Weather not working

[KI6UVE]

I’ve got a fresh install of MM, but cannot get my weather working. There seems to be some places that reference the weather modules with different name, i.e. just “weather” and other places name it “currentweather” and “weatherforecast”. Also, some places use the term “apiKey” and others use the term “appid”. What is the best practice? Here is my config file:

modules: [
  {
	module: "alert",
  },
  {
	module: "updatenotification",
	position: "top_bar"
  },
  {
	module: "clock",
	position: "top_left"
  },
  {
	module: "calendar",
	header: "US Holidays",
	position: "top_left",
	config: {
	  calendars: [
		{
		  symbol: "calendar-check",
		  url: "webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/76/US_Holidays.ics"
		}
	  ]
	}
  },
  {
	module: "compliments",
	position: "lower_third"
  },
  {
	module: "currentweather",
	position: "top_right",
	config: {
	  weatherProvider: "openweathermap",
	  type: "current",
	  location: "Poway",
	  locationID: "5384690", //ID from http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/city.list.json.gz; unzip the gz file and find your city
	  appid: "c969043fff6dd1f7ef7bfa632f125d5c"
  }
},
{
	module: "weatherforecast",
	position: "top_right",
	header: "Weather Forecast",
	config: {
	  weatherProvider: "openweathermap",
	  type: "forecast",
	  location: "Poway",
	  locationID: "5384690", //ID from http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/city.list.json.gz; unzip the gz file and find your city
	  appid: "c969043fff6dd1f7ef7bfa632f125d5c"
	}
  },
  {
	module: "newsfeed",
	position: "bottom_bar",
	config: {
	  feeds: [
		{
		  title: "New York Times",
		  url: "https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
		}
	  ],
	  showSourceTitle: true,
	  showPublishDate: true,
	  broadcastNewsFeeds: true,
	  broadcastNewsUpdates: true
	}
  },
]

};

[sdetweil]

@KI6UVE the doc for openweathermap provider uses a different term for the key

[sdetweil]

@KI6UVE currentweather and weatherforecast have been replaced by weather, with type:‘current’ or type:‘forecast’

[KI6UVE]

@sdetweil

I changed it from appid to apiKey and the other module names to just “weather”, but still just black space where it should be in MM. Did I miss anything else?

[sdetweil]

@KI6UVE looks like weather via openweathermap takes lat/lon, not location

i recommend reading the doc, linked to from the MM github page

[KI6UVE]

@sdetweil
I read that doc and I changed weatherEndpoint to “/onecall” and put in the lat and lon variables, but now I get a parsing error: unexpected token “lat”

[sdetweil]

@KI6UVE don’t change the endpoint, missing a comma on the line before?

[KI6UVE]

@sdetweil
I took out the endpoint line and that fixed the parsing error, but still no weather. I rechecked my api key and it is correct. Any other ideas? Thanks!!

[sdetweil]

@KI6UVE open the developers window, ctrl-shift-i, then select the console tab and put weath in the filter field

is this an openweather v 3 apikey, that u had to provide a credit card to get?

if so, add

apiVersion:'3.0',

to the weather config section

[KI6UVE]

@sdetweil
No luck. I noticed you used ‘ ‘ instead of “ “ for the ‘3.0’. I used “ “ for all my other variables, such as type: “forecast”. Is that correct?

The doc file doesn’t have any notation for how the lat/Lon is presented. Should that read…lat: ‘33.3025’ or nothing as it would imply in the doc file, I.e., lat: 33.3025

[sdetweil]

@KI6UVE lat and lng are numbers, so no quotes. either type is ok as long as they match

[KI6UVE]

@sdetweil
No luck with that. Should the apiVersion be in ‘ ‘ or raw? Is there a different weather app api that is easier to configure?

[sdetweil]

@KI6UVE I just did this

		{
			module: "weather",
			position: "top_right",
			config: {
				weatherProvider: "openweathermap",
				type: "current",
			//	location: "New York",
			//	locationID: "5128581", //ID from http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/city.list.json.gz; unzip the gz file and find your city
				apiKey: ".....",
				lat:30.xxxxxx,
				lon:-97.xxxxxx
			}
		},

and it worked (top right)

and the other used locationID… with my apiKey

[sdetweil]

@KI6UVE

if you open the developers window using the instructions i gave before, do you see any errors?

[KI6UVE]

@sdetweil
Something must be wrong with my api key. I did not see the instructions for opening a developers window. Could you send again?

[sdetweil]

@KI6UVE https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/17411/weather-not-working/9?_=1668880346563

[KI6UVE]

@sdetweil

That brought up module weather.js, Uncaught SyntaxError: unexpected token .

[sdetweil]

@KI6UVE what line number?

[KI6UVE]

@sdetweil

159

[sdetweil]

@KI6UVE how did you install MM? my script or manually?

what version of nodejs is installed?

node -v