MMM-aviationwx (Aviation weather)

stephenmelody

@Mykle1 I don’t know what’s going on with it, I’m not Linuxy enough to work out how to find the problem. It’s basically ok for a day and then I come down stairs in the morning and it’s unresponsive, no ping, ssh, anything on the screen so I have to pull the power.

I’m wondering if I’ve got it doing too much, it’s got MM, Alexa and Face recognition all going on. I’m also slightly suspect about the power supply to it being part of the issue.

If you have any hints of where I could start, please let me know… I don’t fancy rebuilding it from scratch… :(

Mykle1

@stephenmelody said in MMM-aviationwx (Aviation weather):

If you have any hints of where I could start, please let me know… I don’t fancy rebuilding it from scratch… :(

Well, 2.0 amps minimum on the power supply although I think 2.5 is optimum.

Hints? Well, suggestion.

Disable all but the default modules and run that for a day and see what happens. If all is well then introduce one at a time and test again. See how that goes for starters

XT16Johnny

@mkyle1 - Great job on the module, it looks superb. I’ll be adding it to my mirror very soon.

I understand you’re working on this on your own time, just a couple of config options for you if you’re in the mood to do anything more with the module ;-)

Most of Eur runs on KM for the viz. I wouldn’t have a clue what a Statue Mile looks like out of the window!
Typically winds reported at xxx degrees at yy kts and shorthand would be 260/05 rather than @.

I would be happy enough to change this on my mirror but a config option would be (far) too advanced for me to try and implement!

@stephenmelody - Ref the crashing:
First thing I’d do is check the power supply, RPi are really picky!
Check out the command ‘dmesg’ - very insightful for tracking down issues as it is timestamped. This will clear on reboot so it’d need to be checked before the crash.

If this is fruitless,

/var/log/messages
/var/log/syslog
/var/log/kern.log

Cheers lads,

Johnny

Mykle1

@XT16Johnny said in MMM-aviationwx (Aviation weather):

@mkyle1 - Great job on the module, it looks superb. I’ll be adding it to my mirror very soon.

Thanks, I appreciate that. I did it as a request from a user so forgive my lack of aviation understanding.

Typically winds reported at xxx degrees at yy kts and shorthand would be 260/05 rather than @.

That’s easy enough to fix. I’ll take care of that. Maybe even as soon as tonight.

As far as the Statute Mile/KM situation is concerned. The API only provides Statute Mile (SM) in the data. I didn’t do any conversions because I was going to move to another API that provided both, making it easier to give you a config option and a whole lot less coding for me. However, I will look at it again and see what it involves. Worst case scenario you’d have to wait for my moving to the other API but I can’t tell you when that would be. :-)

Mykle1

@XT16Johnny

Just in case others want the @ symbol as a separator between wind speed and direction I made it a config option.

sym: "@",  // or sym: "/",

Result:

So, for those interested, you can do a git pull in the MMM-PilotWX directory to update or download and install as usual.
https://github.com/mykle1/MMM-PilotWX

Mykle1

@XT16Johnny

I wouldn’t have a clue what a Statue Mile looks like out of the window!

cowboysdude

Can it do this? ¿

Mykle1

@cowboysdude said in MMM-aviationwx (Aviation weather):

Can it do this? ¿

HAHA :-)

cowboysdude

@Mykle1 IN PURPLE? BUT just on Fridays and Wednesdays…the other days I want it blue. Well unless the wind is blowing from the west then I need it hot pink or orange…no wait orange is for the days it’s blowing from the east at 2.2mph…

Can you do that? Thanks! LOL

Mykle1

@cowboysdude said in MMM-aviationwx (Aviation weather):

Can you do that? Thanks! LOL

I can, but I didn’t. ;-)

However, I did make a config option for Kilometers if you would rather that than Statute Miles for Visibility. :-)

So, for those interested, you can do another git pull in the MMM-PilotWX directory to update or download and install as usual.
https://github.com/mykle1/MMM-PilotWX

I don’t know what the standard for this type of display is but it seems to me that 260/6kt is easily readable, whereas 3KM for visibility is not. Would not 3/km be better? Or is that not what you pilots are used to? Please clarify. Thanks. :-)