raspi-weather

a weather application for the raspberry pi and the Inky pHAT (https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/inky-phat?variant=12549254217811)

The script displays:

the current temperature
today's date
today's temperature range
tomorrow's temperature range
a verbal description of today's weather
weather icons drawn with math and python's drawing library

A valuable resource: https://learn.pimoroni.com/tutorial/sandyj/getting-started-with-inky-phat

Installation

SSH into your rasberry pi

ssh pi@[IPADDRESS]

Install the Inky pHAT libraries

curl https://get.pimoroni.com/inky | bash

Copy weather.py over to your pi

scp /path/to/file username@a:/path/to/destination

Obtain a Weather Underground account

https://www.wunderground.com/

Edit weather.py and update the variables with your API Key, the closest station, and your zipcode

ZIPCODE
STATION
APIKEY

Set the raspberry pi to run your script every 30 minutes

crontab -e

At the very bottom of your crontab file, add the following line:

*/30 * * * * python3 /[PATH TO YOUR SCRIPT]