Displays local weather and wind on a Raspberry Pi

Daily forecast	Hourly forecast	Wind data

PiWeatherRock is an internet-connected weather station. Its purpose is to display local weather and wind condtions. It was created with the goal of having a simple way to check the weather and wind before a nautical activity (kiting, windsurfing, sailing). The end result is a modern version of a weather rock.

• The build of this project originated with the code written by Gene Liverman and published at https://piweatherrock.technicalissues.us .

• Right now all data is pulled from:

  • OpenWetherMap https://openweathermap.org/api/one-call-3 - you have to subscribe to "One Call API 3.0" for 1,000 API calls per day for free
  • Windguru https://www.windguru.cz
  • Holfuy https://api.holfuy.com/

sudo apt-get install python3

sudo apt-get install python3-pip

git clone https://github.com/ciprian288/PiWeatherRock-Windguru-Holfuy.git PiWeatherRockWind

pip3 install -r ~/PiWeatherRockWind/requirements.txt

• The xhost command needs an active X server to run, it can run at the login screen, for example when lightdm loads. You can enable it by editing /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and adding the line: xserver-command=X -s 0 -dpms

  sudo cp ~/PiWeatherRockWind/scripts/{PiWeatherRock.service,PiWeatherRockConfig.service} /etc/systemd/system/

  sudo systemctl enable PiWeatherRockConfig.service

  sudo systemctl enable PiWeatherRock.service

  sudo systemctl start PiWeatherRockConfig.service

  sudo systemctl start PiWeatherRock.service

• For instaling clock font:

  sudo cp -r ~/PiWeatherRockWind/fonts/digital.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/digital.ttf

  fc-cache -f -v

• For your locale:

  locale -a   # find your locale

  sudo update-locale LC_TIME=xx_XX.UTF-8    # replace xx-XX with your locale 

  sudo reboot

  or

  sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales   # select and configure your locales 

  sudo reboot

• When PiWeatherRock starts, on the left side of the screen is your RaspberryPi IP (like: 10.0.2.15:8888 from screenshots)
• Put in any web browser RaspberryPi IP . It provides a web interface for configuring PiWeatherRock
• Wave your mouse over the titles for instructions

- The "API Meteo" key MUST BE CHANGED because it is a TEST key 

• After Update your configuration (on web interface) restart PiWeatherRock.service with:

  sudo systemctl restart PiWeatherRock.service

• If the wind is set, the color of the watch and the wind data (blue, green, orange, brown, purple) changes according to the wind speed

• To display wind data from Windgru, set in the web interface for configuring PiWeatherRock the "API Holfuy" to null and the station ID number from a real wind station like " https://www.windguru.cz/station/2708 " , not the forecasted one. The station ID can be found by accessing the desired station on holfuy.com or windguru.cz, being the number at the end of the link.

• If you don't want the wind page to be displayed, go to the 'Wind screen' section in the web interface for configuring PiWeatherRock and set the pause to 0.