MMM-aviationwx (Aviation weather)

Mykle1

I feel obliged to state that this module should only be used for entertainment purposes. Yes, the data is being pulled from the very same sites that you use ordinarily, but the thought of any of you relying on this module’s data for actual flights scares the shit out of me. Not that you would. You’re pilots. You’re smarter than that, I hope. :-)

How would that work anyway? You’re going to hang your mirror in the cockpit? :-)

That’ll be a $10.00 fee for Wi-Fi. :-)

Peace!

Mykle1

When did 3.3k people look at this topic? Crazy

Ok, so I’ve done the best I could with alignment of columns, considering there ARE no columns. At least the Flight Rules icon, the station, the wind direction and speed are relatively straight. I’m pretty much done with that. I hope it will suffice.

I’ve added a Station header and a Conditions header. Here they are underlined. They don’t have to be. I was just experimenting.

I’ve also added the most recent observation time to the end of each station’s conditions. This is converted from Zulu time to your local military time. Is this the way it should be?

Mykle1

Now I’ll add the most recent observation time to MMM-WISP for those that may want the rotating, bottom_bar version.

Done!

The updates have been pushed to Github although there is no documentation as of yet

Mykle1

@Mykle1

Merged both modules into one. Static or Rotating by config option

https://github.com/mykle1/MMM-PilotWX

stephenmelody

I’m planning on pulling this down at some point soon… just having some stability issues with my raspberry pi at the moment. It keeps crashing on me every 12-24 hours…

Mykle1

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

I’m planning on pulling this down at some point soon… just having some stability issues with my raspberry pi at the moment. It keeps crashing on me every 12-24 hours…

That sux. Are you getting any errors? It just freezes?

My Pi mirror has crashed only twice in 11 months and it was due to losing wifi (internet) from my provider. Even after wifi (internet) was restored the Pi still needed to be rebooted. Other than that, it has been rock solid.

I mention this because it might not be immediately apparent if the same thing were happening to you

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. :-)

cowboysdude

@Mykle1 Why Thanks!

320fan

@Mykle1 Hi again.

As I can see you continue to improve your mode - thats fine, thanks. Now I’ve some time for tests of this updated module. My points are:

No possibility to set custom number of airports for the “Static” view: for example, line like:

ICAO: "UUDD,UUWW,UUEE,UUOO,UWKD,URMT,ULLI,UWWW",  // separated by comma only

works fine (8 ICAO codes), but when I’m decrease/increase number of ICAO codes it doesn’t work: “Loading PilotWX…” and thats all.

My next proposal is to remove line “Station Conditions” for the Static view. It’s a little bit pointless ;)
For the “Rotating” view: the whole text alltime yellow. How I can change that?

3.1) For the “Rotating” view: pressure must be like xx.xx (not like xx as it is). In aircraft you must use all four digits for all the time. But for me - pressure in hectopascals (like 1019, without digits after comma) better in any case. Hovewer, in any case 1 hg = 33.863886666667 hPa. hg used for US airports at all the time, for EU/RU airports - hectopascals are the standard.
3.2) And the last one regarding pressure - it’s nice to have it for a “Standard” view too - it’s a really important information.

About time, which I can observe in the end of the line (tt:tt): I would ask you to display a UTC (Zulu) time, not a local time. So, thats the standard of METAR/TAF ;) In that case you display it like (ttttZ) or (tt:ttZ), and Zulu will be a remider for that.
Thanks for visibility in KM, thats very usefull. And to have a same view - please, change speed in knots as “KT”, not a “kt”.
For the “Loading PilotWX…” message - I would like to propose next code:

        if (!this.loaded) {
            wrapper.classList.add("wrapper");
//            wrapper.innerHTML = "Loading PilotWX . .";
//            wrapper.className = "bright light small";
              wrapper.innerHTML = (this.loaded) ? this.translate("EMPTY") : this.translate("LOADING");
              wrapper.className = "small dimmed";

            return wrapper;
        }

In that case this module will take into account locale settings for correct displaying of “Loading” message.

In case of no cloudbase layer classification (like "BKN/OVC/etc.) you may see a OVX text:

Thats not correct; the reply from server in that case is: sky_condition sky_cover=“OVX” cloud_base_ft_agl=“0”

The right way - to display data directly from a string, as example:
raw_text> URMT 071330Z 32006MPS 0650 0550NE R25/0800N +SHSN VV002 M01/M01 Q1010 R25/290255 NOSIG RMK QBB080 OBST OBSC QFE719 raw_text>

VV002 means vertical visibility in hundred of feets or QBB080 means vertical visibility in meters (this code not applicable for all airports).

And if case of aligment to the right:

               {
                        module: 'MMM-PilotWX',
                        header: 'Aviation weather',
                        position: 'bottom_right',
                        disabled: false,
                        config: {

the whole layout is shifted to the right; Is it possible to align/to stretch all elements like for the “Weather forecast” plugin?

Is it possible to use a same font/font size, like for standart modules (like "calendars, “weather”, etc.) to keep a same view for the whole mirror? It’s not a big deal, but in that case we can make a mirror looks more “arranged”.

And last, but do not least: @Mykle1, thanks again for your job.

320fan

one moew issue:

Datas from: https://aviationweather.gov/adds/dataserver_current/httpparam?dataSource=metars&requestType=retrieve&format=xml&stationString=UUDD&hoursBeforeNow=1

raw_text
UUDD 071630Z 34005MPS 9999 BKN022 M04/M08 Q1009 R88/520295 NOSIG
/raw_text

sky_condition sky_cover="BKN" cloud_base_ft_agl="2200"

It must be BKN022, not BKN2200.

Mykle1

@320fan said in MMM-aviationwx (Aviation weather):

No possibility to set custom number of airports for the “Static” view

Yes, at the moment you MUST use 8. However, another user has graciously asked if he could modify some things and issue a PR that I will merge into the module. That is one of the changes.

My next proposal is to remove line “Station Conditions” for the Static view.

You mean the headers, “Station” and “Conditions”? Add this to your custom.css file and it will remove both

.MMM-PilotWX .station {
  display: none;
}

And this to change to any color for rotating

.MMM-PilotWX .bottom_bar {
  color: yellow;
}

pressure must be like xx.xx (not like xx as it is)

Tell that to the API. That’s the data being given. I just display it.

Is it possible to use a same font/font size, like for standart modules (like "calendars, “weather”, etc.

Use css to customize to your liking

Alignment will always be an issue because the module is not set in a table. I did mention above that I am not capable of using tables yet. SO, for the time being, left regions will be better suited to the module

Taking specific portions of the raw_text for display is beyond me.