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Dan Emrick

@dsemrick

My problem today is different. I successfully used bolt to install PiWeatherRock on my RPi. I can configure with the web interface, but the app itself doesn't start. Output of systemctl status PiWeatherRock says Process: 1901 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/pwr-ui -c /home/pi/piweatherrock-config.json (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE). If I run pwr-ui from command line I see references to darksky. Should those be there?

chrism583

@chrism583

That's the exact error I reported having.

csawaya

@csawaya

I'm facing the same issue.

chrism583

@chrism583

My API usage is through the roof as well. Already hit my 1,000 calls for the day whereas I usually average ~300.

Dan Emrick

@dsemrick

OK, I feel silly. For other reasons, I restarted the "old" display and to my surprise it started working meaning DarkSky came back - for how long no one can say. The important thing is that I use the "new" web config page for the newer system to enter my API Key from DarkSky instead of ClimaCell and low and behold the new install is working. I mistakenly thought I should be using the new source. As I said, I feel silly.

chrism583

@chrism583

After reading that yours was back up I powered mine on(no sense in wasting watts) and it's working fine. Where we differ @dsemrick is I never changed my API over from DarkSky. Weird.

chrism583

@chrism583

Playing around with it a bit more and if I make my location less exact in either the web interface and piweatherrock-config.json it works. So if I change my latitude from 32.779167 to 32 and do the same with my longitude and reboot then it works fine. After a successful boot I went into the web interface and corrected my lat/lon to be more accurate and it seems to be working fine. Nothing abnormal in the web logs.

deepcore2

@deepcore2

@dam

@dsemrick @chrism583 Also check if you have all the needed png file in both icon subdirs. I seem to remember winmd.png was missing from my setup initially. Tat cause a restart with my system as long as it was windy :)

chrism583

@chrism583

It does look like I'm missing some icons. Is there a repository where I can download the missing icons? It does seem weird that multiple people in different locations all had the same error at the same time though.

deepcore2

@deepcore2

PiWeatherRock only uses 11 icons. I was missing wind.png. https://trigger.home.xs4all.nl/hd_icons.zip Is a full set graphical icons.

if icon == 'clear-day':
            icon_path = 'icons/{}/clear.png'.format(size)
        elif icon == 'clear-night':
            icon_path = 'icons/{}/nt_clear.png'.format(size)
        elif icon == 'rain':
            icon_path = 'icons/{}/rain.png'.format(size)
        elif icon == 'snow':
            icon_path = 'icons/{}/snow.png'.format(size)
        elif icon == 'sleet':
            icon_path = 'icons/{}/sleet.png'.format(size)
        elif icon == 'wind':
            icon_path = 'icons/alt_icons/{}/wind.png'.format(size)
        elif icon == 'fog':
            icon_path = 'icons/{}/fog.png'.format(size)
        elif icon == 'cloudy':
            icon_path = 'icons/{}/cloudy.png'.format(size)
        elif icon == 'partly-cloudy-day':
            icon_path = 'icons/{}/partlycloudy.png'.format(size)
        elif icon == 'partly-cloudy-night':
            icon_path = 'icons/{}/nt_partlycloudy.png'.format(size)
        else:
            icon_path = 'icons/{}/unknown.png'.format(size)

csawaya

@csawaya

I successfully installed 1.4.0, though when I enter my API and everything else and click on update, it tells me "Update Successful" but nothing happens. Anyone have an idea about this?

dronix27

@dronix27

It happened again. API requests per day exceeded. chrism583 some there

csawaya

@csawaya

Hey guy. Does Climacell API work on PiWeatherRock or not yet?

deepcore2

@deepcore2

Not yet.

csawaya

@csawaya

Well I feel dumb, lol. Tried practically everything and was wondering why it wasn't working for me. Ah, gained some knowledge along the way at least. :)

Thanks for the heads up.

deepcore2

@deepcore2

It's not just a case of putting in the api key. The software needs to call another source and translate the returned values to something to be used insie the code. So far that is there for darksky. @genebean is working on the climacell code as far as i know.

deepcore2

@deepcore2

On a sidenote... I hope Climacell has a better prediction model than DarkSky :( For me DarkSky sucks. The version before DarkSky, can't remember what that used, was significantly better also.

deepcore2

@deepcore2

csawaya

@csawaya

Yeah it's understandable. I'm fairly new to all this, didn't mind the struggle and several failed attempts, just happy in my case it was a matter of API key.

Haha, pouring down hard there.

ypsiscooter

@ypsiscooter

I think I'm missing something here... I'm trying to do the migration, and I've even changed my pi name to mylittlepi, but I'm getting a failed on mylittlepi.local, timeout after 10 seconds connecting to mylittlepi.local error after entering my password and "started on mylittlepi.local." I have my Win10 machine on the same network as my pi, and I can teamviewer/VNC into the pi so I know it's online, but I have no idea what is going on here. Any help or advice would be appreciated.

csawaya

@csawaya

@ypsiscooter when connecting via SSH try connecting with the I.P Address. On the Pi type in terminal 'Hostname -I' then instead on connecting via mylittlepi.local connect via the IP, that worked for me when I was facing that issue.

