Weather forecast only displays 'invalid date'

Canterrain · Jul 5, 2018, 2:47 PM

Update
This issue is solved in v2.4.1.
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/7548/v2-4-0-update/2

===Begin original post===
This started happening after updating my MM recently and adding the motion detection module (https://github.com/alexyak/motiondetector), but not sure if either are related.

Every time the mirror starts up (even if I use pm2 to restart, or unplug and full reboot), my weather forecast just shows the words invalid date).

This had been working for well over a year. The only change to config I made was to add the new module. But I ran the config checker and it says I have no syntax errors.

I can see one other person opened this as an issue after updating, but they never provided logs or anything and thus it was closed.

https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues/1292

I’ve generated logs starting at a pm2 restart, and I see no issues flagged:



mm-0 Starting MagicMirror: v2.4.0-dev
mm-0 Loading config ...
mm-0 Loading module helpers ...
mm-0 No helper found for module: alert.
mm-0 Initializing new module helper ...
mm-0 Module helper loaded: MMM-Motion-Detection
mm-0 No helper found for module: clock.
mm-0 No helper found for module: MMM-Nest.
mm-0 Initializing new module helper ...
mm-0 Module helper loaded: calendar
mm-0 No helper found for module: currentweather.
mm-0 No helper found for module: weatherforecast.
mm-0 Initializing new module helper ...
mm-0 Module helper loaded: newsfeed
mm-0 All module helpers loaded.
mm-0 Starting server on port 8080 ...
mm-0 Server started ...
mm-0 Connecting socket for: MMM-Motion-Detection
mm-0 Starting module helper: MMM-Motion-Detection
mm-0 Connecting socket for: calendar
mm-0 Starting node helper for: calendar
mm-0 Connecting socket for: newsfeed
mm-0 Starting module: newsfeed
mm-0 Sockets connected & modules started ...
mm-0 Launching application.
mm-0 Create new calendar fetcher for url: h
mm-0 Create new news fetcher for url: http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index/ - Interval: 300000
mm-0 Create new news fetcher for url: http://www.npr.org/rss/rss.php?id=1001 - Interval: 300000
mm-0 [MMM-Motion-Detection] Motion Detection started...
mm-0 [MMM-Motion-Detection] --------------------
mm-0 [MMM-Motion-Detection] Webcam starting...
mm-0 [MMM-Motion-Detection] motion detected
mm-0 Starting MagicMirror: v2.4.0-dev
mm-0 Loading config ...
mm-0 Loading module helpers ...
mm-0 No helper found for module: alert.
mm-0 Initializing new module helper ...
mm-0 Module helper loaded: MMM-Motion-Detection
mm-0 No helper found for module: clock.
mm-0 No helper found for module: MMM-Nest.
mm-0 Initializing new module helper ...
mm-0 Module helper loaded: calendar
mm-0 No helper found for module: currentweather.
mm-0 No helper found for module: weatherforecast.
mm-0 Initializing new module helper ...
mm-0 Module helper loaded: newsfeed
mm-0 All module helpers loaded.
mm-0 Starting server on port 8080 ...
mm-0 Server started ...
mm-0 Connecting socket for: MMM-Motion-Detection
mm-0 Starting module helper: MMM-Motion-Detection
mm-0 Connecting socket for: calendar
mm-0 Starting node helper for: calendar
mm-0 Connecting socket for: newsfeed
mm-0 Starting module: newsfeed
mm-0 Sockets connected & modules started ...
mm-0 Launching application.
mm-0 Create new news fetcher for url: http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index/ - Interval: 300000
mm-0 Create new news fetcher for url: http://www.npr.org/rss/rss.php?id=1001 - Interval: 300000
mm-0 [MMM-Motion-Detection] Motion Detection started...
mm-0 [MMM-Motion-Detection] --------------------
mm-0 [MMM-Motion-Detection] Webcam starting...
mm-0 [MMM-Motion-Detection] motion detected

The only editing I did was to take out the calendar URL from the posted log. Anyone else seen this or have any ideas?

justjim1220 · Jun 25, 2018, 10:31 PM

might be easier to help if you could post your config.js. But please hide any personal info before posting it.

