MMM-OpenWeatherForecast

[Ray]

@wishmaster270
so I found out what was going on with the calls being counted when my magic mirror wasn’t even up and running

so here’s what I found out
I have MMM-OpenWeatherForecast checking the temperature in two time zones
and one of the time zone I have set requestDelay: 250
this was done before the upgrade to 3.0 call abb
since then I have deleted one of the time zones
but forgot to delete requestDelay: 250 an error in my part

it turns out that the One Call API 3.0 was counting all the calls in that 250
in version 2.5 we didn’t have to worry about that

[sdetweil]

@Ray yes, a call is a call. 250 is WAY TOO OFTEN for weather that doesn’t changed but every 10-15 minutes

[Ray]

@sdetweil
I just thought I’d throw it out there in case someone else runs into the same problem

[JohnGalt]

@Ray – Just for the sake of completeness for you or others I will mention here that the provider will count ALL calls, from ALL modules.

As an example I can have this module running for a comprehensive look at my local weather, plus an instance of the default weather module telling me what’s happening with a friend or relatives, plus I’m running MMM-DynamicWeather.

The API will count all the calls from all sources. It would be great if the MM system could pull the data and broadcast it to modules as needed, but that’s not how it works.

[sdetweil]

@JohnGalt the default weather broadcasts it’s data just like calendar does

So the othermodules could use it

[wishmaster270]

Just to make clear.
The requestDelay is only used for the time between the start of the mirror and the first fetch of the data.
For all following the updateInterval in seconds is used.

The module sends is weather info, too. But I think both modules are not capable of use the info provided by notification at the moment

[butchkemper]

@JohnGalt

The api call daily threshold for billing is 1,000. The default setting is to update every 10 minutes and that equals to 144 daily calls.

Butch

[hrjmsh]

@OldGuyBerlin Worked for me, thanks.

[chris1971]

I had the same problem with my weather forecast. I made a subscription for an API 3.0 key and modified the config in this way:

{
		module: "MMM-OpenWeatherForecast",
		position: "top_right",
		header: "Wetter in Mülheim",
		config: {
        apiBaseURL: "https://api.openweathermap.org/data/3.0/onecall?",
        apikey: "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx", //only string here
      latitude: 51.xxxxxxxx,            //number works here
      longitude: 6.9xxxxxxxx,          //so does a string
      updateInterval: 45,
	iconset: "3c",
	maxDailiesToShow: 4,
	maxHourliesToShow: 4,
	label_hourlyTimeFormat: "k[ Uhr]",
	label_sunriseTimeFormat: "k:mm",  // change the format for this one 
	label_days: ["So", "Mo", "Di", "Mi", "Do", "Fr", "Sa"]

In addition I added “https://api.openweathermap.org/data/3.0/onecall?” as mentioned by @Ray in the node_helper.js in the weather module. The update intervall is 45 minutes - which means below 1000 calls per month
The module is running again!!!

Thx to this community and forum,
Chris

[htilburgs]

What if you don’t have a creditcard like me??