NOAA Tide Chart for Today, Tomorrow, and Next Day

[jyossarian]

Extreme noob here so be gentle.

First, crice009 has created a module to pull NOAA tide data from a specific monitoring station and graph predicted vs actual data. I’m looking for something a little different. I’d like to see a simple chart consisting of the tide times and heights for three days pulled every night. Should I create a new module or fork off of crice009’s.

I am reading the MM module building documentation but a LOT is going over my head.

Reading some other posts, I got the idea to ask chatgpt to write the code I think I want. Tell me what you think.

const axios = require('axios');
const moment = require('moment');

// Function to fetch tide data for a specific date
async function fetchTideData(date) {
  try {
    const response = await axios.get('https://api.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/api/prod/datagetter', {
      params: {
        begin_date: date.format('YYYYMMDD'),
        end_date: date.format('YYYYMMDD'),
        station: '8722670',      // NOAA station ID for Port of West Palm Beach
        product: 'predictions',
        datum: 'MLLW',
        units: 'english',
        time_zone: 'lst_ldt',
        format: 'json',
      }
    });
    return response.data.predictions;
  } catch (error) {
    console.error('Error fetching tide data:', error);
    return [];
  }
}

// Function to display tide data for a specific date
function displayTideData(date, tideData) {
  console.log(`High and Low Tides for Port of West Palm Beach (Date: ${date.format('YYYY-MM-DD')})`);
  console.log('--------------------------------------------------');
  console.log('| Time        | Type    | Height (feet) |');
  console.log('--------------------------------------------------');
  tideData.forEach(tide => {
    console.log(`| ${tide.t} | ${tide.type}   | ${tide.v}            |`);
  });
  console.log('--------------------------------------------------');
}

// Function to fetch and display tide data for today, tomorrow, and the following day
async function fetchAndDisplayTideData() {
  const today = moment();
  for (let i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
    const date = today.clone().add(i, 'days');
    const tideData = await fetchTideData(date);
    displayTideData(date, tideData);
  }
}

// Main function to execute the program
async function main() {
  await fetchAndDisplayTideData();
}

// Run the main function
main();

[sdetweil]

@jyossarian the chatgpt info is really useless as it’s a program and not in module form.

a module collects data (axios in the chatgpt stuff), and builds a html div with the desired content in the getDom() function and returns that to MagicMirror

sounds like you want an html table in the div. I don’t know what data the existing module collects.

[cyberphox]

where is this Tide module? don’t see it anywhere?

[sdetweil]

@cyberphox
https://github.com/crice009/MMM-NOAATides
lookup user on github and then look thru their repos

[cyberphox]

@sdetweil Thank you!

edit - darn nothing for east coast of Canada!

[jyossarian]

So if chatgpt cannot write my code, I’m SOL?

Can you think of any existing modules that can be edited (like weather) to get the desired result?

[sdetweil]

@jyossarian there are hundreds of modules that can be used. but none of it is simple.