MMM-OpenWeatherForecast

wishmaster270

@sdetweil In default the module calls the Api every 10 minutes.

sdetweil

@wishmaster270 thanks. i knew i could go look, asking poster to do the same.

Ray

@wishmaster270 yes I have mine set for 15
but that doesn’t explain why when I turn it on for the first time in the morning they already have 20 calls I don’t get that

Ray

@sdetweil I have it set for 15 minutes

MarcLandis

@Ray said in MMM-OpenWeatherForecast:

@wishmaster270 yes I have mine set for 15
but that doesn’t explain why when I turn it on for the first time in the morning they already have 20 calls I don’t get that

What means “turn it on”? Boot up the Pi or turn on the screen?

Ray

@MarcLandis sorry for the misunderstanding there
when I activate my mirror and it checks the weather

MarcLandis

@Ray updates are still done even the screen is off.

Ray

@MarcLandis yes I get that and I totally understand that

but that’s not my question maybe it can’t be answered
my magic mirror is on a computer when I boot the computer up in the morning it will automatically start magic mirror usually the first thing it checks is the weather
if I turn the computer off there should be no more calls to the weather app

so my original question would be if I turn my computer on first thing in the morning and I go to the weather app why does it say I already have 20 calls that’s my real question

wishmaster270

@Ray
Hi, I do not know your set up nor do I know when the “in one day” changes to the next day at OpenWeaterMap.
I use the API Key exactly in this module and only have one instance of the mirror running…
I just checked my statistics at OpenWeaterMap and I do have at about 112 calls a day. Which is correct as my mirror is shutdown between 11:30pm and 5am.

Maybe it is a matter of your timezone and calls of the last day are counted in the current one.

What does your statistic look like

https://home.openweathermap.org/statistics/onecall_30

Edit:
And one small side note. Even if you use different keys the calls a summarized per account

Ray

@wishmaster270
I totally agree with everything you said I do have two keys but I only use one
the only thing I can think of is maybe the 20 calls are a carryover from the previous day that’s the only thing I can think of
I shut down my mirror around 7 o’clock at night

and when I started up in the morning around 8 o’clock in the morning I would think there would only be one call
but when I looked it said there were 20
so like I said maybe it’s a carryover from the previous day

so tomorrow morning I’m going to conduct a test
I will check the website first to see if there any calls there before I start my mirror

if you want I will let you know