MMM-ISS

[emlowe]

I have an inexpensive Astromaster LT80 AZ - but the cheap tripod mount really is difficult to. Been wanting to upgrade, but haven’t managed to yet.

[Mykle1]

@emlowe

Cool. I have an Astromaster 114 and a Meade Infinity. They are just enough to enjoy some casual viewing from the backyard. Like you, I want better but . . .

[E3V3A]

@Mykle1 Hi. I just sent you a PR fixing some space/TAB issues, please feel free to merge.

[E3V3A]

Any idea why the rise times from the open API is 20 min off from that provided by the spot-the-station?

[Mykle1]

@E3V3A

One of them is wrong? ;-)

[E3V3A]

@Mykle1 Have you seen this too?
Another thing, it seem that there are only night events tracked… Is that correct?

[Mykle1]

@E3V3A

Perhaps because the ISS is only visible during the transition between day and night, night and day

[Mykle1]

https://github.com/mykle1/MMM-ISS-Live may interest some people

[Mykle1]

Spectacular video screenshot of MMM-ISS-Live. Picture this (pun) as a live video stream.

[mrdenmark]

is anyone else having problems with this module?i’m getting the following error-
Error Found
The Spot The Station widget has encountered a problem. If you are the website curator please visit our widget page for a new version of the embed code.

Visit the Spot The Station website to see when the International Space Station will be flying over you.

[chassain 0]

@mrdenmark said in MMM-ISS:

is anyone else having problems with this module?i’m getting the following error-
Error Found
The Spot The Station widget has encountered a problem. If you are the website curator please visit our widget page for a new version of the embed code.

Visit the Spot The Station website to see when the International Space Station will be flying over you.

Hello,

I had an error…i live in france…resolved when i put region state: “none”.

[Mykle1]

@mrdenmark said in MMM-ISS:

The Spot The Station widget has encountered a problem. If you are the website curator please visit our widget page for a new version of the embed code.

@chassain 0

had an error…i live in france…resolved when i put region state: “none”.

This usually happens when there is an error in the config.js entry for this module. country, regionState and city options cannot contain spaces. It is stated in the example config of the repo. This is most common mistake.

Please post your config entry in a code block.

Module is working as expected.

[Mykle1]

@chassain-0 said in MMM-ISS:

I had an error…i live in france…resolved when i put region state: “none”.

You are absolutely right, sir. The module/widget does accept “None” in the regionState: config option and fixes that issue rather nicely. This is the first I’ve heard of that problem. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. And thanks for the solution. I went to the url and confirmed.

[mrdenmark]

problem solved-it was the none required in state!thanks for the assistance

[Mykle1]

Download:

[card:mykle1/MMM-ISS]

Update to Version 1.0.1

Updated module and fixed config so that underscores are no longer necessary in config options country, regionState and city.

Also, when regionState is not necessary for your location (Ex. Toulon, France), simply leave regionState blank.

disabled: false,
module: 'MMM-ISS',
position: 'middle_center',
config: {
    country: "United States",
    regionState: "New York",       // Outside USA may not need regionState. If so, leave blank "".
    city: "New York",
...

disabled: false,
module: 'MMM-ISS',
position: 'middle_center',
config: {
    country: "France",
    regionState: "",       // Outside USA may not need regionState. If so, leave blank "".
    city: "Toulon",
...

[chassain 0]

Perfect !

[Mykle1]

In case anyone would like to use this module for multiple locations, simply add another config entry.

[mrdenmark]

would it be possible to restrict the times it updates? say once an hour during the day and every 30 seconds when sightings are possible?

[Mykle1]

@mrdenmark

The default updateInterval is 5 * 60 * 1000 (5 minutes). You can adjust this in your config. As the module only displays the next flyover, setting the updateInterval to 30 seconds would not change the information being displayed by the module. With that, I have no plans to make those changes but you are free to fork the module and make any changes you like.

[mrdenmark]

any ideas why the iss module has started displaying like this?-!
both modules are in lower_third but the same thing happens wherever i move them, if i move iss to bottom_left for instance it will overlap the news feed in bottom_bar