Unfortunately BOM lately has made changes to their site which is preventing accessing their data claiming it’s scraping but they provide a JSON file which I’m accessing (for part of it anyway) so my module no longer works- I’ve changed things a couple of times to circumvent the issue but it keeps coming back so I’m going to look at other ways to access the data. One that looks promising is WillyWeather. It is a paid service based on the number of access’s billed monthly. But it appears to be very cheap - It looks like for one Magic Mirror accessing data from one weather station and radar image works out at less than $10 a year.
When accessing the BOM currently they return a message to fill in a request form and some one will make contact - I filled in their form a couple of months ago and am yet to receive a response. Maybe when they get the servers sorted out things might change….

yes the XML issue was a problem but I got around that by downloading the XML then as sdetweil suggested using XLM2JS to convert the file to JSON which I could ten search for the relevant fields unfortunately its not very tidy and needs customizing for each site.

IF you want to have a look at how Ive done it the files are here
https://github.com/saabman/WallberryTheme/blob/master/WB-weather/README.md

I am not by any means a programmer - just kept hacking away at the weather module till it did what I wanted - Im sure there are better ways to do it… hopefully it is help full any way

nodejs xml to json

Thanks Sam, I will see what i can do

"John

google search

nodejs xml to json

there are a few…
some let you target a specific section of the xml

So I have been reworking the Weather Module from WallberryTheme to use Aus govs BOM data. getting observations was easier enough as they provide that in JSON format which makes it some what easy but they only provide XML data for forecasts and the format is different for every site :( so my plans to “release” my module have stalled. because it has to be customised for each site.

I find a lot of the “Pro” sites like weather channel, Google etc are using data from sites in the northern Hemisphere. This can make it very hard to know what is the correct temp. I have an API from BOM but haven’t figured out the coding as they don;t use Json.

I would like to get data from Windy.com for cloud and wave data but that is expensive

temp: 1234 is a number
temp ‘1234’ is a string
temp: ‘null’ is string
temp: null is undefined

print temp from above will do 1234, or 1234, or null, or undefined

i used lat long in OpenWeather though and didnt try using the PWS so that might be the difference

I have tried various modules that require Lon and Lat or area and found this happens a lot ‘down under’ as there seems to be less active locations than in the northern hemisphere.

for my mirror I used default weatherforecast and MMM-OpenmapWeather . Both of these use Open Weather map that has locations rather than co-ordinates.

MMM-MyWeather also uses locations (PWS)

a condition for lat >= 0

so, to add to the prior discussion

if the user had coded lat:“-16” in config.js

the comparison would always be true comparing a string to a 0 (all ‘string’ objects would be non-zero, regardless of their content)

for what it’s worth, I ended up learning to use the console more and figured out something in the moon direction logic was broken because it was looking for there was a condition for lat >= 0. I’ve just gone through and deleted all references to moon phases in the MMM-MyWeather.js file and it’s working fine now.

probably not the most elegant of solutions, but at least it gives me way more information than “loading…”

  fcdaycount: "5",
  fcdaystart: "0",
  hourlyinterval: "3",
  hourlycount: "2",

but i don’t care what the author posted… those are strings, that need to be converted to numbers…

anyhow

the code above were copied and pasted the config from the module documentation. i’ve just changed the co-ordinates to be southern hemisphere co-ordinates