oneweathermap

Ray

Hello everyone, I thought I give everybody an update.
So I decided to wipe everything out and start over from scratch. I had a lot of fun doing it and learned a lot. Everything seems to be running much better. And all my changes are now in the config file. My email even gets retrieved faster than my phone, How funny is that.
onewhethermap though was doing perfectly with only a 1° and 2° off until it reached 81°. Then everything started going downhill. It is still 86° outside but it is displaying 79 so I don’t know what’s going on.
I change the updateInterval: from 10 to 20 and we’ll see how that works.

I also wanted to thank everyone for helping me out . I did not know all changes were supposed to be in the config file only. So once again, thank you for that information.

Tippon

@ray Hi Ray :)

Try changing your weather location in the config file. Instead of using the latitude and longitude, try using locationID and using the value from the Open Weather Map site for your area here (from the end of the url):

https://openweathermap.org/city/5406990

So in your case it would be

locationID: 5406990

I found that this worked for me when the latitude and longitude didn’t :)

Ray

@tippon I have actually tried just that When I first installed it and use that exact same number along with the coordinates that onewhethermap suggested but since I upgraded to the newer version. The newer version doesn’t use that anymore. Not to say I can’t add it

I actually change the retrieval time from 10 to 20 so far it seems to be working. I’m getting anywhere between 1° and 2° off which I can accept that even the professionals who give us the weather are sometimes off by 1° and 2° from different stations. So keep your fingers crossed that that will be consistent throughout today.

Thanks for your suggestion though, since I’m new on here. I’m open to any kind of suggestion

Tippon

@ray Try just using the location ID and see if it’s more accurate. I’m pretty sure I had problems when I tried to use both.

You can comment out the coordinate lines by putting // in front of them, so you don’t have to delete and retype them :)

Ray

@tippon okay, that’s an idea. I didn’t think about. I will give it a try and let you know

Ray

So I think I found the problem, but don’t know how to fix it. It’s been off as much as 3 to 4°. According to other reliable weather like local news. when I restart Magic mirror it is now only one degrees off so I’m not quite experienced enough yet, but I think it has something to do with retrieval data or I think they call it, call for data which I sent back to 10 minutes

If I didn’t explain that right. I apologize. I’m still learning

Ray

@tippon unfortunately, I have the newer version so location ID is no longer there just coordinate

Tippon

@ray said in oneweathermap:

@tippon unfortunately, I have the newer version so location ID is no longer there just coordinate

I’ve got the up to date version too. You can put the locationID in yourself. This is the config for one of my weather modules, with my personal data removed:

    {
      module: 'weather',
      position: 'top_right',
      config: {
		weatherProvider: 'openweathermap',
                type: 'current',
		apiKey: "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
		locationID: 1234567
		}
    },

As you can see, I’ve removed the coordinates lines and added in the locationID line instead.

You can use the options from the documentation here to change the config to suit your needs:

https://docs.magicmirror.builders/modules/weather.html#configuration-options

Ray

@tippon well, that’s interesting. So I tried your method and it Just keeps saying loading, which it never did. I verified my location ID just to make sure it was correct and it was.

What I’m finding out is when I use my current setting. When it reaches 70 or 80°. It starts losing accuracy as much as 5°
anything below those temperatures. The accuracy is between 1 and 2°
also, just to let you know I’m running this on Lennix mint
if I can get it to be constant 1 or 2° difference. I would be perfectly happy with that

Tippon

@ray I’m really sorry, I’ve got things wrong.

I’m not sure why, but I thought you meant that you were using the Open Weather Map configuration for the default weather module, which is what I’m doing. At least that explains why our experiences don’t match up.

Sorry :confounded_face: