeather @ yr.js:35
(anonymous) @ weather.js:190
setTimeout (async)
scheduleUpdate @ weather.js:187
start @ weather.js:99
startModules @ loader.js:25
loadNextModule @ loader.js:218
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadModules @ loader.js:221
init @ main.js:471
await in init (async)
(anonymous) @ main.js:593
yr.js:285 Error: SyntaxError: Unexpected non-whitespace character after JSON at position 4 (line 1 column 5)
    at yr.js:312:11
(anonymous) @ yr.js:285
Promise.catch (async)
getStellarDataFromYrOrCache @ yr.js:284
(anonymous) @ yr.js:231
getStellarData @ yr.js:213
getCurrentWeather @ yr.js:47
fetchCurrentWeather @ yr.js:35
(anonymous) @ weather.js:190
setTimeout (async)
scheduleUpdate @ weather.js:187
start @ weather.js:99
startModules @ loader.js:25
loadNextModule @ loader.js:218
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadModules @ loader.js:221
init @ main.js:471
await in init (async)
(anonymous) @ main.js:593
yr.js:41 Unable to get stellar data from Yr.
(anonymous) @ yr.js:41
Promise.catch (async)
fetchCurrentWeather @ yr.js:40
(anonymous) @ weather.js:190
setTimeout (async)
scheduleUpdate @ weather.js:187
start @ weather.js:99
startModules @ loader.js:25
loadNextModule @ loader.js:218
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadNextModule @ loader.js:211
await in loadNextModule (async)
loadModules @ loader.js:221
init @ main.js:471
await in init (async)
(anonymous) @ main.js:593
yr.js:42 Uncaught (in promise) Error: Unable to get stellar data from Yr.
    at yr.js:42:11

with config:

	{
			module: "weather",
			position: "top_right",
			config: {
				showHeader: true,
				weatherProvider: "yr",
				type: "current",
				lat: 52.5544,
				lon: 13.4635,
				//roundTemp: true
			}
		},


[sdetweil]

@MajorC the api returned data the module did not expect and did not handle the error…

the exact cause of the error is unknown as the code did not report it…

i have seen quite a lot of sloppy api programming lately…

the rules are pretty clear

rc=200 means all good
other errors 300/400/500 families provide specific info

but a lot of apis return 200 even for error cases and THEN the code has to decode the TEXT of the ‘good’ data message…

sloppy, lazy…

because the error calls out an ‘unexpected non-whitepace’ (a colon maybe) , I suspect this api is one of these

[MajorC]

@sdetweil so I have to use an other weather provider? I really like Yr. They are very precise for Europe.

[sdetweil]

@MajorC not what I said… its broken as you are using it, but I don’t know why. I am not the provider author… you can post an issue to the MM github page…

[karsten13]

@sdetweil

see https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues/3189

yr has changed api, the fix comes with next release on Oct.