This took me a while, so I thought I’d share. Here’s how to add color to the weather icons on for MMM-forecast.io (darksky) module. The same concept applies to other weather modules- just change the module names below:

Edit the file ~/MagicMirror/css/custom.css
and add the following to the bottom:

.MMM-forecast-io .wi-sunrise {
color: #ffd700;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-sunset {
color: #ffa500;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-day-sunny {
color: #ffff00;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-night-showers {
color: #55acee;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-degrees {
color: #415;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-rain {
color: #55acee;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-showers {
color: #55acee;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-night-showers {
color: #55acee;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-night-alt-cloudy-windy {
color: #aaa;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-night-cloudy {
color: #aaa;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-cloudy {
color: #aaa;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-day-cloudy {
color: #aaa;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-cloudy {
color: #aaa;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-cloudy-windy {
color: #aaa;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-showers {
color: #55acee;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-thunderstorm {
color: #ff00ff;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-snow {
color: #fff;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-fog {
color: #999;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-night-clear {
color: #fff;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-night-rain {
color: #55acee;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-night-thunderstorm {
color: #ff00ff;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-night-snow {
color: #fff;
}

.MMM-forecast-io .wi-sunrise {
color: #ffd700;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-sunset {
color: #ffa500;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-day-sunny {
color: #ffff00;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-night-showers {
color: #55acee;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-degrees {
color: #415;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-rain {
color: #55acee;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-showers {
color: #55acee;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-night-showers {
color: #55acee;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-night-alt-cloudy-windy {
color: #aaa;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-night-cloudy {
color: #aaa;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-cloudy {
color: #aaa;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-day-cloudy {
color: #aaa;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-cloudy {
color: #aaa;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-cloudy-windy {
color: #aaa;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-showers {
color: #55acee;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-thunderstorm {
color: #ff00ff;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-snow {
color: #fff;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-fog {
color: #999;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-night-clear {
color: #fff;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-night-rain {
color: #55acee;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-night-thunderstorm {
color: #ff00ff;
}
.MMM-forecast-io .wi-night-snow {
color: #fff;
}

I’m quite sure there’s an answer, but I don’t speak Unix very well.

Another thought- half the fun of a magic mirror is making it! Why not get a good backup of the finished product, and let the kid hack away at it? If it gets mangled too bad, email him your backup files, with a note “you broke it, you fix it”? :)

So DarkSky, and its weather API will be shutting down on 1/1/2023. Expect a large number of weather modules to break and stop updating.

There are a number of alternative weather modules out here. I have one, lots of folks have been hard at work updating others. Please be ready to direct folks coming to the forums with broken modules issues to the right answer.

See also: https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/30/23532275/dark-sky-app-stop-working-january-1st-alternatives

I’ve work on this off & on for over 4 years, thought I’d finally show it off.

The hardware is from a Kano kit that the kids got bored with. It’s a little LCD screen with a Pi mount behind it, all powered by USB. I’ve seen these for sale on Facebook Marketplace for under $100 lately.

The Kano screen is for the kids to see it, I usually see it via a web page on my phone using http://192.168.1.x:8080

I have this connected to 2 google calendars. The idea is to have mine on top, and the kid’s schedule at the bottom. I sometimes put the school lunch menu as daily entries for them.

I’m most proud of the weather half of the screen. I’ve used dmcinnes/MMM-forecast-io weather module, and forked it to add a visual graph of rain, temperature, and wind. I’m very happy with the result.

Module is at: https://github.com/FlatPepsi17/MMM-forecast-io

https://github.com/FlatPepsi17/MMM-WeatherGraph

I have a new weather module with current conditions, rain graph for 48 hours, and a 7 day forecast list.

Sample screenshots showing different configurations:

Basic setup, showing rain & snow:

Metric options, and a 24hr precip graph:

Love data? Turn everything on to see temp, wind speed, humidity, and cloud cover.

Prefer something minimal? Turn off any feature you want.

This module started as a fork of ‘MMM-forecast.io’ by dmcinnes (https://github.com/dmcinnes/MMM-forecast-io), adding many new features and moving to a new data source since DarkSky discontinued API access. (Thanks Apple- so nice of you.)

https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/30/23532275/dark-sky-app-stop-working-january-1st-alternatives

So DarkSky, and its weather API will be shutting down on 1/1/2023. Expect a large number of weather modules to break and stop updating.

