EeeWeather Applet
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:
- 4 letter ICAO symbol
- -i - imperial
- -f - stop automatic switching between graph/wind info
- -g - do not display graph - show wind info
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.
Downolads
Please check the SourceForge.net page at
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/eeeweather