Weather not working

[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

[KI6UVE]

@sdetweil

Used in the install script npm install-mm from the website instructions. nodejs version is 16.18.1

[sdetweil]

@KI6UVE hm… I think that is manual install …

my scripts (listed in alternative install section)
are here
https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts

did u ever edit the weather.js file?
if so, you can restore it

cd ~/MagicMirror
git checkout modules/default/weather/weather.js

what MM version are u running? 2.21 is current

cd ~/MagicMirror
grep version package.json

[KI6UVE]

@sdetweil

Never edited the weather.js file. Ran the git checkout line and it said Updated 0 paths from index. Version is 2.21.0

I’ll do a complete redo tomorrow with your GitHub scripts on a fresh RPi OS install. I’ll post the result here.

[sdetweil]

@KI6UVE thx, really just need to rename the MM folder to some other name… then my script will run

I don’t think this is an OS problem