There are a number of alternative weather modules out here. I have one, lots of folks have been hard at work updating others. Please be ready to direct folks coming to the forums with broken modules issues to the right answer.

@sdetweil
Just learned that apps using DarkSky end on 1/1/23, but the API is actually on until March 31, 2023

https://blog.darksky.net/

So I’m about 3 months early…

On the android side I’ve seen a number of people just view a webpage from the device. That’s probably the easiest way to go on the iPhone side – just use Safari to browse to server hosted elsewhere.

If you’re looking at having an iPhone host the server, that sounds like ugly development work to me.

For those seeking North American globe views, I have great news - GEOS-16 (aka GEOS-East) is now publishing live color (yes, COLOR) images!

See web site here:
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/GOES16_FullDisk.php

There are a few links for the latest image, depending on the resolution you want. (Watch out -many of the web site’s URLs are date and time specific) I’m using: https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES16/ABI/FD/GEOCOLOR/678x678.jpg

Until a proper GIT update is done on this module, you can edit your setup to get this new image. In the folder:
/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Globe
Edit the file: MMM-Globe.js

Find the lines with ‘centralAmericaDiscNat’: , and put the new URL in there. In my case, I used:

		'centralAmericaDiscNat': 'https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES16/ABI/FD/GEOCOLOR/678x678.jpg'

Do note that the code has 2 sections for different resolutions- you may need to update both.

Enjoy!

@ironman_DK Not sure what my problem was, but rebooting once or twice seem to solve it. I’m wondering if there was some installed module that didn’t get initialized or something.

When in doubt reboot.

Pushed out a fix today…

Most weather sources give snow in the liquid equivalent, thus you need to multiply by 10 for snow.

Turns out OpenWeather does this math for us, and I was over estimating the snow by a factor of 10. Today I’m expecting 1.6" of snow & ice, module was saying 16" - prompting today’s fix!

Fixed.

Also worth noting that OpenWeatherMap has an API that is really close in format. They have a guide on migrating:

https://openweathermap.org/darksky-openweather-3

@sdetweil
Just learned that apps using DarkSky end on 1/1/23, but the API is actually on until March 31, 2023

https://blog.darksky.net/

So I’m about 3 months early…

So DarkSky, and its weather API will be shutting down on 1/1/2023. Expect a large number of weather modules to break and stop updating.

There are a number of alternative weather modules out here. I have one, lots of folks have been hard at work updating others. Please be ready to direct folks coming to the forums with broken modules issues to the right answer.

See also: https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/30/23532275/dark-sky-app-stop-working-january-1st-alternatives

https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/30/23532275/dark-sky-app-stop-working-january-1st-alternatives

So DarkSky, and its weather API will be shutting down on 1/1/2023. Expect a large number of weather modules to break and stop updating.

There are a number of alternative weather modules out here. I have one, lots of folks have been hard at work updating others. Please be ready to direct folks coming to the forums with broken modules issues to the right answer.

@FlatPepsi So I finally added an option I wanted, but never got around to doing. I originally wanted this module to let me know if I needed to get up early and shovel the driveway… which means I want daily precipitation totals handy.

Now it’s available as an option!

The latest code can be found on GitHub. Let me know if you find any bugs. Precipitation totals use inches or mm/cm, following the existing Imperial/Metric setting.

Enjoy!

https://github.com/FlatPepsi17/MMM-WeatherGraph

@sdetweil Every search I’ve done only pulls up modules to display bitcoin price from 3rd parties. I’m looking for a way to pull data from my own bitcoin node & blockchain data - which I’ve yet to see anyone do with a module.

If you run across one, I’d love to see it.

@Bobrae Not currently - I’ll have to look into that.

I may be doing this all wrong, so feel free to point out where I’m off.

I want to send an RCP call to my own BTC node, and I can do it in Postman. I’ve tried using a “getjsonp()” call, but I’m not even sure if that’s the right method.

If there’s a good example module out there that already calls the BTC Code API, I’d love to play with it.

Any advice?

@sdetweil
Good question. I haven’t tried it- but I’d imagine it would work. Biggest thing to watch is hitting the API’s limit for pulling forecast data, so turn that down accordingly.