Canterrain · Jun 26, 2018, 3:53 AM

Sure, I can post that. The config checker doesn’t find any issues. Any help appreciated.

/* Magic Mirror Config Sample
 *
 * By Michael Teeuw http://michaelteeuw.nl
 * MIT Licensed.
 */

var config = {
	port: 8080,

	language: 'en',
	timeFormat: 12,
	units: 'imperial',

	modules: [
		{
			module: 'alert',
		},
		{
			module: 'MMM-Motion-Detection',
		},
		{
			module: 'clock',
			position: 'top_left'
		},
		{
			module: 'MMM-Nest',
			position: 'bottom_right',
			config: {
				token:"xxx"
			}
		},
		{
			module: 'calendar',
			header: 'Calendar',
			position: 'top_left',
			config: {
				calendars: [
					{
						symbol: 'calendar-check-o ',
						url: 'xxx'
					}


				]
			}
		},
		
		{
			module: 'currentweather',
			position: 'top_right',
			config: {
				location: 'xxx',
				locationID: 'xxx',  //ID from http://www.openweathermap.org
				appid: 'xxx'
			}
		},
		{
			module: 'weatherforecast',
			position: 'top_right',
			header: 'Weather Forecast',
			config: {
	            location: 'xxx',
				locationID: 'xxx',  //ID from http://www.openweathermap.org
	            appid: 'xxx'
			}
		},
		{
			module: 'newsfeed',
			position: 'bottom_bar',
			config: {
				feeds: [
					{
						title: "ArsTechnica",
						url: "http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index/",
					},
					{
						title: "NPR",
						url: "http://www.npr.org/rss/rss.php?id=1001"
					}
				],
				showSourceTitle: true,
				showPublishDate: true
			}
		},
	]

};

/*************** DO NOT EDIT THE LINE BELOW ***************/
if (typeof module !== 'undefined') {module.exports = config;}

justjim1220 · Jun 26, 2018, 8:56 PM

@canterrain

2 things to try…

try putting a comma after the motion detection module

module: ‘MMM-Motion-Detection’,

Canterrain · Jun 27, 2018, 4:18 AM

No luck adding the comma unfortunately.

You mentioned 2 things to try, what was the second?

Thanks for looking at this.

yawns · Jun 27, 2018, 10:00 AM

appid in currentweather module is missing a ’

Time and date on your raspberry are fine, right?

justjim1220 · Jun 27, 2018, 8:29 PM

@canterrain

Not sure how I missed that… weird, I swear I put it in there…

Check the time and date of your devices…

Canterrain · Jun 27, 2018, 10:54 PM

Thanks for the helpful suggestions.

Date and time are correct on my pi, and the mirror even shows the right date and time.

The config did have the missing ’ in current weather, I apparently accidentally deleted it when I was removing personal info. I edited the above to reflect the current status of my config file.

This was working fine before. About the time I updated the mirror to latest version and added the motion detection module. But it didn’t happen immediately after those events. It was a few days later. I did find a logged issue (that was closed) describing the same thing, after updating the mirror.

Bob · Jul 3, 2018, 5:46 AM

I’m having the same issue as @Canterrain

Snipp from Clock and Weather modules are below

 // Clock
		{
			module: "clock",
			position: "top_center",
			config: {
				displayType: "digital",
				displaySeconds: false,
				showPeriod: true,
				showPeriodUpper: false,
				clockBold: false,
				showDate: true,
				showWeek: false,
				dateFormat : "dddd, MMMM Do YYYY",
			},
		},

// Calendar// Weather - ID from http://www.openweathermap.org/help/city_list.txt
		{
			module: "weatherforecast",
			position: "top_left",
			header: "7 Day Forecast for ",
			config: {
				fade: false,
				maxNumberOfDays: 7,
				showRainAmount: true,
				colored: true,
				locationID: "2655603",
				appid: "xxx"
			},
		},

Issue only occurred once I did an update to the MM system to v.2.4.0

Richard238 · Jul 2, 2018, 2:03 PM

Same issue here