MMM-WeatherAlerts

JohnGalt

@Gjones93: I do have it working now [I think the original issue was bad installation on my part]. FWIW, I also moved it up from the bottom bar to the top bar, and it is displaying the current wind alert at my location just fine. Thanks again.

JohnGalt

@Gjones93: BTW, when I set alertTimeFormat to absolute [overriding the default ‘relative’] - I get a black screen on the display, and the web page won’t load on the remote machine. I haven’t done any troubleshooting on this yet, but it has the feel of a module using an old library that is no longer supported…

croc_dad72

@Gjones93 Maybe I don’t understand how to get right api then? I went in and subscribed, created a new api in the api generator, and is still isn’t working? I was able to borrow someone else’s api key for a min and it worked?

Gjones93

@croc_dad72 I tried that lat and lon and I am seeing the winter weather advisory.

Let me ask this: For the other weather modules (e.g. forecast), are you setting an apiVersion parameter in your config file? If yes, to what?

Lastly, are you able to share your config layout for the MMM-WeatherAlerts module, minus your apiKey? I’m expecting something like this:

		{
			module: "MMM-WeatherAlerts",
			position: "top_right",
			header: "Weather Alerts",
			config: {
				lat: "42.4604",
				lon: "-71.3489",
				colored: true,
				alertTimeFormat: "absolute",
			}
		},

Gjones93

@JohnGalt unable to replicate this issue. I setup my computer as MagicMirror server and then I am able to access the server from my computer’s web-browser and from my raspberry pi acting as a client with both displays showing as expected.

Am I misunderstanding your current configuration? Did you happen to set the ‘alertDateFormat’ parameter in your configuration as well?

croc_dad72

@Gjones93 said in MMM-WeatherAlerts:

@croc_dad72 I tried that lat and lon and I am seeing the winter weather advisory.

Let me ask this: For the other weather modules (e.g. forecast), are you setting an apiVersion parameter in your config file? If yes, to what?

Lastly, are you able to share your config layout for the MMM-WeatherAlerts module, minus your apiKey? I’m expecting something like this:

Im just using the default weather from MM, and I have changed any of those parameters at all, just added my api key, and city id.

My config:

{ module: "MMM-WeatherAlerts",
      position: "top_right", // top_right
      header: "Weather Alerts",
      config: {
      // See 'Configuration options' for more information.
        lat: "42.4604",
        lon: "-71.3489",
        apiKey: "",
        colored: true
}
},

sdetweil

@croc_dad72 please use code block markers for config info

paste your text into the message editor,
select the text you just pasted
and hit the button above the editor that looks like </>

that module config is not from MagicMirror

that would be

{
        module:'weather'

croc_dad72

@sdetweil my apologies, thank you for fixing it!

croc_dad72

@Gjones93 Well it seems to be working now, I guess I just needed to give the api time to start working, thanks for all the help!

JohnGalt

@Gjones93 - I am unable to replicate this today, too. It appears to be working as designed today. [There is no active alert at my location, so I changed the lat/lon to the same location in Alaska as before, and a Winter Weather Advisory displays. Both the local and Alaska work on the display and when accessing via a browser at port 8080 on my desktop.] For completeness, no - I did not set or change alertDateFormat from the default in the config.js.

Related but separate query: Does the module take up any space or affect existing modules when it is not actively displaying an alert? I ask because I have several instances of the default weather module stacked in the top_right region, and this module appears to affect their placement.