Strange weather bug?

kanczug

My mirror seems to lag a few hours (still have to check how many) in updating the weather or only forecast (don’t know). Today is Saturday 6:37 in the morning where I live, but I still see Friday weather forecast. When I will come back from work it probably will show Sat as the first day in forecast. If I restart the mirror it works OK till next day comes at it lags again. Anyone noticed it? How can I check for errors? I did not change anything apart from config data.

KirAsh4

Is your rpi setup for the correct timezone and locale? Please check the Complete Setup Tutorial, specifically the part on Booting up and Configuring.

kanczug

Well time and date is displayed perfectly so I think the rest would be in order, right?

KirAsh4

Not necessarily.

kanczug

OK. I installed MM once again this time at spare RPi 3 (my main mirror is running on RPi2). Have both running exact the same config, will see if that clears anything.
How often is the weather data updated?

kanczug

OK, I have one stupid (?) question… does the api key for openweather has to be different for forecast and different for current weather?

Wilco89

@kanczug i’m using the same api key.

KirAsh4

Use the same key.

kanczug

I tried using the same or different APIs but it seems that the mirror is not updating the data from the openweathermap as often as it should. Sometimes it updates only forecast but current temp stays the same all day. When I close and start MM again it all loads OK but it can not update on its own very often. Can not say how often, because I can not see any error messages in logs. The same happends on RPi 3 and my old RPi 2 running borh at the same time. One has current temp of 12 degrees and the other says 25. But when I restart them they display 27. So none is right. Can someone suggest anything? It is not the timezone problem, because after restart it shows everything OK, it is not the lack of internet connection, because calendar syncs OK.

Nexxic

I’m having the same problem. Sometimes the current weather doesn’t update (or it updates very rarely), but it works when i restart with ‘pm restart mm’.

kanczug

Thanks for that info. This confirms my observations. I used cron to schedule RPi restart 2 times a day, so there is a chance for it to refresh properly at least twice.

KirAsh4

The only time I have seen my rpi not update either of the weather stats was if there was a communication error at any given request, however it always picked up at the next update. So this is a bit baffling to me … have either of you guys notice any errors anywhere, whether in npm, pm2, or the console?

kanczug

PM2 nope but others I do not know how to check. Any guide would be nice. I am a noob at this

kckndrgn

I’m having the same issue. Total NOOB here as I just installed MM last night. Got up this morning and noticed the current weather is correct, but the forecast still starts at yesterday.

I’ve restarted MM via PM2 several times for other updates, I have not done a reboot of the Pi (Pi3) yet to see if that resolves the issue. I do have the locale and timezone set correctly.

The current date and time show correctly above my calendar.

Tried running ‘pm2 log mm’ but so far it’s just sitting there with no output.

I’m using the default weather apps, may try switching to WU apps to see if I have the same issue.

TIA

OK, so in my config.js file, for location, I had my current city/state. I changed it “Memphis, US” (closest “big” city) and retarted MM2. The forecast module updated. So, so just a thought, make sure the site you are pulling the forecast from has the correct city/state/country?

A Former User

I’m joining the club in having the same issue with weather not updating. In my mirror it’s only the weather forecast that is updating. The current temperature is stale and have been so since I last restarted the mirror app.