EeeWeather Applet


Snapshot of EeeWeather on EeePC toolbar

Snapshot of EeeWeather menu


The applet is displaying current temperature and wind speed/direction.
It was designed for Asus EeePC or EP20, but works with every QT4 based desktop (KDE desktops)

The weather readings are retrieved from

http://www.rap.ucar.edu

The default setting is:
location = Ottawa, Canada (ICAO symbol CYOW)
metric = on
toggling of temperature graph / wind speed information

To start with different settings, supply it on the command line, e.g.:

./eeeweather -i -f -g KNYC &

This will start display in Imperial mode, with no toggling and wind speed/direction in place of temperature graph, for New York, Central Park.

Possible options are:

To get the ICAO symbol for your location, check:
http://www.ral.ucar.edu/weather/surface/stations.txt

To run the applet automatically on Eee PC - use the binary .deb release. To install the downloaded package use:
sudo dpkg -i eeeweather*.deb

If your EeePC is using UnionFS - you may need to reboot before the applet can be activated...

Once the package is installed, select your local ICAO meteo station symbol from a link above or from
zless /usr/share/doc/eeeweather/stations.txt.gz

and edit /usr/bin/startsimple.sh to replace CYOW with your local station.

On EeePC the .deb installer copies eeeweather to /usr/bin directory and adds it to  /usr/bin/startsimple.sh (e.g. after minimixer)...

On KDE systems the .deb installer adds the startup script to the .kde/Autostart directories of all users. The local ICAO station needs to be specified in these scripts.

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Please check the SourceForge.net page at
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/eeeweather