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Unlike general weather apps, which get information from third party websites, this app gets information from personal weather stations running weeWx.
In case you want the short version, below is the concise steps:
For imperial
wget -O inigo-imperial.tar.gz https://github.com/evilbunny2008/weeWxWeatherApp/releases/download/0.4.11/inigo-imperial.tar.gz
wee_extension --install inigo-imperial.tar.gz
For metric
wget -O inigo-metric.tar.gz https://github.com/evilbunny2008/weeWxWeatherApp/releases/download/0.4.11/inigo-metric.tar.gz
wee_extension --install inigo-metric.tar.gz
If you would like to see moon rise/set in the app, you just need to install pyephem.
sudo apt-get -y install python-dev python-pip
sudo pip install pyephem
You need to restart weeWx to make the above changes work.
sudo systemctl restart weewx
wget -O /var/www/weewx/inigo-settings.txt https://github.com/evilbunny2008/weeWxWeatherApp/releases/download/0.4.11/inigo-settings.txt
sudo nano /var/www/weewx/inigo-settings.txt
You need to change the inigo-settings.txt to provide details about your weather stations. Full details are available in the wiki
Once you're happy with your changes press ctrl+x to exit and save.
Historically rainfall is measured in Australia at 9am, so it's useful for comparison reasons to be able to display rain records matching time of day with the Bureau of Meteorology. To enable this simply edit /etc/weewx/since.py and paste the following into it:
#if $varExists('since')
$since($hour=9).rain.sum.formatted|$since($hour=9,$today=False).rain.sum.formatted|9am|#slurp
#else
|||#slurp
#end if
You can now get the app from Google Play.
On first boot the app will prompt you for the URL to your inigo-settings.txt file, this is usually http://<example>.com/weewx/inigo-settings.txt, once entered click save and in a few seconds you should be up and running.
Before you can use the app, you need to prepare weeWx with an extension and a meta config file telling the app where to get data, radar images and forecasts. To find out more about setting up and running weeWx, you can find more details on the weeWx website.
There is a python plugin for getting more almanac information beyond the simple sunrise and sunset, for more details on this check out this link. To get this add-on simply run the following command to enable it.
sudo apt-get -y install python-dev python-pip
sudo pip install pyephem
Firstly you need to install the Inigo data extension, this will automatically create the inigo-data.txt.tmpl and make suitable changes to weewx.conf which will then generate the inigo-data.txt file needed by the app.
For imperial
wget -O inigo-imperial.tar.gz https://github.com/evilbunny2008/weeWxWeatherApp/releases/download/0.4.11/inigo-imperial.tar.gz
wee_extension --install inigo-imperial.tar.gz
For metric
wget -O inigo-metric.tar.gz https://github.com/evilbunny2008/weeWxWeatherApp/releases/download/0.4.11/inigo-metric.tar.gz
wee_extension --install inigo-metric.tar.gz
Historically rainfall is measured in Australia at 9am, so it's useful for comparison reasons to be able to display rain records matching time of day with the Bureau of Meteorology. To enable this simply edit /etc/weewx/since.py and paste the following into it:
#if $varExists('since')
$since($hour=9).rain.sum.formatted|$since($hour=9,$today=False).rain.sum.formatted|9am|#slurp
#else
|||#slurp
#end if
wget -O /var/www/weewx/inigo-settings.txt https://github.com/evilbunny2008/weeWxWeatherApp/releases/download/0.4.11/inigo-settings.txt
sudo nano /var/www/weewx/inigo-settings.txt
You need to change the inigo-settings.txt to provide details about your weather stations. Full details are available in the wiki
Once you're happy with your changes press ctrl+x to exit and save.
To make the above changes live you need to restart weeWx.
sudo systemctl restart weewx
Once you install and run the app from Google Play the settings box will appear on first boot asking for the URL to the inigo-settings.txt file, if you saved this in the weewx directory this will usually be http://<example>.com/weewx/inigo-data.txt. Simply enter in the URL and click 'Save Settings', the app will then check to make sure the details in inigo-settings.txt is valid and will trigger a download of your weather information, once downloaded the app will then display the weather information.
If you wish to do manual updates you can refresh the app screens by swiping down.
If you wish to have weather information on your home screen you can do this by pressing and holding on a blank area of your home screen, then select widgets, finally scroll down to weeWx Weather App, and it's a 2x1 widget. If you want up to date weather information you need to allow background downloading enabled in the app, otherwise the widget will only update when the app is running. Auto updates are enabled by default.
Source code is made available under the GPLv3 license, in the hope the code might be useful to others. See LICENSE for details.
Big thanks to the weeWx project, as this app wouldn't be possible otherwise.
Thanks to Gary for creating the since.py file.
Weather Icons from FlatIcon and is licensed under CC 3.0 BY
This app gets forecasts from Yahoo! Weather and WeatherZone
This app is by OdiousApps.