MMM-OpenWeatherForecast - Replacement for MMM-DarkSkyForecast

[ebolisa]

@j-e-f-f Thanks for sharing.

Does it work on Pi Zero? In my case it doesn’t load. I just see FORCAST and then “Loading…” forever :astonished_face:
Using defaults, no changes made.

[j.e.f.f]

@jenga said in MMM-OpenWeatherForecast - Replacement for MMM-DarkSkyForecast:

I am trying to adjust the hours under the hourly forecast to reflect a different time zone. I was reviewing the code and I see UTC references. How can I adjust this to CST?

The API returns UTC time for everything as well as a timezone offset for the long/lat you provide. The module translates UTC into local time using these two bits of information. Say you’re living in London, but you configure this module with Long/Lat for New York, then the time you’ll see is local to New York. I can’t request a different timezone in the API.

UPDATE

So quick to jump to conclusions am I… this was a bug in my code. OpenWeather documentation says the hourly time forecasts are provided in UTC, and elsewhere in the API response a timezone offset is provided. I took this to mean that in order to see local time for the forecast I needed to add the offset to the hourly time. As it turns out this is not the case. OpenWeather does not explicitly say this anywhere in the docs that I could find, but the JSON response is already translated to whatever local timezone the request was made from. So if I live in London and I make a request for weather in Chicago I’ll see the hourly forecasts in local London time, not in local Chicago time.

I’ve changed the code so that I no longer add the offset to hourly forecast times. Do a git pull in the MMM-OpenWeatherForecast directory, then restart MM. Should be fixed up.

[j.e.f.f]

@swvalenti said in MMM-OpenWeatherForecast - Replacement for MMM-DarkSkyForecast:

@j-e-f-f Am I missing a way to turn off current weather alerts? Once a weather alert like high wind or snow it drops my tables down and throws other modules off.

If you set summary: false this will stop weather alerts from displaying. The OpenWeather API doesn’t return a detailed summary (usually just a single word like “Cloudy.” ) so I didn’t think it was necessary to split these two out into separate configs.

If you wanted to keep the summary, but not show weather alerts, you can set summary: true in your config and then prevent display of alerts in your custom CSS as follows:

.MMM-OpenWeatherForecast .weather-alert {
  display: none;
}

[j.e.f.f]

@ebolisa said in MMM-OpenWeatherForecast - Replacement for MMM-DarkSkyForecast:

@j-e-f-f Thanks for sharing.

Does it work on Pi Zero? In my case it doesn’t load. I just see FORCAST and then “Loading…” forever :astonished_face:
Using defaults, no changes made.

I haven’t tested this on a pi zero (I don’t have one to test on). Do you see any errors either in pm2 logs mm or in Electron if you run Magic Mirror with npm start dev?

Also, just double-checking: did you remember to run npm install in the MMM-OpenWeatherForecast` directory to ensure all of the dependencies were installed? Forgetting to do this would be another reason you might see it stuck on “Loading…”

[j.e.f.f]

@majorc said in MMM-OpenWeatherForecast - Replacement for MMM-DarkSkyForecast:

@cowboysdude it would be nice if someone with knowledge could have a look at the API of www.yr.no

The forecast is very good and they are providing free world wide data.

This looks promising, and seemingly doesn’t require an API key. I’ll keep an eye on this as a replacement candidate in case OpenWeather follows Dark Sky’s lead.

[anubis273]

Howdy!

I installed this beautiful module to my magic mirror2. i run my mm in docker container and I´m at version 2.14. When I take a view at the official site it seems the latest version with 2.14 is confirmed.

I think you know what comes next: I have installed the module properly and adjusted the configuration. However, only the word “forecast” is displayed. Now I have seen in the notes that I should be at least on version 2.2 with the magic mirror. I am slightly confused because 2.14 is the latest version?
When I do a git pull it says that the latest version is already installed.
Do I have a thinking error in my approach?
Would be happy to hear something about this :-)

kind regards,

Nubi

[ebolisa]

@j-e-f-f It works on P0. My bad, had an extra space in the api key. Thank you.

[j.e.f.f]

@anubis273 This module works on 2.14 – tested that specifically myself. MagicMirror’s version numbering can get a bit confusing… 2.14 is MUCH newer than 2.2. Versioning goes 2.2, 2.3, … 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, etc.

Double check your config settings. Maybe try with just the minimal config required for MMM-OpenWeatherForecast – apikey, latitude, and longitude – and see if the module works with just those. Also make sure you’ve run npm install in the MMM-OpenWeatherForecast directory.

If the module runs with just the above, then start adding your additional configuration options one at a time to see which one caused it to fail. Let me know and we can take it from there.

[anubis273]

@j-e-f-f

Hey j-e-f-f,

thanks for clearing up my confusion about MagicMirror versions ;-) And thanks also for the quick feedback!

