MMM-OpenWeatherForecast - Replacement for MMM-DarkSkyForecast

[sdetweil]

@Egnos if u didn’t have apikeys from 2.5, then you only get keys from 3.0.

now that I have signed up for 3.0 all new keys will be 3.0

maybe pirate weather, which looks like the old darksky API is free for a while.

I see a pull request in the darksky module to use the pirate weather API.

git clone as normal
     or go to that module folder if already installed 
git fetch origin pull/38/head:pirate
git checkout pirate

then get a key from pirateweather
your old darksky module config ‘should’ work unchanged…

every provider is going to a charge model, maybe with some low volumes free ( for a while, til it costs too much to run)

[Egnos]

Hi there,
after various tests I managed to get MMM-DarkSkyForecast to work again with pirate-weather.api.

I followed the @dankerthrone guide on github:
https://github.com/jclarke0000/MMM-DarkSkyForecast/issues/36#issuecomment-1407382499
I’ll just add that it seems that the “beta” of PirateWeather is no longer available, so you have to select “Free Tier” and it works the same.

I also tried install the following module but didn’t work (seems to have the same modify contained in the @dankerthrone guide but I don’t know why it gives an error… )
https://github.com/dankerthrone/MMM-PirateSkyForecast

Thank you @sdetweil for your valuable advice!

[PaulB]

Thank you very much for this great module !

[p1lspeda]

Love this module.
I have one question: how do I increase the icon size and temperature size and have it right-aligned ?

Currently this is what it looks like (I know the icon has not loaded yet), and I’d like it larger and right-aligned.

Any hints as to what I need to adjust within the custom.css ?
Thanks

[Trashbln]

How can I turn off weather alerts? Unfortunately I can’t find a solution for this anywhere

[sdetweil]

@Trashbln there is no feature to do that, but you could add it pretty easily

add a new property to the defaults section

showAlerts: true,

then later around line 350
you need the alerts field for the return following

   var alerts = [];
   if(this.config.showAlerts){
      if (this.weatherData.alerts) {
       // for (alert in this.weatherData.alerts) {
       //   alert.description.replace("\n", "<br />");
       // }

       alerts = this.weatherData.alerts;
     }
}

in your config.js for this module config:{} section add

      showAlerts: false

[BKeyport]

@sdetweil easier fix in css:

/* Disable alerts */
.MMM-OpenWeatherForecast .weather-alert .weather-alert-description,
.MMM-OpenWeatherForecast .weather-alert .weather-alert-source {
	display: none;
}

[kasperb]

Just updated my module to use the v3.0 API, but getting the following error:

[ERROR] [MMM-OpenWeatherForecast] 30-Sep-24 20:15 ** ERROR ** ReferenceError: fetch is not defined

Any idea why that is? When I copy/paste the URL into the browser, I get a response.

[MarcLandis]

@kasperb what version of nodejs are you using?

what does the following command say:

nodejs -v

The module was recently changed to use a nodejs internal method to get the data, but your nodejs might be outdated.

[jimjones]

Thanks for the heads-up on MMM-OpenWeatherForecast as a replacement for MMM-DarkSkyForecast! I’m interested to see how it compares in terms of accuracy and features—has anyone tried it out yet?

[sdetweil]

@jimjones darksky has been dead for a number of years now.

[kasperb]

@MarcLandis Thanks… I was running a very old version of Raspian and wasn’t able to update Node. Setting up a new version now :-)