PiWeatherRock

PiWeatherRock displays local weather on (almost) any screen you connect to a Raspberry Pi. It also works on other platforms, including macOS.

More information about the project and full documentation can be found at https://piweatherrock.technicalissues.us. Be sure to check out the getting started guide under the documentation link there for instruction on how to set everything up.

Release process

• edit version.py according to the types of changes made
• edit requirements.txt if needed
• python3 setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
• tar tzf dist/piweatherrock-*.tar.gz
• twine check dist/*
• [optional] twine upload --repository-url https://test.pypi.org/legacy/ dist/*
• twine upload dist/*
• Create a git tag and push it

Local Development process

python3 -m venv env_name
source env_name/bin/activate

git clone https://github.com/carloshm/PiWeatherRock.git
cd PiWeatherRock  
git pull (for any additional external change after a while)

Make changes

git add .
git commit -m "changes description"
git push origin main

Run changes https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/10/setup-py-deprecated.html

python3 -m pip install --upgrade setuptools wheel
python3 -m pip install .
python3 ./scripts/pwr-ui -c ./piweatherrock/piweatherrock-config.json

Validate Service Data

https://api.open-meteo.com:443 "GET /v1/forecast?latitude=40.299457&longitude=-3.743399&appid=openmeteo-request-piweatherrock&timezone=Europe/Madrid&models=best_match&forecast_days=4&current_weather=true&temperature_unit=celsius&windspeed_unit=kmh&precipitation_unit=mm&timeformat=iso8601&hourly=visibility,weathercode,temperature_2m,relativehumidity_2m,apparent_temperature,surface_pressure,cloudcover,windspeed_80m,precipitation,precipitation_probability,dewpoint_2m,windspeed_10m,windgusts_10m,winddirection_10m,cloudcover_low,direct_radiation&daily=sunrise,sunset,uv_index_max,weathercode,temperature_2m_max,temperature_2m_min,apparent_temperature_max,apparent_temperature_min,precipitation_sum,precipitation_probability_mean,precipitation_probability_min,windgusts_10m_max,precipitation_probability_max,windspeed_10m_max,winddirection_10m_dominant HTTP/1.1"