Spaceweather stopped updating 3/31/26

[swaldick]

Hello,

I have a few different Allsky setups running and I noticed that my spaceweather.json information stopped updating on 3/31/26. Both setups use other modules as well and those are working as expected (open weather, dew heater module, etc).

Any info or insight would be greatly appreciated.

Scott

[jcauthen78]

Confirming - mine stopped updating as well. Looking at the debug, it's showing:
spaceweather 0.25 Module spaceweather failed on line 199 - 1

It appears NOAA changed the way they serve out their JSON files. I learned tonight that it can serve out different versions based on how its being pulled? kinda interesting. @swaldick - here's what I managed to fix up - there were a few bugs I found, as well as updated some of the error handling, so if one fails, the successful pulls work... in theory.
allsky_spaceweather.py
Lives in: /opt/allsky/modules/allsky_spaceweather.py

It has been a long time since I've used GitHub, so I'm not sure how to go in and put in a pull request. @Alex-developer , @EricClaeys , mind giving me a refresher? I attached the updated python file here for others to test.

[Alex-developer]

All updated Jim

[swaldick]

Jim,

Thanks for the response and information. I received the same debug line as you reported above. I took your allsky_spaceweather.py script and put it where the old one resides. Not sure if I have a different configuration but on my setup I found the script in the following path:

/allsky-modules/allsky_spaceweather/allsky_spaceweather.py

and the json file in:

allsky/config/overlay/extra/spaceweather.json

I renamed the current failing allsky_spaceweather.py to allsky_spaceweather_old.py and
copied the allsky_spaceweather.py file you posted from above in the same folder

Nothing seems to be changing or updating. I stopped and restarted allsky, then power cycled the pi's but still nothing. I also unenabled and reenabled the module in hopes of something triggering but nothing changed.

I have two setups that are not the latest version, but they just stopped updating on 3/31/26 with no error message. The new setup I just loaded on 4/2/26 is on the current allsky version. All installs are on rpi5's. The new install originally gave me the same debug error you reported above. After I put the updated script in place it is now returning:

Module spaceweather failed on line 175 - Expecting ',' delimiter: line 1 column 17817 (char(17816)
Module spaceweather failed on line 175 - Expecting ',' delimiter: line 1 column 17818 (char(17817)
Module spaceweather failed on line 199 - 1

Not sure if I am properly following how to correct what is happening.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Scott

[jcauthen78]

@swaldick , I don't have any experience with the newest version of AllSky yet - hopefully this spring I'll get around to installing it, but for now, I can only assist with the older version.

On the older setups, The running user modules live in: /opt/allsky/modules/
The path you're mentioning, /allsky-modules/allsky_spaceweather/allsky_spaceweather.py sounds like where they're initially downloaded to from GitHub prior to installation. When you run the install.sh in the allsky-modules, it places the selected modules into the /opt/allsky/modules/ folder and ensures the dependencies are installed with it.

My suggestion:
go through the instructions for installing the modules as provided on GitHub. Re-git the installer files, re-install with the install.sh- this will ensure they're installed in the correct locations. I'm pretty sure the devs have it setup so it'll put them where they belong regardless of last year's core version, or the most recent version. git clone https://github.com/AllskyTeam/allsky-modules.git

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OR: If you don't mind getting your hands dirty - you can try the manual method on the older systems, via the SSH command line. You can do the following:
1: mv /opt/allsky/modules/allsky_spaceweather.py /opt/allsky/modules/allsky_spaceweather_broken.py or whatever you want the old version to be (if you even want to keep it).
2: Since you already saved the updated allsky_spaceweather.py, you should be able to run the installer again, re-select it, and it should install.
2b: If you want to do it manually: cp /home/pi/allsky-modules/allsky_spaceweather/allsky_spaceweather.py /opt/allsky/modules/allsky_spaceweather.py. This is assuming your allsky-modules folder lives in the typical /home/pi/ path.

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I'd still suggest the first path though, the installer is built to be pretty painless and the Devs did a great job with it! :)

/jim

[Alex-developer]

I have added Jims new code to the master repo and merged the changes into the v2025.xx.xx branch so please reinstall whichever version you are using and all will be good

Alex

[swaldick]

Jim / Alex - Thank you!

[swaldick]

Hello,

Wonder if there have been further changes in the field indicators. I use magnetic field, and KP index. The KP index is showing up as usual but the magnetic field indicator and value has disappear for the last several days.

Any help or insight is much appreciated.

Best regards,

Scott