MMM-OpenWeatherMapForecast stuck on Loading....

sdetweil

@bassin12 with that api key data is coming back, but its in the wrong format

i switch to my apikey and all is good

ally

@sdetweil I deleted the MMM-OpenWeatherMapForecast and reinstalled it as per the instructions. Results below, no change.

/home/pi/.pm2/logs/MagicMirror-out.log last 50 lines:
0|MagicMir | [30.08.2022 18:29.44.705] [INFO]  Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 6 events.
0|MagicMir | [30.08.2022 18:32.45.422] [INFO]  Newsfeed-Fetcher: Broadcasting 35 items.
0|MagicMir | [30.08.2022 18:34.45.902] [INFO]  Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 6 events.
0|MagicMir | [30.08.2022 18:37.19.673] [LOG]   [MMM-OpenWeatherMapForecast] 30-Aug-22 18:37 ** ERROR ** null
0|MagicMir | [30.08.2022 18:37.45.605] [INFO]  Newsfeed-Fetcher: Broadcasting 35 items.
0|MagicMir | [30.08.2022 18:39.47.120] [INFO]  Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 6 events.
0|MagicMir | [30.08.2022 18:42.45.793] [INFO]  Newsfeed-Fetcher: Broadcasting 35 items.
0|MagicMir | [30.08.2022 18:44.48.354] [INFO]  Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 6 events.
0|MagicMir | [30.08.2022 18:47.19.775] [LOG]   [MMM-OpenWeatherMapForecast] 30-Aug-22 18:47 ** ERROR ** null
0|MagicMir | [30.08.2022 18:47.45.968] [INFO]  Newsfeed-Fetcher: Broadcasting 35 items.
0|MagicMir | [30.08.2022 18:49.49.561] [INFO]  Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 6 events.
0|MagicMir | [30.08.2022 18:52.46.128] [INFO]  Newsfeed-Fetcher: Broadcasting 35 items.
0|MagicMir | [30.08.2022 18:54.50.794] [INFO]  Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 6 events.
0|MagicMir | [30.08.2022 18:57.19.667] [LOG]   [MMM-OpenWeatherMapForecast] 30-Aug-22 18:57 ** ERROR ** null
0|MagicMir | [30.08.2022 18:57.46.299] [INFO]  Newsfeed-Fetcher: Broadcasting 35 items.
0|MagicMir | [30.08.2022 18:59.52.001] [INFO]  Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 6 events.
0|MagicMir | [30.08.2022 19:02.46.483] [INFO]  Newsfeed-Fetcher: Broadcasting 35 items.
0|MagicMir | [30.08.2022 19:04.53.188] [INFO]  Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 6 events.

Am I doing anything wrong?

Ally

bassin12

I think I was able to get to the bottom of this, you need to subscribe to the API giving your credit card information, also API 2.5 is deprecated for new users, I entered in contact with Open Weather and they have sent me this information.

Hope this helps people in the future.

sdetweil

@ally what instructions?

unless the author changed the code, nothing will change

ally

@bassin12 said in MMM-OpenWeatherMapForecast stuck on Loading....:

I think I was able to get to the bottom of this, you need to subscribe to the API giving your credit card information, also API 2.5 is deprecated for new users, I entered in contact with Open Weather and they have sent me this information.

Hope this helps people in the future.

What service did you subscribe to, as that looks like the only way to enter your credit card info.

Ally

elorand

Hey @ally, I recently ran into the same problem like you.
I followed all instructions given to you from @sdetweil and finally figured out, what the problem was: openweathermap updated its api to version 3.0!
Even if you have a free subscription (limiting to 1000 api-calls a day, which is fine unless you stay above a refreshrate of every 3 minutes), you need to edit the link in node_helper.js from

var url = "https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/onecall" +

to

var url = "https://api.openweathermap.org/data/3.0/onecall" +

For the free subscription on API-Version 3.0, you need to provide your credit card information, but you can set the maximum of possible API-calls to 1000, so that you will never ever ran into any costs.

sdetweil

@elorand the default weather module still uses 2.5 and it works

chief

Just following up on this thread - I also am on the “free tier” 2.5 API version and when I try to use MMM-OpenWeatherForecast, it is stuck on “Loading”.

Any advice?

elorand

@sdetweil I couldn’t choose the old 2.5 API when I registered as new user to OpenWeatherMap. Therefore I had no other chance than to go with the 3.0 API.

@chief depending on the API you are subscribed to, you need to edit the node_helper.js (as mentioned in my previous post). After editing you should restart your magicmirror.

karsten13

@sdetweil

the default weather module still uses 2.5 and it works

at the moment, yes.

I looked into their api stuff and onecall v2.5 is not mentioned anymore. The normal endpoints weather and forecast are still on v2.5.

Problem: For onecall 3.0 you need a special api key (as already mentioned here) with a subsciption where you have to give your payment data (1000 request free per day, limit is 2000 per day but you can set your limit to 1000 if you want it for free … ).

I think we will get problems/questions to this for the default weather module too.

So (for default weather module) if you use endpoints weather and forecast and old onecall v2.5 everthing works out of the box with old api keys, if someone use new onecall v3.0 he needs an api key for 3.0 and has to set apiVersion: "3.0", in the config …