MMM-rain-forecast

Charley

Description

Hello MagicMirror users in the Netherlands,

I have made an update rainforecast module based on buienradar.
This module is very fast and uses no external scipts. The graphics can be set to different colours.
The expected rain is shown on a timeline.

Screenshots

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[card:SpoturDeal/MMM-rain-forecast]

lavolp3

Great!
Will try it out asap.
To our German friends: This also works in Germany not too far from the border.

cirdan

great work Charley.

Was thinking about rewriting that part with the external sparkline. Got a sudden error on my implementation a few days ago (xmlhttprequest on the sparkline invocation and load errors 404 on the jquery). Never did anything with SVG. So was heading for some coding this weekend :-)

This is what I like about open source 👍

Charley

Hello Cirdan.

Buienradar changed the URL. It is now gpsgadget.buienradar.nl

That’s why the data stopped.

In my graph I included the times and by not using the sparkline plugin there is no problem with not loading or slowing down.

cirdan

Changed the url in my codebase, and everything works like a charm again. Tnx for pointing it out. Still love the svg part 😀

Charley

Hello Cirdan,

If you are interested to look into the SVG part this is where I found some of the information

Creating Interactive Graphs With SVG

If you like to take it a step further

How to Make Charts with SVG

Let me know if you need any help.

Charley

Today I have updated the module.
By request the width of the graph have been decreased by about 25%
The graph line has been updated to fit the canvas better according to received data.

Charley

The MMM-rain-forecast module has been updated. The brightness level was too low on some mirrors. The size of the graphics matches the module.
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teresab

Hallo,
I have a Problem.
I want to use this module, but I live in Germany and I will need the rain forecast for my hometown in Germany. How can I change the Code? With the coordinations (latitude/longitude) of my city, ist doesn‘t work…
Please help me.

cirdan

@teresab
Hi there,

the source I use for the rainforecast uses a dutch rain radar. The data provided is limited to roughly the size of the netherlands. Though some german users near the dutch border are able to use the module

So unless you are located close to the dutch border, the module is not going to work for you. Maybe a german implementation exist, or you could build one yourself based on the dutch code and a german rain radar provider?

Slightly offtopic. Currently i’m testing a rebuild of the module, to be released soon

Regards cirdan

MajorC

So now I have to find a good soure for German rain data.

lavolp3

@MajorC You could try my MMM-Buienalarm. I just recently integrated the climacell API. Not as good as the dutch service but available in all Germany (and Europe.
Care to try it out?

jermaine171993

Hey guys, does anyone have the latitude and longitude for Dallas Texas, I’ve tried the setting recommendations from the city list text file and many others, all i get is “no data”, but if i set the setting to default it collects the data no problem, please let me know if im missing something,

    "id": 4684904,
    "name": "Dallas County",
    "state": "TX",
    "country": "US",
    "coord": {
        "lon": -96.783607,
        "lat": 32.7668

Thanks in advance,

sdetweil

@jermaine171993 got the numbers reversed,

lat is left/right of england
long is up/down from equator

put address in google maps, drill to where u want
lat/lng are in the url

Wenike

@jermaine171993 The data for this particular module is based in the Netherlands and the original developer stated it was for the Netherlands. I’m suspecting it won’t display data for anywhere not in the Netherlands. (I really want to use this too here in the US).

lavolp3

@Wenike @jermaine171993 I’m working on somthing similar based on the climacell API (providing worldwide data). Will be ready in a few days.
Currently working on https://github.com/lavolp3/MMM-Buienalarm/tree/climacell

Will move to a new rep soon.

Wenike

@lavolp3 Awesome, please let me know when you do have one and I’ll even offer testing if you want.

jermaine171993

@lavolp3 just wondering if your done with the followng module ?

Can you provide the config for dallas Taxas US cant get this to work with my mirror ?

lavolp3

@jermaine171993 I’m working on it but have to say that the climacell data is very disappointing for Germany, where I live.
I will publish it so you can test out Texas :-)

lavolp3

@jermaine171993 @Wenike
I have finished the module, would you mind trying that out?
https://github.com/lavolp3/MMM-RainCast

As said, it uses the climacell api and I’m currently not satisfied with the output.
Openweathermap has a minutely output for 1 hour, that might be another option.