Time and Weather problems

[Vaughn]

Hi. Just joined and first MagicMirrir project.

Got all working and changed a few things needed, Now have My Calendar, BBC World News, but time and weather not working as needed.

With the time and date, it shows the time as:

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

11:55

with the code

{

module: “clock”,

position: “top_left”

},

I want the more UK display

Wednesday, 05 August, 2020

11:55

I tried adding a config { }, with the code using moment(“DD,MM,YYYY” ), but this just crashed the system, if out of the config {}, it still crashes.

Never used this system before so very new.

As for date. I added the module:

{
module: “MMM-3Day-Forecast”,
position: “top_right”,
header: “3 Day Weather”,
config: {
location: “Ipswich”,
locationID: “Ipswich,uk”, //ID from http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/city.list.json.gz; unzip the gz file and find your city
appid: “**************************************”,
//api_key: “**********************************”,
lat: 52.062569,
long: 1.233907,
units: “M”,
lang: “en”,
interval: 900000,
}

It says its loading, but never displays, so almost working.

I’m thinking here the location may be wrong. I took the coordinates from google maps.

Not sure how to fix either of these, please, if you can, point me in the correct direction.

Many thanks Vaughn

[sdetweil]

@Vaughn for clock,
according to the doc,
you add a field to config called

dateFormat: "???",

where ??? follows the doc link here
https://docs.magicmirror.builders/modules/clock.html#configuration-options

u did follow all the instruction on the weather module, right? I don’t see any of the location stuff it the module doc
https://github.com/nigel-daniels/MMM-3Day-Forecast

[Vaughn]

sdetweil

Ok so I did read this config notes, but did not work. Just had another go.

with my code, for the clock, as so:

{
module: “clock”,
position: “top_left”
//config: {
//timeFormat: “12”, //“dddd, LL”, //“DD/MM/YYYY”,
//showDate: false,
//}
},
All works fine, only date in wrong format. Uncomenting the config, even if left blank inside, the mirror crashes.

What am I missing please?

thanks Vaughn

[Vaughn]

Sorry, did have the dateFormat in there, only as that didn’t work, looked at the timeFormate, to see if I could prove the concept.

Thanks again Vaughn

[sdetweil]

@Vaughn said in Time and Weather problems:

position: “top_left” < -------- missing comma
//config: {

general rules, each line needs to end with a comma (more coming) if there is another named line after it
if the thing after “:” is a number or true/false, no quotes, else quotes (doesn’t matter which kind, single or double as long as they are matched )

module: 'clock",
position: ‘top_left’, // < ------
config: {
dateFormat: " ??? " // some string
}
}

[sdetweil]

@Vaughn said in Time and Weather problems:

Wednesday, 05 August, 2020

following the clock doc link for dateFormat
Possible values: Docs -> https://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/format/

“dddd - day of week
D - day of month
MMMM - month of year in text
YYYY” year, numeric

“dddd, D MMMM, YYYY”

[Vaughn]

FAB :-)

YES missed the comma at the top, after position, only excuses was I was hacking, so added a line and then did not know the one above needed the comma.

Huge thanks

Now onto the Weather.

Last post said there was no position included. I thought that was the Log/Lat?

I know other parts use a position code, I hoped this would be overwritten as I was including the coordinates, as i cannot find any way to read the ‘city.list.json.gz’ file as I am told in many parts this is where to find the location code.

Nothing I have opens this, any ideas please.

Thanks again Vaughn

[sdetweil]

@Vaughn I meant the module doesn’t use location codes only lat/lon, so u don’t need to read that file.

if u are on the pi, gz means zipped, so the gzip command would unzip it.

a Google search for what file type is gz would have got u this info.

[sdetweil]

@Vaughn can u clarify what the problem was with the dateFormat? seemed pretty easy from the doc

[Vaughn]

YES, as I have now fixed it. The MMM uses the api_key, where as the original forecast code used, appid. Sooo wrong syntax.

Now working great.

Many thanks to all for the help. Please how can I show this is sorted, noticed some of your posts show this.

thanks Vaughn