So, I double checked the configuration and it doesn’t seem to have any syntax errors:

 {
        module: "MMM-OpenWeatherForecast",
        position: "top_right",
        header: "Forecast",
            config: {
            apikey: "myAPIKey",                                                                                            //only string here
            latitude: 50.748780,                                                                                           //number works here
            longitude: 7.137300                                                                                            //so does a string
                        }
  },

I tried the minimal configuration as you suggested, unfortunately without success. I also checked the Api Key of OpenWeatherMap, this is also correct. The module also seems to work. The problem is that it just doesn’t load any weather data and I don’t understand why.

If I find a solution to this, I will of course get back to you.

Many greetings,

Nubi

[j.e.f.f]

@anubis273 I just tried the default config with your long/lat settings and the module worked for me. So let’s try digging a little more. Are you seeing any errors in the logs? There are a bunch of places to look:

If you are running MagicMirror using PM2, run pm2 restart mm && pm2 logs mm. Look for any output prefixed with [MMM-OpenWeatherForecast]. If you are instead running MagicMirror from the command line, any errors will be in the in the console, prefixed like above.

Also need to check to see if Electron is throwing any errors. start MagicMirror in dev mode npm start dev. Any Electron errors will show in the browser console, usually in red.

Also, since the basic config isn’t working for you, but is for me, can you double check that your API Key is correct?

• Jeff

[anubis273]

@j-e-f-f
Hey j-e-f-f,

thanks for your quick reply. I will investigate every single point you wrote. Give me a little time for that, I will get back to you as soon as possible.

Regards from Germany,

Nubi

[anubis273]

@j-e-f-f
Hey Jeff,

just a little update from my side:

I am using my MagicMirror in a Docker container on a Synology DS718+ NAS. On my physical Mirror is an RPi4 which shows the MagicMirror in fullscreen mode via Browser. It is incredibly hard to get log files this way.
When I open the log from Docker itself I see entries for the module, but they are all unspectacular.

I took the API key and put it into a Get command via Postman:

GET http://api.openweathermap.org/data/3.0/stations?appid=34a2f353f6933ab3b5deletedpart>

[
    {
        "id": "5ff1e82e09<deletedpart>",
        "created_at": "2021-01-03T15:52:14.089Z",
        "updated_at": "2021-01-03T15:52:14.089Z",
        "external_id": "IKNVILIC5",
        "name": "Neu-Vilich Bonn",
        "longitude": 7.13,
        "latitude": 50.74,
        "altitude": 70,
        "rank": 10
    }
]

The result looks good, the API key seems to work.

I don’t have PM2 in my Docker container unfortunately, so I’ll have to see how to get the appropriate log files. I’ll get back to you when I have new findings on this.

Many greetings,

Nubi

[dkhorse74]

@j-e-f-f This is AWESOME!! SO SO much better than the default weather module… Question, how do I change the current weather header from “Forecast” to “Current”?

[BKeyport]

@dkhorse74 That’s the main header… hint…

[shiryu1031]

thank you so much for the awesome job.
however, may I ask how can I change the unit for the wind speed? I can’t seem to find where I can customize this.

[0m4r]

@anubis273 how do you start your magic mirror?
I guess with either npm run start or npm run server
In either case, you should be able to see the logs that are generated in the console…

you may also want to try to change the log level in your config.js to a more verbose level than “ERORR” (which I believe is the default)

[OberfragGER]

Nice Module.

But i dont get the german time format (24H) not working. And do you have any idea how to have the germany translation of the warnings?

Here is my config:

		{
		module: "MMM-OpenWeatherForecast",
		position: "top_right",
//		header: "Forecast",
		config: {
			apikey: "myKey", //only string here
			latitude: 53,            //number works here
			longitude: 10,          //so does a string
			language: "de",
			forecastHeaderText: "Wetter Vorhersage für ....",
			iconset: "3c",
			label_timeFormat: "k[h]",
			label_days: ["So", "Mo", "Di", "Mi", "Do", "Fr", "Sa"]
			}
		},

[OberfragGER]

@oberfragger ok. Got sunrise working in german. There was a missing config line:

label_sunriseTimeFormat: "hh:mm",

and also with the time… also a typo (forgot the “hourly”):

label_hourlyTimeFormat: "k[h]",

I edited this to:

label_hourlyTimeFormat: "k[ Uhr]",

Still inspecting the storm warning in german…

[karsten13]

@oberfragger

Still inspecting the storm warning in german…

same problem here, saw meanwhile some of this warnings in german but mostly in english. Looks like a problem on the provider side, when inspecting the called url in the browser the retrieved data is in english.

So this can’t be solved by the module.

[swvalenti]

@j-e-f-f Anyway to hide the special weather advisory? Really jacks up my layout, I took a look at config but nothing stood out.
Thanks