Puppy now has a home-grown weather forecast utility!

[musher0]

Hi David.

In terminal, type

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meteo h

it will tell you the basics.

Get back to me if there are still hazy points.

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In short you type
meteo city type-of-terminal

Instead of the name of a city, you can use longitude and latitude coordinates, a
postal code, or an IATA airport code. But let's keep it simple for now.

Example

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meteo Cardiff 1

will show the weather for the city Cardiff, in Wales, using the minimalist st terminal
(in which the ANSI colors show nicely on black background with white type).

If you type

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meteo Cardiff 2

you'll get the same weather info for the same city. However it will be displayed
using urxvt, in basically two colors over a transparent background. A few of the
original colors may randomly seep through, but not all. For some reason (great
mystery, this; I have not figured out why), urxvt intercepts some of the ANSI colors.

IHTH. BFN.

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PS. I'll give some thought to the menu portability issue you mentioned.

[davids45]

G'day/jour musher0,

I installed your latest weather pet in a Full TahrPup-5.8.4. There was an earlier version already installed which I just left.

I ran meteo h in this Pup's terminal and first had a blue window of problems, followed quickly by a black background window that looked like the expected help window. Screenshots attached.

With my wrrt.EN.lst symlink from sda5 in place, I ran the weather program and there was no problem, apart from the initial message about my terminal configuration which required an <Enter> press..

David S.

[musher0]

Hi David.

I installed 666philb's TahrPup-6.0.5 on this machine and guess what? I'm getting the
same warning you're getting before the litlle st terminal shows the weather report!!!
I think we better report this quirk to phil.

I also got the same error messages as you got when using the main urxvt terminal.
Which means the urxvt the TahrPup is using does not have the full complement of
perl libraries that it needs.

I double-checked and the $TERM variable is correctly set. So... Again, these
weirdnesses should be reported to phil in the TahrPup 605 thread.

In practice, if we just have to press the Enter key an extra time to get the report,
it's not so bad, is it?

For a minute there, you had me worried: I thought I had done something serious and
that the entire heavens were going to open and pour their contents on my head.
(Sorry for the bad humor!) But as it turns out, it's not my script, it's some
quirk in the TahrPup.

I'm glad you found a way to get your personalized menu working, BTW.

BFN.

[Pelo]

Musher0, tu l'as mis en categorie 'business' pour les marchands de glaces, ou de crèmes à bronzer ?
T'as vu, en Business class, ya que moi qui répond, mais on a de la visite.

[musher0]

Hello all.

Please find attached a version 3.8b.

I only added the capacity to change the colors of the main title and underscores
from dark to light, and a call to the "GTK chtheme" utility if you find it necessary.

I kept it very simple because I didn't want to transform this weather script into an
art gallery or a fashion runway. There are only two color sets: bisque and snow for
dark GTK themes OR SaddleBrown and orange for light GTK themes. Of course
with some GTK themes, either color scheme will be fine.

I tested those colors a bit and they seem to fit in and maintain readability with
pretty much any theme. The color change can be controlled directly from the menu.
(Please see screen captures.)

It's sort of an on and off switch. From a terminal, simply type:

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meteo c

If you're not satisfied with the color result, do it again and the original colors will
be re-displayed.

I hope you'll enjoy these small changes. BFN.

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Due to forum attachments limitations, the pet archive has been split in two. To
reassemble the pet archive please type in terminal:

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cat WorldWeather-3.8b.xa?.pet > WorldWeather-3.8b.pet

and then to install click on WorldWeather-3.8b.pet.

[vovchik]

Dear musher0,

Looks very good and, since I use a light theme, it works nicely. Thanks.

With kind regards,
vovchik

[musher0]

Hi, vovchik.

Thanks for the thanks! BFN.

[davids45]

G'day musher0,

Including your world-weather in most of my Pups (both Full & Frugal), I have had a strange response from just one version of TahrPup-6.0.2 where the terminal window that opens to display the weather report is bigger than the display.

All other Pups are "normal" where the terminal window takes up more than half the display but does not go 'off the edge' (see attached screenshots).

In every Pup, I still have to press <Enter> as I first get the message about the terminal set-up not being completely correct.

The over-size terminal window with over-size font has a red 'X' top left (see screenshot) but I don't know which program this is, so don't know if I can fix this problem with a config edit for this one terminal package (e.g. reduce the font size).

The over-size terminal appears as soon as I choose a location from the menu and get that terminal 'error' message - so it is not just too big when displaying the weather report itself.

With the demise of the weather-forecast widgets due to changes by yahoo and accuweather , your world-weather package is very useful as a desktop-clickable, stand-alone detailed weather report/forecast.

So I'm hoping there is a simple fix and explanation for this one-off behaviour.

If you need more information about this oddity, please ask.

Thanks,
David S.

[mfb]

davids45,

At TahrPup-6.0.2 > Menu > Utility you may find “Urxvt Terminal Control (see Urxvt screen shot)" where you can make type size and other changes.

If “Urxvt Terminal Control

[davids45]

G'day mfb,

Thanks for your reply to my query.

I'm interstate visiting grandchildren but when back in Sydney next week, I will try your suggestion to fix the problem with that Tahrpup on my desktop computer.

David S.

[greengeek]

OMG - fantastic musher! I really didn't expect it to work for my location (Auckland, NZ) but it did! And in colour! (although the colour doesn't show too well in my screenie) Haha, very clever. Only complaint is it thinks New Zealand is part of Asia - we are actually part of "Oceania". Nowhere near Asia. Small detail.

I will let you know if it gets the weather wrong and I get wet...

[musher0]

Hi guys.

Sorry for clocking in late, but this utility is not working anymore for me...

A "cobbler's son" tale perhaps, or maybe the webmaster decided to put my
url on the black list for testing his utility too frequently.

I have to see what's wrong up here before I can provide any insight on
the problems you are experiencing at this time.

BFN.

[davids45]

G'day,

Thanks mfb for your post about my too-big problem but it was not the fix I needed.

I found the problem of the oversized terminal window with world weather was being caused by me (as usual ) - I had two versions of world-weather loaded in this Frugal Tahrpup .

One (the first I had loaded in this Pup) was running from symlinks to my data partition.

The other I had added recently to my 'all programs' sfs that I boot with all my Frugals.

So when I changed to the updated sfs for this tahrpup frugal, there were two copies in the system .

When I deleted the symlink version and ran just the sfs version, the weather display returned to normal (compare today's screenshot with earlier post).

David S.

[davids45]

G'day,

Has any one been able to run this program in a recent Slacko Pup?

I get the normal large black terminal window asking to hit <Enter> but when I do, then it comes up with a short line of text & caret marks and stops (screenshot).

Not seeing this in non-Slacko Pups.

David S.

[musher0]

Hi davids45.

The answer is temporarily: Nope.

Actually, the people at wttr.in have changed things at their end, so I am not sure
the script I produced a while back works anymore. I have to check, but I am short
on time ATM.

The default call from browser still works, though: http://wttr.in/YourCity, e.g.
http://wttr.in/Gatineau

BFN.

[davids45]

G'day musher0,

Thanks for your reply - I did read of your difficulties with this old program and your consequent loss of focus/interest with it.

I'll try the link you posted when next I boot with a recent SlackoPup.
The link, like your original pet is fine in this BionicPup.

David S.

PS: Did the Slacko test, and switching Gastineau for Chatswood, found it worked well - fine and 24C .