raspi-weather
a weather application for the raspberry pi and the Inky pHAT (https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/inky-phat?variant=12549254217811)
The script displays:
- the current temperature
- today's date
- today's temperature range
- tomorrow's temperature range
- a verbal description of today's weather
- weather icons drawn with math and python's drawing library
A valuable resource: https://learn.pimoroni.com/tutorial/sandyj/getting-started-with-inky-phat
Installation
SSH into your rasberry pi
ssh pi@[IPADDRESS]
Install the Inky pHAT libraries
curl https://get.pimoroni.com/inky | bash
Copy weather.py over to your pi
scp /path/to/file username@a:/path/to/destination
Obtain a Weather Underground account
Edit weather.py and update the variables with your API Key, the closest station, and your zipcode
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ZIPCODE
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STATION
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APIKEY
Set the raspberry pi to run your script every 30 minutes
crontab -e
At the very bottom of your crontab file, add the following line:
*/30 * * * * python3 /[PATH TO YOUR SCRIPT]
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2020 Derek Caelin
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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