New module: Weather effects

[uros76]

I just inspected the pm2 log and under the latest entries I can’t see anything about weather module broadcasting notifications.
Do I need to looks somewhere else?

[sdetweil]

@uros76 weather is done all in browser, so no messages would appear in the pm2 log

you could install MMM-Notifications which has a window showing those events

[cgillinger]

I dont think PM2 shows module-specific broadcasts unless explicitly logged, but Im no expert. Maybe @sdetweil knows?

To test it I just bascially found locations with rain or snow, and set that in config.js.

[sdetweil]

@cgillinger correct. notifications are not logged

1 they are in browser
2 if the sending or receiving module does not console.log() a message there is nothing to see

you can install MMM-Logging which will capture the browser console and merge it with the npm start output

or install MMM-Notifications which will display them in a window on the MagicMirror screen

[mmmallday]

@cgillinger Very cool well done

[uros76]

@cgillinger duh, why didn’t I think of setting to a city where it rains LOL. I picked a random rainy city and presto, it works! Tnx again for this module.

@sdetweil thanks. I installed the MMM-Logging and checked the npm start console for any hint of notifications coming through but I can’t see anything related to notifications being broadcasted. I am probably missing something obvious again :(
And I can’t seem to find the MMM-Notifications location. Do you perhaps have a link to it?
I did thind this one but it doesn’t show anything https://github.com/glitch452/MMM-ViewNotifications

[sdetweil]

@uros76 yes, it was https://github.com/glitch452/MMM-ViewNotifications

it shows for me

[cgillinger]

And I just want to add here that I’m running it on a Raspberry Pi with a 7-inch screen, so there’s not much screen space to work with. I don’t have room for the weather module with the ‘current’ option as well. However, after testing, it seems to work perfectly fine to keep the module ‘hidden’ by simply omitting a location in the config.js file

I’m considering making the rain direction controlled by the wind direction from the Weather module. If it’s possible, it would look pretty neat.

[sdetweil]

@cgillinger yes, commenting out the psosition still allows the module to work in the background…
also do this for calendar with Ext3 family of modules

[sdetweil]

@uros76 said in New module: Weather effects:

I installed the MMM-Logging and checked the npm start console for any hint of notifications coming through

yes, if they don’t print a console message then its not in the the log for logging to forward…