Conky weather howto?

[jackmc]

can someone give me a hand setting up a conky weather section? Ic ant figure it out...

[nphx]

I don't have that complex of a conky script, but you can check out this thread it has conky scripts with screenshots:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281865&highlight=conky

And here are the variables for conky:
http://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html

[jackmc]

That thread gave me the idea to do it :)

I cant figure it out though :(

[nphx]

Here is a nice howto from suse forums:

http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=24669

Conky just displays output from scripts. Grap the script for the weather and conky and put them together.

[reclusivemonkey]

http://conky.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html

On the next to bottom row, the first example (dark blue) has a weather section. Its got a weather.tar.gz for you to download; I presume you just change the location code. HTH

[jackmc]

still cant get it to work :(

my weather section comes up blank. I'll have another snoop around.

[halitech]

do you have curl install and have the weather.sh script to look in the correct location?

[jackmc]

do you have curl install and have the weather.sh script to look in the correct location?

Thanks, thats what I needed :)

[jedinyt]

I was trying to put weather too in my conky and i have an output
No location provided.

here's in my weather.sh

LOCID$=$94015

here's in my .conkyrc

${execi 1800 /home/jacen/weather/weather.sh 94015}

Please help...thanks!

[scapalexis888]

heres a guide:

http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/My+Conky+Config?content=62536&PHPSESSID=9f24f7fdf3

Just follow the instructions from the author (6th comment)

[brjschwedler]

If you would like an alternate data source other than weather.com, I have put together a script that will pull from the National Weather Service and display data from there.
You can download it at http://www.meteor.iastate.edu/~bschwedl/nwsweather.tar.gz
It works the same way as the other weather script, but pulls from the Weather Service Source.

[rrr0321]

I am also struggling to get the weather to appear in Conky. When Conky launches it displays 'No Location Provided'. I have read every post that I can find on this subject with no luck. I attach all of my Conky scripts to this post in the hope someone can help me figure out what is wrong.

[John.Michael.Kane]

I am also struggling to get the weather to appear in Conky. When Conky launches it displays 'No Location Provided'. I have read every post that I can find on this subject with no luck. I attach all of my Conky scripts to this post in the hope someone can help me figure out what is wrong.

Have you tried?

http://xoap.weather.com/search/search?where=[your city entered here]

The above outputs your location id.

You would then add that location id/zip to your weather.sh file where it says

LOCID=

Next you would add a line to your conky pointing to your weather folder. while making sure to add your zip or location id to it as shown below .

Example line.

${execi 60 ~/Documents/weather/weather.sh "your zip or location id"}

You will also need to install curl.

gksudo aptitude install curl

Also make sure 'weather.sh' executable as well,To do so simply right click on it go to properties > permissions > check 'execute' box

[ODF]

How come Montréal is not there ? Its the second biggest city in Canada, it can't be hehe.

[MikeCheck]

I am struggling to get a forecast for the current day. I can get tomorrow's forecast. but I want today's. Has anyone been able to accomplish this?

[andrewabc]

Any Canadian users want environment canada weather forecasts and satellite and radar possibilities? I would definitely like this. Especially radar.
Something simple to implement such as yahoo widget for canadian radar? (http://widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/weather-radar-for-canada)

[MikeCheck]

I am struggling to get a forecast for the current day. I can get tomorrow's forecast. but I want today's. Has anyone been able to accomplish this?

I am still trying this. Does anyone have suggestions? Looking at where the data is coming from(http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/50014?dayf=3&unit=s), it seems like I could just replace d="1" with d="0"
That doesn't work for some reason. Any other suggestions?

[Jaymac]

Might not be relevant anymore, but I came across this thread whilst looking for the conkyrc thread :)


I was trying to put weather too in my conky and i have an output
No location provided.

here's in my weather.sh

LOCID$=$94015

here's in my .conkyrc

${execi 1800 /home/jacen/weather/weather.sh 94015}

Please help...thanks!

You can probably leave the LOCID as it is:


LOCID=$1

This way, it will call it from the code passed in your second line...


${execi 1800 /home/jacen/weather/weather.sh 94015}

I've attached my weather.sh file to show you what I mean. The only lines I have edited are the following:


# s=standard units, m=metric units
UNITS=m

# where this script and the XSLT lives
RUNDIR=/home/john/.conky/

Here is the line from my conkyrc:


${execi 1800 /home/john/.conky/weather.sh UKXX0025}

[Craig73]

Any Canadian users want environment canada weather forecasts and satellite and radar possibilities? I would definitely like this. Especially radar.
Something simple to implement such as yahoo widget for canadian radar? (http://widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/weather-radar-for-canada)

Did you figure this out?

You can get an RSS feed of the weather forcast from Environment Canada (http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca) by finding your forcast and clicking on the CSS link at the at the bottom (http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/rss/city/on-82_e.xml)

I found a script elsewhere that parses XML for Conky so a script should be straight forward...

[andrewabc]

Did you figure this out?

You can get an RSS feed of the weather forcast from Environment Canada (http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca) by finding your forcast and clicking on the CSS link at the at the bottom (http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/rss/city/on-82_e.xml)

I found a script elsewhere that parses XML for Conky so a script should be straight forward...

I hope someone is able to do it :)
I don't have any programming skills. :O

[ben2talk]

The instructions are a little vague - I'm totally stuck after looking and messing for three or four hours now...

[tonytraductor]

I just did
${execi 300 weather -i -v HVN}

Works fine.

You need to have weather installed.
(apt-get weather)

[DeMus]

This is my present conky screen, with the weather forecast at the bottom.
I also include my .conkyrc file.

[carloscmt]

how do you start your conkyforecast? what do you type on terminal? I am a beginner. Thank You.