Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Weatherunderground - currently - hourly - daily - configurable
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@RedNax Glad to hear I could add some thoughts to the project, love your module!
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Quick question. Today I updated my mirror to version 2.0.4 via git pull. Afterwards the umbrella weather icon didn’t work any more as @MichMich has updated the weather font. Is this expected behavior or am I simply not getting another step I should take after updating? I have now manually copied the old files into the vendor/weather-icons folder and now it’s working again, but I suspect this is not what I should be doing ^^.
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Actually the weatherfont update in 2.0.4 is actually my doing… Should nstill work as expected when you’ve pulled the latest Wunderground module… You could also switch to the one in the development branch which takes advantage of having the weathericons now being part of the main framework.
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@RedNax Alright, thanks for the information. I have meddled so much with your code that a fresh pull would reverse all my customizations. But I’ll have a look at the development branch to get the weather module to pull the icons from its own folder.
Could you explain to me why the new weather fonts include fewer icon definitions?
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@yo-less Do they? They’re taken straight from http://weathericons.io/ which isn’t under my control. What’s missing?
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@RedNax No, it seems they don’t, sorry. I just rechecked and the wi-umbrella definition is there. Strangely, though, when I performed a “git pull” in the MM main folder, my umbrellas in the Weather Underground module disappeared and I had to manually overwrite the css file in the vendor folder with the older version. I must have made some other changes to the folder prior to that, because in the github repository everything seems to be fine.
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@yo-less Did you also pull the MM 2.0.4 main framework? That’s where the icons went… Then again, when you did heavy modding… ;) Care to share screenshots of your version?
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@RedNax I went to my home/pi/MagicMirror folder and typed in “git pull”, which is when it updated. If there is an additional step to update the main framework, please let me know.
Sure, the adjustments I have made so far are mostly based around the idea that information should only be presented if it is relevant (or actually existent at all)
- Only show precipitation if the probability for rain and the expected precipitation is above 0 % / mm
- Only show the umbrella icon if there is a day with precipitation in the forecast table
- Only show windspeed if it is above 0 kph.
- I’ve removed the windspeed icon and changed it to a text line like this: 12 km/h + wind direction icon
- In the forecast table the forecast temperature for any given day is shown until sunrise of that day (As I have the hourly forecasts I don’t really need the forecast for the day after sunrise, so generally I have my forecast table start the day after today - In the time between midnight and sunrise, this isn’t all that great though as it means that I only see the forecast until, say 10am, shortly after midnight)
- I’ve added some spaces to unclutter the layout
- I’ve changed the short version of the days to all caps
Here’s a screenshot of my layout:
What I’m planning to add:
- 7am temperature in the forecast table
Here’s why: Where I live it can sometimes get pretty cold in the morning, but within hours it’s humid and hot and sometimes it gets cold later in the evening so a simple quote of the daily high and low doesn’t really represent the days all that well. And if you know that it’s mild in the morning and hot in the afternoon you can dress differently than when it’s cold in the morning and then hot for the rest of the day. Not sure if that is all too helpful for others out there ^^.
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@yo-less Your changes look great, would it be possible to provide the code?
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@alihallo Sure, just contact me and I can provide you with my modifications.
