MMM-3Day-Forecast

OR

This a module for the MagicMirror. This module shows a 3 day forecast (today, tomorrow and the day after) using the Open Weather API. It displays the overall weather condition, highest temperature, likely-hood of rain, average humidity, highest windspeed and its direction forecast. Todays forecasts the conditions over the next few hours and the Tomorrow and Day After forecasts are based on the conditions around the middle of the day. This is designed to compliment the MMM-Weather-Now module.

Note: This module used to use Open Weather but they reduced the free calls :-( As of May 2024 the module has migrated to using the Weather API. The only thing you should need to change in the config is your api_key (See below).

Installation

1. Navigate into your MagicMirror's modules folder and execute git clone https://github.com/nigel-daniels/MMM-3Day-Forecast. A new folder MMM-3Day-Forecast will appear, navigate into it.
2. Execute npm install to install the node dependencies.

Config

The entry in config.js can include the following options:

Option	Description
api_key	Required This is the API key you need to use to request weather data from the OpenWeather site. Details on how to request an API key can be found here Type: string Default value: null
lat	This is the latitude of the location you want to get the weather for. Type: number Default value: 0.0
lon	This is the longitude of the location you want to get the weather for. Type: number Default value: 0.0
units	This is the units you want the weather reporting in. Type string Use M for metric OR I for imperial. Default value: M
lang	This is the two character country code for the language you want the weather in, see all the supported codes here.* Type string Default value en
horizontalView	This switches the look to use a more compact and horizontal view. Type boolean Default value false
interval	How often the weather is updated. Type: integer Default value: 900000 // 15 minutes

* This module itself only currently supports da, en, fr, de, it, nb, zh-tw, pt and nl for the text 'Day after', 'Kph' and 'Mph'. Thanks for all of the translations. If you have translations for these please send them over and I'll add your language to the set I can support :)

Here is an example of an entry in config.js

{
    module:     'MMM-3Day-Forecast',
    position:   'top_left',
	config: {
		api_key:    'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
		lat:        37.3397352,
		lon:        -121.894958,
		units:      'M',
		lang:       'en',
		interval:   900000
	}
},

Dependencies

Installed via npm install:

• request
• date-fns
• date-fns-tz

Notes

I hope you like this module, I know it duplicates many other weather modules, however I missed my home-brew mirrors weather information so I recreated it for MM2. Feel free to submit pull requests or post issues and I'll do my best to respond.

Thanks To...

• Michael Teeuw for the MagicMirror2 framework that made this module possible.
• WeatherAPI for the helpful guides and information they publish on their API.