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authorstreetturtle <streetturtle@gmail.com>2020-07-12 17:36:28 -0400
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# Weather widget
-![Weather Widget](./weather-widget.png)
+<p align="center">
+ <img src="https://github.com/streetturtle/awesome-wm-widgets/raw/master/weather-widget/screenshots/weather-widget.png" alt="screenshot" style="max-width:100%;">
+</p>
-Note that widget uses the Arc icon theme, so it should be [installed](https://github.com/horst3180/arc-icon-theme#installation) first under **/usr/share/icons/Arc/** folder.
+Widget consists of three sections:
+ - current weather, including humidity, wind speed, UV index
+ - hourly forecast for the next 24 hours
+ - daily forecast for the next five days
## Customization
@@ -10,33 +15,62 @@ It is possible to customize widget by providing a table with all or some of the
| Name | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
-| `font` | `Play 9` | Font |
-| `city` | `Montreal,ca` | City name and country code, [more info](https://openweathermap.org/current) |
-| `api_key` | none| API key, required |
-| `units` | `metric` | `metric` for celsius, `imperial` for fahrenheit |
-| `both_units_widget` | `false` | show temperature in both units (15°C (59°F)) or in one (15°C) |
-| `both_units_popup` | `false` | same as above but for popup |
-| `notification_position` | `top_right` | The notification position |
+| coordinates | Required | Table with two elements: latitude and longitude, e.g. `{46.204400, 6.143200}` |
+| api_key | Required | Get it [here](https://openweathermap.org/appid) |
+| font_name | `beautiful.font:gsub("%s%d+$", "")` | **Name** of the font to use e.g. 'Play' |
+| both_units_widget | false | Show temperature in both units - '28°C (83°F) |
+| units | metric | `metric` for celsius, `imperial` for fahrenheit |
+| show_hourly_forecast | false | Show hourly forecase section |
+| time_format_12h |false | 12 or 24 hour format (13:00 - default or 1pm) |
+| show_daily_forecast | false | Show daily forecast section |
+| icon_pack_name | weather-underground-icons | Name of the icon pack, could be `weather-underground-icon` or `VitalyGorbachev` or create your own, more details below |
+| icons_extension | `.svg` | File extension of icons in the pack |
-### Example:
+### Icons:
+
+Widget comes with two predefined icon packs:
+
+ - weather-underground-icons taken from [here](https://github.com/manifestinteractive/weather-underground-icons)
+ - VitalyGorbachev taken from [here](https://www.flaticon.com/authors/vitaly-gorbachev)
+
+To add your custom icons, create a folder with the pack name under `/icons` and use the folder name in widget's config. There should be 18 icons, preferably 128x128 minimum. Icons should also respect the naming convention, please check widget's source.
+
+### Examples:
+
+
+#### Custom font, icons
+
+![example1](./screenshots/example1.png)
```lua
-weather_widget({
- api_key = 'your-api-key',
+weather_curl_widget({
+ api_key='<your-key>',
+ coordinates = {45.5017, -73.5673},
+ time_format_12h = true,
units = 'imperial',
- font = 'Ubuntu Mono 9'
+ both_units_widget = true,
+ font_name = 'Carter One',
+ icons = 'VitalyGorbachev',
+ show_hourly_forecast = true,
+ show_daily_forecast = true,
}),
```
+#### Only current weather
-## Installation
+![example2](./screenshots/example2.png)
-1. Install lua socket - to make HTTP calls to get the weather information.
+```lua
+weather_curl_widget({
+ api_key='<your-key>',
+ coordinates = {45.5017, -73.5673},
+}),
+```
- ```bash
- $ sudo apt-get install lua-socket
- ```
+
+
+## Installation
1. Download json parser for lua from [github.com/rxi/json.lua](https://github.com/rxi/json.lua) and place it under **~/.config/awesome/** (don't forget to star a repo <i class="fa fa-github-alt"></i> ):
@@ -66,15 +100,27 @@ weather_widget({
layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal,
...
--default
- weather_widget({api_key = 'your-api-key'}),
- --customized
weather_widget({
- api_key = 'your-api-key',
+ coordinates = {45.5017, -73.5673},
+ api_key='c3d7320b359da4e48c2d682a04076576',
+ }),
+ ,
+ --customized
+ weather_curl_widget({
+ api_key='<your-key>',
+ coordinates = {45.5017, -73.5673},
+ time_format_12h = true,
units = 'imperial',
- font = 'Ubuntu Mono 9'
- })
+ both_units_widget = true,
+ font_name = 'Carter One',
+ icons = 'VitalyGorbachev',
+ show_hourly_forecast = true,
+ show_daily_forecast = true,
+ }),
...
```
-You can read how it works in more details [here](http://pavelmakhov.com/2017/02/weather-widget-for-awesome-wm)
+## How it works
+
+TBW \ No newline at end of file