MMM-RAIN-MAP (new: version 2.x)

karsten13

this is the current rain situation and I don’t understand the differences, first picture your module, second one https://www.wetteronline.de/regenradar .

And the second one is reality …

Jalibu

@karsten13 Unfortunately, I can’t tell you that. I am only responsible for the display layer, not for the weather data :-)
The radar layers come from the Rainviewer API, which I have actually had quite good experiences with in the past.
Is it the usual case on your mirror that the displayed radar images do not match the reality?

What I can see is that RegenRadar.de and RainViewer have different scales. With RainViewer it needs a much higher degree of cloudiness to be displayed on the map.

karsten13

@jalibu

Unfortunately, I can’t tell you that. I am only responsible for the display layer, not for the weather data 🙂

I’m aware of this …

Is it the usual case on your mirror that the displayed radar images do not match the reality?

saw such differences this week the first time

What I can see is that RegenRadar.de and RainViewer have different scales. With RainViewer it needs a much higher degree of cloudiness to be displayed on the map.

will oberve this but the differences are heavy and AFAIS not only explainable with the different scales. Meanwhile I was already asking myself if the rain layer is showing a total different location …

Jalibu

@karsten13 let me know your findings

Jalibu

A few days ago, Openstreepmap obviously made some changes with their tile servers. They seem to block requests now, when the requests come from Electron applications. This is the case in most MagicMirror installations. As a consequence, MMM-RAIN-MAP does not show map tiles anymore.
I suspect, that also other modules are effected.
One possible fix is using another tile server for MMM-RAIN-MAP. One that still works at the moment, is the German fork “https://a.tile.openstreetmap.de/${z}/${x}/${y}.png”.
I will adjust the module soon, to use this tile server as a default.
You can also change the tile server by setting this property in the module config:

{
  mapUrl: "https://a.tile.openstreetmap.de/${z}/${x}/${y}.png"
}

trlynch

@jalibu
Woohoo!!
Thank you for posting this change. I was going nuts trying to figure out why my radar map became a white background.

Bummer the .org site is blocking connections.

I’m curious, is there a way to make the radar images more transparent? Here in Ohio we get a lot of deep greens and blues so they hide the map entirely.

Jalibu

the german tileserver fork is default now

pminich

@Jalibu I am getting a message that MMM-RAIN-MAP is 2 commits behind but I can’t see to update it. I have run NPM Update from inside the directory to no result. Is there a different process?

Thanks

sdetweil

@pminich did u do the git pull in the module directory to get the latest code?

pminich

@sdetweil All set, thanks. Still learning my way around npm, git, etc…