jeffjetton/retrofeed

Use a Raspberry Pi to display weather, news, and other information, vintage-style, on a composite monitor

retrofeed's Issues

ValueError: time data '2023 9 Apr 2:52 pm EDT' does not match format '%Y %d %b %I:%M %p %Z'

Getting the following error when running retrofeed on python 3, Windows 11 or ubuntu server:

[CHECKING FOR WEATHER UPDATES...]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\srvr01\retrofeed-main\retrofeed.py", line 395, in <module>
    main()
  File "C:\Users\srvr01\retrofeed-main\retrofeed.py", line 370, in main
    wx = show_weather(wx)
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\srvr01\retrofeed-main\retrofeed.py", line 214, in show_weather
    wx = weather.get_weather(WX_LAT, WX_LON, WX_LOCATION)
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\srvr01\retrofeed-main\weather.py", line 83, in get_weather
    dt_object = dt.datetime.strptime(dt_string, '%Y %d %b %I:%M %p %Z')   #31 Jan 3:53 pm CST
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\srvr01\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\_strptime.py", line 568, in _strptime_datetime
    tt, fraction, gmtoff_fraction = _strptime(data_string, format)
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\srvr01\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\_strptime.py", line 349, in _strptime
    raise ValueError("time data %r does not match format %r" %
ValueError: time data '2023 9 Apr 2:52 pm EDT' does not match format '%Y %d %b %I:%M %p %Z'

Small error w/ time data format

ValueError: time data '2023 13 Feb 6:53 pm CST' does not match format '%Y %d %b %I:%M %p %Z'

I ran the .py once, and it worked - but every time after I get the above... will dig in a bit - this is awesome, I'm just starting to play around with it. Thanks!!

Install and Launch instructions

I'm working on getting this to work on a P Zero-W using Raspbian Lite and wanted to capture issues and approach.

I'm currently stuck on how to run the scripts. I changed the permissions to allow to 711 but am stuck from there.

Here's the instructions I have so far.

To make troubleshooting easier, I'm working an approach that connects to an HDMI monitor fist, get it working and then connect to an analog display once the basics are working. I expect there may be many who would like to get this running but don't have an analog display available.

Download and open Raspberry Pi Imager to Windows desktop to provision microSD card with OS

• Insert MicroSD Card
• Click the Operating System button to select an OS
• Select Raspberry PI OS Lite (32-bit)
• Click on Storage Button to select the MicroSD
• Configure System Settings via the Imager GUI Settings button
• Set the hostname
• Enable SSH
• Set Username and Password
• Configure WIFI (only supports DHCP)

Plug in a monitor and keyboard or connect via SSH
Log In

Update the OS and Install Git

• Sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get upgrade
• sudo apt-get install git
• git clone https://github.com/jeffjetton/retrofeed
• cd retrofeed
• chmod 711 *.py //Change permissions so the scripts run

ap_news.py formatting changed??

My ap_news.py only returns "NEWSFEED UNAVAILABLE". I've been debugging and apnews.com doesn't seem to return text with the old "headline:" and other prompts ap_news.py looks for...

Has anyone fixed this on their own yet??? Or, should I post my current [failed] attempts:

changed ./segments/spot-the-station.py;
#LINE 70 changed to:
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# Assuming the input is always "{ts '...'}"
date_string_clean = date_string[5:-2]
date_time = dt.datetime.strptime(date_string_clean, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') - utc_diff
-----

added to debug lines to ./segments/ap_news.py;
#LINE 86 - #Comment out when done!!!
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        #DEBUGGING:
with open("debug.txt", "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    f.write(str(response.status_code) + "\n")
    f.write(response.text[:1000] + "\n\n")
    f.write(response.text)
-----

changed get_headlines function in ./segments/ap_news.py;
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def get_headline(self, s):
    pos_start = s.find('<a class="Link "')
    if pos_start < 0:
        return None
    pos_start = s.find('>', pos_start) + 1  # Find the next '>' after the start position
    pos_end = s.find('</a>', pos_start)     # Find the closing tag '</a>'
    if pos_end < 0:
        return None
    headline = s[pos_start:pos_end]
    return self.d.strip_tags(self.d.clean_chars(headline))
-----
changed code in ./segments/ap_news.py;
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                #if headline is not None and summary is not None and headline.lower().find('top stories ') < 0:
                    #self.data['items'].append({'headline':headline, 'summary':summary})
                    if headline is not None and headline.lower().find('top stories ') < 0:
                        if summary is None:
                            summary = "Summary not available."
                        self.data['items'].append({'headline':headline, 'summary':summary})
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ap_news.py is still broke - but we did fix the spot-the..py. 
reinstalled original ap_news.py - must fix later.