MMM-OpenWeatherForecast - Replacement for MMM-DarkSkyForecast

[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.

[j.e.f.f]

@karsten13 I don’t think there is much I can do here. I’ve coded this module to explicitly pass through a language parameter, either whatever is set in your main MM config, or whatever you explicitly set in the module’s config. It seems that OpenWeather doesn’t translate the weather alert, but merely passes them on as-is from whatever source it gets them from. Which is why sometimes you’re getting only English, and other times you’re getting multiple translations.

[swvalenti]

@j-e-f-f said in MMM-OpenWeatherForecast - Replacement for MMM-DarkSkyForecast:

@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.

Awesome thanks @j-e-f-f !

[dkhorse74]

@j-e-f-f

Thanks Jeff!!

[shiryu1031]

@j-e-f-f I see, thank you for your help. I thought it can be done because the example picture on Github is in km/h, but for myself, I am only seeing m/s as you mentioned. I guess it can not be change from m/s to km/h?

[karsten13]

@j-e-f-f

I don’t think there is much I can do here.

yes, I’m aware of this. Sent a mail to openweathermap.org and will let you know if I ever get a response …

[OberfragGER]

Did anyone have an idea how to chage the timeformat from sundown?
Now its displayed: 6:20… i want to have 18:20
I already changed the rest.