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[stu90]

I will split this tutorial into two parts:
Part .1 will deal with setting up the needed scripts.
Part .2 will deal with setting the scripts to automatically run/update at boot and then every hour after.

This tutorial is aimed at Lucid Puppy as this is what i am using, although the set up is relatively simply so it will probably work on other versions of puppy to.

Before i start - this Script relies on informations from the website http://weather.noaa.gov/ please visit this site first and ensure you can find a suitable weather station at or near your location before proceeding. (If you have found a suitable weather station please bookmark the page in your web browser as we will need to re-visit the page in step .2 of this tutorial)

Desktop Weather Script.

Desktop Weather Script is a simple weather script for Puppy Linux, it will download from the internet the current weather conditions for your local area and display that information on your desktop in an xmessage window.



Step 1.

First thing to do is create two new Scripts in /root/my-applications/bin
Name Script one: weather.get
Name Script two: weather.show



*If you are unsure on how to create a Script navigate to /root/my-applications/bin with Rox file manager.
Then inside the Rox file manager window Right mouse button click>New>Script

Step 2.

Script one: weather.get
Open the weather.get script with Geany text editor.
*If you are unsure on how to open a Script in text editor - navigate to the script with Rox file manager then on the Script you wish to open Right mouse button click>File'Script name'>Open as Text

Now you have the weather.get Script open in Geany text editor copy (Ctrl + c) and paste (Ctrl + v) the below code but don't save yet.

Code for weather.get

[stu90]

Part 2.

Step 1.

To have the weather.get Script automaticly run at boot up we need to make a link to the Startup directory located in /root

To do this, in Rox File manager navigate to /root/Startup open another instance of Rox file manager and this time navigate to /root/my-applications/bin now we need to drag and drop the weather.get Script from /root/my-applications/bin to /root/Startup doing this will open a selection box - select Link (absolute)




Step 2.

To have the weather.get Script automatically update the weather forecast information every hour we now need to add a new task to Pschedule.

To open Pschedule mouse click on Menu>System>Pschedule on time.



1. In Pschedule click the 'add task' button to add a new task.

2. command - the command is the location of your weather.get Script copy (Ctrl + c) and paste (Ctrl + v) the Script location /root/my-applications/bin/weather.get

3. Task name - is the name of the Task we are adding to Pschedule - just call it weather.

4. Time - this is to update every hour - select 01 in the Min collum

5. click OK to save the Task.


Step .3

With Pschedule still open it is now time to test the Scripts Mouse click on the run button.

If every thing has worked and gone as planed when you click the 'W' button in the JWM tray you should get your local weather forecast and the option for 5 day and 10 day weather forecasts.

[rokytnji]

Worked Like a Charm in Puppy 520

[Zeittriven]

[vovchik]

Dear Stu,

Thanks for this little applet. You can spare the scripts if you use the following little prog I wrote (bweather) a while back. It is 34k, so your method is probably more efficient...

With kind regards,
vovchik

[stu90]

[vovchik]

Dear Stu,

I also noticed those letters some time ago and did a revision of bweather to filter them out. I must have posted an older version and will now try to find the one that does the appropriate filtering....

With kind regards,
vovchik

PS. Those weird symbols started appearing after I wrote the original version. I think metar must have changed something in the mean time but it is nothing too dramatic (perhaps to accommodate UTF-8?).

[tomo3]

Worked Like Charm in Slacko

01micko "Xdialog and pick an icon based on the Weather" and I adds a "weather"icon to JWM tray----.

weather.pet(EGXE,no jwm)