Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
MMM-WeatherAlerts
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@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.
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@JohnGalt appreciate the update.
For the module interference while no alerts are active, good eye. This is caused by the default “margin-bottom” that MagicMirror gives to each module. The result is that when no alerts are visible, the module takes up no space, but its margin is still pushing surrounding modules to create the undesired effect that you observed.
I have a quick (slightly-hacky) solution. In your “custom.css” file, add the following:
.MMM-WeatherAlerts { margin-bottom: 0px; }That should clean up the impact on your default weather modules. The side effect of this is that when there are alerts active, they will be stacked more tightly on-top of one another. I will look and see if I can find a robust way of handling this styling issue so that the spacing is included when the alerts are active and the spacing is “off” when there are no alerts to show. The trick here is that the spacing (margin-bottom) is set by the main app, and not by my module so it may take some work to implement a good solution.
FYI, on my mirror I have the alert module at the bottom of my default weather modules so it avoids this issue all together. Just another option…
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@Gjones93 - Humm, this is interesting. Thanks for the update. While I might just try moving the alert module to the bottom of the stack of weather modules, the core issue I have with it is it appears to also hold on to horizontal real estate when not actively displaying an alert - with the effect of carrying all the modules in that region with it. In my case, I have the weather modules down the right side of the display, narrowed to 82% in custom.css. Sadly, when running your alerts module, I cannot get custom.css to narrow it using the same code, and it also pads out the other modules from the side of the monitor… FWIW, I also tried controlling the alert module width using an absolute number of pixels, but that also had no effect.
The weather css code follows:
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@Gjones93 - Would there be any reason for this module to stop working? We are currently under an excessive heat warning, but nothing displays… I also tried locating another place under a warning, but it is not triggered by that warning either. Interestingly, when I run 'pm2 logs I don’t see any reference to this module at all. Following is my config:
{ module: "MMM-WeatherAlerts", disabled: false, position: "top_left", // top_right header: "Weather Alerts", config: { // lat: "36.131148", //Las Vegas = 36.131148 // lon: "-115.241867", // Las Vegas = -115.241867 // lat: "62.037360", //Alaska - for testing // lon: "-163.272301", // Alaska - for testing lat: "36.753342", // Alfalfa County, Oklahoma - for testing lon: "-98.355930", // Alfalfa County, Oklahoma - for testing weatherAlertProvider: "openweathermapalerts", weatherEndpoint: "/onecall", type: "alerts", apiKey: "xxxx", animationSpeed: 10000, // Default = 1000 (1 second) alertTimeFormat: "absolute", alertDateFormat: "llll", alertDescriptionScrollDelay: 100, // Default = 85, Lower = faster alert description will move colored: true }, }, -
@Gjones93 + @sdetweil – Is there any reason why openweathermap.org would not be returning alerts with the rest of the weather data? I have seen this behavior for some weeks/months now, and wonder whether it might be connected to the new API ver 3.0.
I currently am running both MMM-WeatherAlerts and MMM-OpenWeatherMapForecast. Both used to deliver alerts and neither currently do. I am currently under a wind warning, but no warning displays on either module. I have also found a location in Utah that is currently under a winter storm warning [22 inches of snow falling!], and set the lon/lat there in one MM instance, still with no alert output.
I see no errors in pm2 logs, and do see various other modules showing successful fetching of weather and news - so it looks like this is not a lack of network connection.
Since multiple modules are failing to fetch alerts, it feels like the problem is at the source - openweathermap - or the operation of its API.
Config code for the dev instance follows. Any thoughts?
