Modifying the Config File

[fulviolcabrera]

@jimb once you download it search for your location. For example, city. It with show your locationID or long or lat. Etc

[jimb]

Guys,
It’s obvious that I am not specifying the correct item or leaving something out. It’s difficult because noe of the examples I’ve see "lay out’ the complete line of the config only some parts. I’ve played with different items changing them aroud and I get different reports from running in dev of either “401 no authorized” to “404 not found” on the string sent to weathermap. I am using the following-
apiVersion: “3.0”
location: “Houston”
locationID: “4699066”
apiKey: “xxx” a 32 digit hexadecimal received after registering.
I am not using the Lat or Lon at this time

[sdetweil]

@jimb weather is a pain in the rear. the providers are mess, openweather is the worst

I believe if you have the new API version you must set the endpoint:“/onecall”
AND then you MUST USE lat/lon

[jimb]

A lillte ray of sunshine… It 'apears" to be talking with operweather now since the MM display shows-

UNDEFINED

(wind symbol) 0 north INVALID DATE

NaN (degrees)

Feels like 32.0 degrees

WEATHER FORECAST UNDEFINED

I’m still getting 401 Unauthorized failed to load resource file. And getting other Cannot Read errors from openweather when using DEV option while running MM

[sdetweil]

@jimb can you post the complete module definition

xxx out the apikey field

[jimb]

Sam, here tis. I just noticed the string symbol ($) and the brackets ({}) in the apiKey. I found that in the instructions in MM. I didn’t try the config without them…

module: “weather”,
units: “imperial”,
windUnits: “imperial”,
tenpUnits: “imperial”,
position: 'top right",
config: {
apiVersion: “3.0”,
weatherProvider: “openweather”,
weatherEndpoint: “/onecall”,
lat: “33.50872”,
lon: “-96.612213”,
type: “current”,
location: “Houston”,
locationID: 4699066",
apiKey: “${xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx}”,
}
},
{
module: “weather”,
units: “imperial”,
windUnits: “imperial”,
tenpUnits: “imperial”,
position: 'top right",
config: {
apiVersion: “3.0”,
weatherProvider: “openweather”,
weatherEndpoint: “/onecall”,
lat: “33.50872”,
lon:" -96.612213",
type: “current”,
location: “Houston”,
locationID: 4699066",
apiKey: “${xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx}”,

[sdetweil]

@jimb I don’t understand that comment about $[] as the sample looks like this

please take those characters off, it should just be the text provided by openweather, in quotes

[jimb]

Sam, this was from one source (above that you pasted). Mo config with the weather data is above that and includes the items I mentioned. BTW, I keyed it separately as I am unable to paste from the Rasberry Pi to my windows PC.

[sdetweil]

@jimb on the pi desktop, menu top left
preferences, pi preferences.
interfaces, check ssh on. ok,
change host name, just look at it, should be raspberrypi

then save/exit, reboot

on your PC do

ssh pi@raspberrypi

if the userid you created on the pi is pi.

use the password you set when you booted the first time

now you have a terminal on the pi from your PC, and you can copy/paste in both directions…

[jimb]

Sam, I remember the name I gave to the Pi, but unfortunately not the password. Is there a way to find it?

[sdetweil]

@jimb np, but you should be able to change it from the preferences without knowing it

[jimb]

Sam, I know the name assigned to the rasberry. I now know the password as I have changed it. SSH is not resolving the hostname. So, what is the proper way to populate the following-

ssh {what goes here}@{what goes here}

Example: ssh {{hostname} @ {password} ???

[sdetweil]

@jimb ssh user @ hostname

every command supports help

command_name -h or --h

[jimb]

Sam, the username seems to be OK, but the hostame doesn’t resolve. Even though it shows in preference. Am I missing something

[sdetweil]

@jimb try adding .local after the hostname

or use the IP address of the pi.

[jimb]

Sam, beating head against rock… local host didn’t work. I was able to resolve an IP address, but it appeared to be a v6 that would.t work with ssh. I don’t know the next step.

[jimb]

Sam, since I’m not making any progress on the weather module I’m going to remark all the lines out for now and move on to other modules.

[sdetweil]

@jimb ok the address was probably raspberrypi.local

you need to disable ipv6 on the pi, in the network settings of the pi config under the desktop menu
no reason to have ipv6 in a home environment

[jimb]

Sam, no joy on either suggestion. Would it be worth it to start the MM install over again. I couldn’t ‘remark’ out the lines, just caused an error with the config file.

I bought the Rasberry Pi with a pre-populated SIM. Not how to get it in virgin state.

[sdetweil]

@jimb you can just copy the config.js.sample over/instead of config.js

cd ~/MagicMirror/config
mv config.js config.js.save
cp config.js.sample config.js

now MM is back to new, and we saved the config you have