MMM-OpenWeatherForecast

[Ray]

So after getting everything set up with the new version 3.0 at openweathermap.org
I turned on my mirror for the first time this morning and it displayed the weather
and so I went to openweathermap.org just to check how many calls I made it already had me down for 20 calls
am I missing something here

[sdetweil]

@Ray how often is the module fetching the weather ?

[wishmaster270]

@sdetweil In default the module calls the Api every 10 minutes.

[sdetweil]

@wishmaster270 thanks. i knew i could go look, asking poster to do the same.

[Ray]

@wishmaster270 yes I have mine set for 15
but that doesn’t explain why when I turn it on for the first time in the morning they already have 20 calls I don’t get that

[Ray]

@sdetweil I have it set for 15 minutes

[MarcLandis]

@Ray said in MMM-OpenWeatherForecast:

@wishmaster270 yes I have mine set for 15
but that doesn’t explain why when I turn it on for the first time in the morning they already have 20 calls I don’t get that

What means “turn it on”? Boot up the Pi or turn on the screen?

[Ray]

@MarcLandis sorry for the misunderstanding there
when I activate my mirror and it checks the weather

[MarcLandis]

@Ray updates are still done even the screen is off.

[Ray]

@MarcLandis yes I get that and I totally understand that

but that’s not my question maybe it can’t be answered
my magic mirror is on a computer when I boot the computer up in the morning it will automatically start magic mirror usually the first thing it checks is the weather
if I turn the computer off there should be no more calls to the weather app

so my original question would be if I turn my computer on first thing in the morning and I go to the weather app why does it say I already have 20 calls that’s my real question

[wishmaster270]

@Ray
Hi, I do not know your set up nor do I know when the “in one day” changes to the next day at OpenWeaterMap.
I use the API Key exactly in this module and only have one instance of the mirror running…
I just checked my statistics at OpenWeaterMap and I do have at about 112 calls a day. Which is correct as my mirror is shutdown between 11:30pm and 5am.

Maybe it is a matter of your timezone and calls of the last day are counted in the current one.

What does your statistic look like

https://home.openweathermap.org/statistics/onecall_30

Edit:
And one small side note. Even if you use different keys the calls a summarized per account

[Ray]

@wishmaster270
I totally agree with everything you said I do have two keys but I only use one
the only thing I can think of is maybe the 20 calls are a carryover from the previous day that’s the only thing I can think of
I shut down my mirror around 7 o’clock at night

and when I started up in the morning around 8 o’clock in the morning I would think there would only be one call
but when I looked it said there were 20
so like I said maybe it’s a carryover from the previous day

so tomorrow morning I’m going to conduct a test
I will check the website first to see if there any calls there before I start my mirror

if you want I will let you know

[Ray]

@wishmaster270
so I found out what was going on with the calls being counted when my magic mirror wasn’t even up and running

so here’s what I found out
I have MMM-OpenWeatherForecast checking the temperature in two time zones
and one of the time zone I have set requestDelay: 250
this was done before the upgrade to 3.0 call abb
since then I have deleted one of the time zones
but forgot to delete requestDelay: 250 an error in my part

it turns out that the One Call API 3.0 was counting all the calls in that 250
in version 2.5 we didn’t have to worry about that

[sdetweil]

@Ray yes, a call is a call. 250 is WAY TOO OFTEN for weather that doesn’t changed but every 10-15 minutes

[Ray]

@sdetweil
I just thought I’d throw it out there in case someone else runs into the same problem

[JohnGalt]

@Ray – Just for the sake of completeness for you or others I will mention here that the provider will count ALL calls, from ALL modules.

As an example I can have this module running for a comprehensive look at my local weather, plus an instance of the default weather module telling me what’s happening with a friend or relatives, plus I’m running MMM-DynamicWeather.

The API will count all the calls from all sources. It would be great if the MM system could pull the data and broadcast it to modules as needed, but that’s not how it works.

[sdetweil]

@JohnGalt the default weather broadcasts it’s data just like calendar does

So the othermodules could use it

[wishmaster270]

Just to make clear.
The requestDelay is only used for the time between the start of the mirror and the first fetch of the data.
For all following the updateInterval in seconds is used.

The module sends is weather info, too. But I think both modules are not capable of use the info provided by notification at the moment

[butchkemper]

@JohnGalt

The api call daily threshold for billing is 1,000. The default setting is to update every 10 minutes and that equals to 144 daily calls.

Butch

[hrjmsh]

@OldGuyBerlin Worked for me, thanks.