{module: "MMM-WeatherAlerts", disabled: false, position: "top_left", // top_right // header: "Weather Alerts", config: { appendLocationNameToHeader: false, calendarClass: "calendar", tableClass: "small", // small // lat: "36.131148", lon: "-115.241867", //Las Vegas = 36.131148 lat: "38.549194", lon: "-111.709464", // Fish Lk, Ut - For testing // lat: "42.295568", lon: "-83.782281",// Ann Arbor, Mi - for testing // lat: "35.152661", lon: "-114.456767", // Lake Mead Rec Area - For testing // lat: "36.753342", lon: "-98.355930", // Alfalfa County, Oklahoma - for testing // lat: "40.924102", lon: "-115.122002", // Northern Nevada - for testing weatherAlertProvider: "openweathermapalerts", weatherEndpoint: "/onecall", type: "alerts", updateInterval: 10800000, // Fetch content every 3 hours apiKey: "xxxx", // 19 Sep 2024 Ver 3 animationSpeed: 10000, // Default = 1000 (1 second) alertTimeFormat: "relative", // absolute alertDateFormat: "llll", alertDescriptionScrollDelay: 100, // Default = 85, Lower = faster alert description will move colored: false }, }, // true -
It’s not working anymore because of this https://github.com/openhab/openhab-addons/issues/16665
Check the browser logs and you will see a 401
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@mmmallday – I already have a ver 3.0 API key, so if that is what you are referencing it’s covered.
Query: When you say “It’s not there…”, what “it” are you referencing? If you mean the weather in general, it’s definitely there - pulled from openweathermap and displayed on two different modules. I see it on my Magic Mirror as we speak on the default weather module and on MMM-OpenWeatherMapForecast.
I’m asking specifically about the alert information that gets delivered along with current conditions, forecasts, etc. This module [MMM-WeatherAlerts] should pull the weather data from openweathermap and display when [and only when] there is an active alert for the designated location. That is what is not happening… [FWIW, AFAIK other modules should also display alerts, e.g: MMM-OpenWeathermapForecast.]
I just now confirmed that openweathermap is actually sending the data. My location had a warning but it just expired, so I used my API key and queried them for a location the National Weather Service says is under a tornado warning.
Testing this is relatively straightforward. Go to the NWS alerts page to find a location with a current alert: https://alerts.weather.gov/search?region_type=land
Once you have a candidate location get the lat + lon from Google Maps, then use that and your API key to get the data in the browser, e.g.: https://api.openweathermap.org/data/3.0/onecall?lat=35.0194&lon=-97.3709&exclude=minutely&units=metric&lang=en&APPID=123456789123456789
Following is a snippet of the data retrieved (it’s at the very bottom of the page):
alerts 0 sender_name "NWS Norman OK" event "Flood Watch" start 1730730660 end 1730764800 description "* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be\npossible.\n\n* WHERE...Portions of Oklahoma, including the following counties,\nAtoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Coal,\nComanche, Cotton, Garfield, Garvin, Grady, Grant, Hughes, Jackson,\nJefferson, Johnston, Kay, Kingfisher, Kiowa, Lincoln, Logan, Love,\nMarshall, McClain, Murray, Noble, Oklahoma, Payne, Pontotoc,\nPottawatomie, Seminole, Stephens and Tillman and northern Texas,\nincluding the following counties, Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard,\nHardeman, Knox, Wichita and Wilbarger.\n\n* WHEN...Until 6 PM CST this evening.\n\n* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,\ncreeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.\nFlooding may occur in poor drainage and urban areas.\n\n* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...\n- Additional rounds of heavy rain will be possible through\nMonday, ending from west to east Monday afternoon. Many areas\nin the watch have seen 2 to 4 inches of rainfall, with some\nlocations 5 to 8 inches. The additional rain could lead to\nrapid flooding, especially in low lying and poorly drained\nareas.\n- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood" tags 0 "Flood"So my question remains - why is it that the National Weather Service is creating alerts, onerweathermap is collecting and delivering the alerts, but the alerts aren’t being processed by our modules?
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@mmmallday – Update: I now have this running. I made two changes and it now displays alerts.
It is not clear why these changes made any difference, because when i revert the changes the module still works. I would expect that if either or both made a difference, the module behavior would have changed back…
The first change was to remove a line I had added in the config to specify the endpoint, which is now removed
weatherEndpoint: "/onecall",The other change was to reduce the number of decimal points in the lat and lon from the six (6) produced by Google Maps to four(4), which I recall having used in the past.
As I said, it’s not clear what I did, but it’s working now so I will leave this module alone and go on to something else. Before I mark this as solved, I will wait a bit to see if anyone had further input as to the actual resolution.
Thanks for your time and attention.
