lit weather

LIT effects for weather displays

Reading 1 dimentional weather forcasts

The weather effect will display weather data using 4 visual indicators

• Red pixels: 2 red pixels will display yesterday's low (leftmost) and high (right) temperatures. This is used as an anchor and only works if you went outside yestersday.
• Green pixels: 2 green pixels display the high and low for today. Since no numerical temperatures are displayed, they only have meaning when compared to the red pixels.
• White blinking pixel: This is the current temperature.
• Background color: If there is percipitation in the day's forcast, then the background color of the entire strip will be blue

Overlaps:

• If a green and red pixel would fall on the same location, that pixels will appear yellow.
• If the current temperature falls on a high or low, that pixel will blink.

Setup

Requirements

• litd
• accuweather api key
• python3 cachetools (sudo pip3 install cachetools)
• go outside at least for a little bit everyday

Installation

1. mkdir ~/.lit/litd/effects
2. touch ~/.lit/litd/effects/__init__.py
3. git clone https://github.com/lit-illumination-technology/lit_weather.git ~/.lit/litd/effects/lit_weather
4. Create and open ~/.lit/litd/effects/lit_weather/config.json in your preferred editor and enter:

{
    "accuweather_api_key": YOUR_API_KEY,
    "zipcode": YOUR_POSTALCODE
}