ypsiscooter

@ypsiscooter

Heh... @csawaya, I certainly appreciate your help, and I would have been up a creek without it, but... I didn't think to make sure SSH was enabled until I saw you straight up say "SSH." Once I turned it on... Everything worked from the instructions as intended. Thank you. It's always the most obvious answer... "Did you turn it on?" Hi, this is my first day working with a computer.

danielc123

@danielc123

HI team, I just want to share with you a fork of this great cooperative job.
I have move some things around, translate it to Spanish and Add Google Calendar integration to show the next 3 events from your Google Calendar
Here is the Repo: https://github.com/danielc123/gcalendar-weather/tree/GCalendar
And a Picture.
I have to let you know that I am not able to give support of the code, I am very sorry, I have very little time.

jerrywmartin

@jerrywmartin

Where can I find information on the PiWeatherRock configuration page? I can't seem to make sense of the pause, delay and frequency settings.

chrism583

@chrism583

@jerrywmartin I'm not finding a doc on github or the technicalissues site to link you to but maybe I can help. The pause value on the Daily and Hourly screens is how many seconds that screen will display. The info delay controls how many seconds to wait between displaying that screen with a pause of how many seconds to show the Info screen. So, for example, I choose not to display the info screen at all and to have my Daily and Hourly cycle every minute. So mine looks like the screenshot above.

Does that help at all?

jerrywmartin

@jerrywmartin

@chrism583 Yes that helps but what is the frequency setting?

chrism583

@chrism583

@jerrywmartin That's how many seconds between calls out to Dark Sky for a weather update. A free account gets 1,000 calls per day so to max that out you would set 86 in your Frequency field. Personally I call every 300 seconds which puts me at ~288 calls per day or one every 5 minutes which seems to be more than sufficient.

jerrywmartin

@jerrywmartin

@chrism583 Great! Thanks again.

deepcore2

@deepcore2

Dead project??? Hope not... Since I returned home from holiday, I noticed the software crashes every couple of minutes and restarts...

'''Aug 26 12:39:54 rockpie pwr-ui[5798]: pygame 1.9.4.post1
Aug 26 12:39:54 rockpie pwr-ui[5798]: Hello from the pygame community. https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html
Aug 26 12:39:54 rockpie pwr-ui[5798]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Aug 26 12:39:54 rockpie pwr-ui[5798]: File "/usr/local/bin/pwr-ui", line 26, in <module>
Aug 26 12:39:54 rockpie pwr-ui[5798]: main()
Aug 26 12:39:54 rockpie pwr-ui[5798]: File "/usr/local/bin/pwr-ui", line 22, in main
Aug 26 12:39:54 rockpie pwr-ui[5798]: runner.main(config)
Aug 26 12:39:54 rockpie pwr-ui[5798]: File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/piweatherrock/runner.py", line 83, in main
Aug 26 12:39:54 rockpie pwr-ui[5798]: self.screen_switcher()
Aug 26 12:39:54 rockpie pwr-ui[5798]: File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/piweatherrock/runner.py", line 201, in screen_switcher
Aug 26 12:39:54 rockpie pwr-ui[5798]: self.hourly.disp_hourly(self.my_weather_rock)
Aug 26 12:39:54 rockpie pwr-ui[5798]: File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/piweatherrock/plugin_weather_hourly/init.py", line 51, in disp_hourly
Aug 26 12:39:54 rockpie pwr-ui[5798]: this_hour, this_hour_string, multiplier)
Aug 26 12:39:54 rockpie pwr-ui[5798]: File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/piweatherrock/plugin_weather_common/init.py", line 423, in display_subwindow
Aug 26 12:39:54 rockpie pwr-ui[5798]: self.icon_mapping(data.icon, self.icon_size)).convert_alpha()
Aug 26 12:39:54 rockpie pwr-ui[5798]: pygame.error: Couldn't open /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/piweatherrock/plugin_weather_common/icons/alt_icons/64/wind.png
Aug 26 12:39:54 rockpie systemd[1]: PiWeatherRock.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Aug 26 12:39:54 rockpie systemd[1]: PiWeatherRock.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Aug 26 12:39:59 rockpie systemd[1]: PiWeatherRock.service: Service RestartSec=5s expired, scheduling restart.
Aug 26 12:39:59 rockpie systemd[1]: PiWeatherRock.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 352.
Aug 26 12:39:59 rockpie systemd[1]: Stopped PiWeatherRock Service.
Aug 26 12:39:59 rockpie systemd[1]: Started PiWeatherRock Service.
'''

Gene Liverman

@genebean

Hello everyone. I wrote this up to try and explain disappearing: https://beanbag.technicalissues.us/burnout-sucks/ Life is super busy right now and I’m simply not ready yet to dive back in, but I wanted y’all to know.

deepcore2

@deepcore2

When I just read the message, I noticed it apparently was missing an image file... Fixed that at least.

Hi @genebean Get well soon!

chrism583

@chrism583

@genebean Times are stressful enough without adding burnout to the list. Take care of yourself.

Gene Liverman

@genebean

Thanks @chrism583

chrism583

@chrism583

Is anybody else seeing these question marks on theirs? Going on a few days now. I'm assuming something with DarkSky went...dark.

deepcore2

@deepcore2

Nope, all normal here.

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