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Unknown weather type: ${this.config.type}

Error message

Unknown weather type: ${this.config.type}

What it means

The WeatherAPI.com provider validates its configured weather type at startup in #validateConfig. Only "hourly", "daily" and "current" are supported; a config of "forecast" is auto-rewritten to "daily" before the check. Any other value (typo, wrong provider keyword, missing type) throws this Error during initialize.

Source

Thrown at defaultmodules/weather/providers/weatherapi.js:58

			this.fetcher.startPeriodicFetch();
		}
	}

	stop () {
		if (this.fetcher) {
			this.fetcher.clearTimer();
		}
	}

	#validateConfig () {
		this.config.type = `${this.config.type ?? ""}`.trim().toLowerCase();

		if (this.config.type === "forecast") {
			this.config.type = "daily";
		}

		if (!["hourly", "daily", "current"].includes(this.config.type)) {
			throw new Error(`Unknown weather type: ${this.config.type}`);
		}

		if (!this.config.apiKey || `${this.config.apiKey}`.trim() === "") {
			throw new Error("apiKey is required");
		}

		if (!Number.isFinite(this.config.lat) || !Number.isFinite(this.config.lon)) {
			throw new Error("Latitude and longitude are required");
		}
	}

	#initializeFetcher () {
		const url = this.#getUrl();

		this.fetcher = new HTTPFetcher(url, {
			reloadInterval: this.config.updateInterval,
			headers: { "Cache-Control": "no-cache" },
			logContext: "weatherprovider.weatherapi"

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Solutions

1. Set weatherProvider: "weatherapi" config type to one of "current", "hourly", "daily" (or "forecast", which is accepted and treated as daily).
2. Check for typos/case: values are compared exactly, lowercase.
3. If migrating from another provider, map its type vocabulary to weatherapi's hourly/daily/current.
4. Ensure the type property is actually defined in the module config and not overridden by another module.

Example fix

// before
config: {
  weatherProvider: "weatherapi",
  type: "forecast5day"
}
// after
config: {
  weatherProvider: "weatherapi",
  type: "daily"
}

const ALLOWED = ["current", "hourly", "daily", "forecast"];
if (!ALLOWED.includes(config.type)) {
  throw new Error(`weatherapi: type must be one of ${ALLOWED.join(", ")}, got ${JSON.stringify(config.type)}`);
}

function isValidWeatherType(t) {
  return typeof t === "string" && ["hourly", "daily", "current"].includes(t);
}

When it happens

Trigger: config.type is set to anything other than "hourly", "daily", "current" (or "forecast", which is normalized to "daily") when the module initializes — e.g. type: "Forecast", type: "weekly", or type omitted so it is undefined.

Common situations: Copy-pasting a config from another weather provider (weathergov uses "forecast"; openmeteo/other modules use different vocab), typos or wrong capitalization, forgetting the type field entirely so undefined fails the includes() check.

Understand the failure class

Background: "Invalid value" and "allowed values are" config errors: what your library rejected and how to fix it — this error's family across 41 libraries.

Related errors

• Latitude and longitude are required
• Latitude and longitude are required
• siteCode and provCode are required
• apiKey is required
• [weather] Deprecation warning: Your are using the deprecated

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