Introduction

This package uses the Adafruit Standard LCD 16x2 screen in combination with a Raspberry Pi to display weather info from supported weather APIs

Requirements

• Selected account from supported APIs list
• Adafruit Standard LCD 16x2 screen + 10K ohm Potentiometer
• Raspberry Pi 3/4

Supported APIs

Free tears offer enough calls per month for personal usage. (Minimum required calls per month is 3000)

• OpenWeatherMap: https://openweathermap.org/

• WeatherApi: https://www.weatherapi.com/

Setup

Connect the Raspberry Pi as show on project_info/connections.jpg after this

Installing package

sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install git pip3

git clone https://github.com/MBousss/Pi-Weather-Monitor.git
cd Pi-Weather-Monitor/

pip3 install adafruit-circuitpython-charlcd

Config package

Change config_example.json to config.json a update file content:

• location: Enter city name

• api_key: Enter API key of account

• weather_api: Select API to be used [default: "OpenWeatherMap"]

• measuring_units: Set measuring_unit of choice on true [default: "metric"]

{
    "location": "",
    "api_key": "",
    "weather_api": {
        "OpenWeatherMap": true,
        "WeatherApi" : false
    },
    "measuring_units": {
        "metric": true,
        "imperial" : false
    }
}

Manuel run

Run the program manualy:

python3 weather.py

Exit program by running command CTRL + Z

Run on start-up

! Try out Manuel Run first to make sure config is set correct

To automatically run package on boot run this command:

sudo python background-setup.py