Default Weather Broke After Update

DarrenHill

I’ve just updated from 2.28 to 2.30 using the script, and it looks to have broken the default weather module.
I run it twice on my display, and one (top-left) is now giving “invalid date” for the date and NaN for the temperature.
The other (top-right) is not showing up at all.

This is the config snippet for their config (api key redacted):

        {
            module: "weather",
            position: "top_left",
            config: {
                type: "current",
                location: "Crawley",
                locationID: "2652053", //ID from http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/city.list.json.gz; unzip the gz file and find your city
                apiKey: "redacted",
                units: "metric",
                degreeLabel: true,
                showHumidity: true,
                tableClass: "medium"
                }
        },
        {
            module: "weather",
            position: "top_right",
            config: {
                type: "forecast",
                appendLocationNameToHeader: false,
                location: "Crawley",
                locationID: "2652053", //ID from http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/city.list.json.gz; unzip the gz file and find your city
                apiKey: "redacted",
                units: "metric",
                degreeLabel: true,
                fade: false,
                colored: true,
                tableClass: "forecast"
                }
        },

MagicMirror-error.log shows this:

[2025-01-05 12:50:19.350] ^[[31m[ERROR]^[[39m ^[[31mError fetching feed: Error fetching feed: 401^[[39m
[2025-01-05 12:51:17.281] ^[[31m[ERROR]^[[39m ^[[31mError fetching feed: Error fetching feed: 401^[[39m
[2025-01-05 12:52:17.295] ^[[31m[ERROR]^[[39m ^[[31mError fetching feed: Error fetching feed: 401^[[39m
[2025-01-05 12:53:16.885] ^[[31m[ERROR]^[[39m ^[[31mError fetching feed: Error fetching feed: 401^[[39m
[2025-01-05 12:54:16.947] ^[[31m[ERROR]^[[39m ^[[31mError fetching feed: Error fetching feed: 401^[[39m
[2025-01-05 12:55:16.976] ^[[31m[ERROR]^[[39m ^[[31mError fetching feed: Error fetching feed: 401^[[39m
[2025-01-05 12:56:16.907] ^[[31m[ERROR]^[[39m ^[[31mError fetching feed: Error fetching feed: 401^[[39m
[2025-01-05 12:57:16.889] ^[[31m[ERROR]^[[39m ^[[31mError fetching feed: Error fetching feed: 401^[[39m

That’s after stopping the mirror and clearing the log. But looking in the old (massive) log, that error has been there for months.

Is this a known issue, or anything else I can provide to help fix it?

It’s running on a Pi3 (fully updated with apt), and the Mirror upgrade was done using the recommended script.
Rebooting and restarting doesn’t help either, to eliminate a basic…

sdetweil

@DarrenHill we changed the module code to match the new api. (which is why it stopped working) nothing new coming.

other providers are available. see the doc. i don’t know which ones work in which geography, or their requirements. (apikey…)

sdetweil

@DarrenHill yes, openweather (the default provider if you dont change it) has changed their business business model

they shut down their old free api and switched to their new (3yr old) api, which requires a credit card backing, and a free number of api calls (1000/day), so effectively free.

but this required changes to our code

so, you have to get a new apikey
and location/locationID no longer work, have to use lat/lon
and the custom module title doesnt work , as they don’t return the location name anymore

so much fun

DarrenHill

@sdetweil Thanks Sam - I recall they were changing but wasn’t sure if that was the root cause here, given it worked prior to the 2.30 upgrade (ie this morning).

Is it worth doing anything for the moment (getting the new api key etc), or is the module code going to change and so maybe better to wait?

Or I see the module can do other providers - is there a recommended one for the UK (as I think the met office here are also screwing around with their API if I remember well)?

sdetweil

@DarrenHill we changed the module code to match the new api. (which is why it stopped working) nothing new coming.

other providers are available. see the doc. i don’t know which ones work in which geography, or their requirements. (apikey…)

sdetweil

@DarrenHill said in Default Weather Broke After Update:

given it worked prior to the 2.30 upgrade (ie this morning).

they told us in no uncertain terms the old api was dead(stopped working) in January, June and October…

DarrenHill

@sdetweil OK thanks - clear.

I’ll have a quick play with the other providers, although the met office are also changing their API in September so probably one to also avoid if future-proofing is desirable.

As you say, so much fun…

Edited to add - swapped to the met office data hub one (not the main one, as that’s the one that’s expiring soonish) and was a fairly painless changeover after getting a new account and API key there. All good now.