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The widget showing current, hourly and daily weather forecast:

The widget consists of three sections:

current weather, including humidity, wind speed, UV index
hourly forecast for the next 24 hours
daily forecast for the next five days

Customization

It is possible to customize widget by providing a table with all or some of the following config parameters:

Name	Default	Description
coordinates	Required	Table with two elements: latitude and longitude, e.g. `{46.204400, 6.143200}`
api_key	Required	Get it here
font_name	`beautiful.font:gsub("%s%d+$", "")`	Name of the font to use e.g. 'Play'
both_units_widget	false	Show temperature in both units - '28°C (83°F)
units	metric	`metric` for celsius, `imperial` for fahrenheit
show_hourly_forecast	false	Show hourly forecase section
time_format_12h	false	12 or 24 hour format (13:00 - default or 1pm)
show_daily_forecast	false	Show daily forecast section
icon_pack_name	weather-underground-icons	Name of the icon pack, could be `weather-underground-icon` or `VitalyGorbachev` or create your own, more details below
icons_extension	`.png`	File extension of icons in the pack
timeout	120	How often in seconds the widget refreshes

Icons:

The widget comes with two predefined icon packs:

weather-underground-icons taken from here
VitalyGorbachev taken from here

To add your custom icons, create a folder with the pack name under /icons and use the folder name in widget's config. There should be 18 icons, preferably 128x128 minimum. Icons should also respect the naming convention, please check widget's source.

Examples:

Custom font, icons

weather_curl_widget({
    api_key='<your-key>',
    coordinates = {45.5017, -73.5673},
    time_format_12h = true,
    units = 'imperial',
    both_units_widget = true,
    font_name = 'Carter One',
    icons = 'VitalyGorbachev',
    icons_extension = '.svg',
    show_hourly_forecast = true,
    show_daily_forecast = true,
}),

Only current weather

weather_curl_widget({
    api_key='<your-key>',
    coordinates = {45.5017, -73.5673},
}),

Installation

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
```

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

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

Get Open Weather Map app id here: openweathermap.org/appid.

Require weather widget at the beginning of rc.lua:

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

Add widget to the tasklist:

s.mytasklist, -- Middle widget
    { -- Right widgets
        layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal,
        ...
        --default
        weather_widget({
            api_key='<your-key>',
            coordinates = {45.5017, -73.5673},
        }),
        ,
        --customized
        weather_curl_widget({
            api_key='<your-key>',
            coordinates = {45.5017, -73.5673},
            time_format_12h = true,
            units = 'imperial',
            both_units_widget = true,
            font_name = 'Carter One',
            icons = 'VitalyGorbachev',
            icons_extension = '.svg',
            show_hourly_forecast = true,
            show_daily_forecast = true,
        }),
        ...

More screenshots

Only negative temperature:

Both positive and negative tempertature:

How it works

TBW

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Weather widget