awesome-wm-widgets/weather-widget/README.md

Weather widget

Note that widget uses the Arc icon theme, so it should be installed first under /usr/share/icons/Arc/ folder.

Installation

1. Install lua socket - to make HTTP calls to get the weather information.

   $ sudo apt-get install lua-socket
   

2. Download json parser for lua from github.com/rxi/json.lua and place it under ~/.config/awesome/ (don't forget to star a repo ):

   wget -P ~/.config/awesome/ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rxi/json.lua/master/json.lua
   

3. Clone this repo under ~/.config/awesome/:

   git clone https://github.com/streetturtle/awesome-wm-widgets.git ~/.config/awesome/
   

4. Get Open Weather Map app id here: openweathermap.org/appid and place it in ~/.config/awesome/awesome-wm-widgets/secrets.lua, or directly in the widget. Don't forget to set also your city and units - C/F.

5. Require weather widget at the beginning of rc.lua:

   local weather_widget = require("awesome-wm-widgets.weather-widget.weather")
   

6. Add widget to the tasklist:

   s.mytasklist, -- Middle widget
       { -- Right widgets
           layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal,
           ...
           weather_widget,
           ...
   

You can read how it works in more details here