MMM-OpenWeatherForecast - Replacement for MMM-DarkSkyForecast

[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

[dkhorse74]

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

@dkhorse74 That’s the main header… hint…

:thumbs_up: Thank You

[karsten13]

so now i catched the situation where the alerts are in english and in german:

the data is coming directly from openweathermap, here the json-part:

[j.e.f.f]

@dkhorse74 that’s the main header for the module. Change it like this:

  {
    module: "MMM-OpenWeatherForecast",
    position: "top_right",
    header: "Forecast",  <— here
    config: {
      apikey: "a1b2c3d4e5f6g7h8j9k0", //only string here
      latitude: 51.490230,            //number works here
      longitude: "-0.258810"          //so does a string
    }
  },

[j.e.f.f]

@shiryu1031 you can’t do that independently on the main units setting. OpenWeather returns mph for imperial, and m/s for standard and metric.

[j.e.f.f]

@swvalenti yes you can. The weather alerts are part of the summary section. OpenWeather returns such a short summary that I didn’t think it necessary to make two separate configure. Two ways to turn off the alerts:

• set summary : false
• if you want the summary but not the alerts, you can hide them in your custom css as follows:

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

I think I’ll look at a way to truncate weather alerts so they don’t take up so much space.