MMM-forecast-io -- Localized up to the minute weather

[phrazelle]

Hello! Thanks for your time with this module!

I would like to customize the weather icons. I am able to change the overall color of the icons with CSS, but taking that a step further, is there a way to alter sections of the icons instead of the icon as a whole?

I.e. wi-day-cloudy with an orange sun poking out from a grey cloud.

I see that the icons are pulled from the erikflowers github repository, but I don’t see where they are pulling from within the module. Based on most of these weather modules using the same iconset, I’m guessing they’re being pulled from that repo directly.

My initial thought was to extract from the module, recolor with Photoshop and then replace the icons in the module. Is that possible? Would I just make a whole new set, store locally and change the path somewhere in the JS?

[strawberry 3.141]

@phrazelle the css is located in the magicmirror vendor folder

[phrazelle]

@strawberry-3.141 Thanks for the info!

After looking through there, it looks like the module pulls the icons as a font file. I believe that would mean that CCS customization would be overall to each displayed character. So there would be no way to color segments of each character (like an orange sun poking out from a grey cloud) because the stylization would apply to the character as a whole.

Am I assessing at that correctly?

[ooom416354]

Great module!! One question, is there anyway to make the length of the temperature bars a bit smaller? I suppose because the NY weather is so erratic right now it is making the bars wider but was just curious if I can shrink them a bit to save some space. thanks!

[ooom416354]

also it could just be me but I keep seeing the rain icon next to the temperature even though there’s no rain in the forecast for today (the small icon by the days of the week shows nothing but sun). Anything I can do to check that icon to see if it is an issue?

[bminer1]

Im getting the below when i try to install:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules $ git pull https://github.com/dmcinnes/MMM-forecast-io.git
From https://github.com/dmcinnes/MMM-forecast-io
 * branch            HEAD       -> FETCH_HEAD

*** Please tell me who you are.

Run

  git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
  git config --global user.name "Your Name"

to set your account's default identity.
Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.

fatal: empty ident name (for <pi@raspberrypi.(none)>) not allowed
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules $ 

How do i fix this in order to install?

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[morozgrafix]

@bminer1 it seems that you are trying to pull instead of clone (and git is not globally configured on your system and doesn’t recognize you)

try running this command instead: git clone https://github.com/dmcinnes/MMM-forecast-io.git

[bminer1]

noob mistake. Installed now. Thanks!!
I feel like an idiot. This machine will not beat me!!

[bminer1]

I’m not getting any graph for precipitation. Will it only be there if there is rain/snow in the next x amount of hours?

[morozgrafix]

@bminer1 I believe that default setting is not to show precipitation graph, unless there is a prediction for rain or snow in next hour. I think it takes data from minutely weather forecast supplied by DarkSky.