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

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Weather widget

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

Customization

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

Name	Default	Description
font	Play 9	Font
city	Montreal,ca	City name and country code, more info
api_key	none	API key, required
units	metric	metric for celsius, imperial for fahrenheit
both_units_widget	false	show temperature in both units (15°C (59°F)) or in one (15°C)
both_units_popup	false	same as above but for popup
notification_position	top_right	The notification position

Example:

weather_widget({
    api_key = 'your-api-key',
    units = 'imperial',
    font = 'Ubuntu Mono 9'
}),

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.

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,
           ...
           --default
           weather_widget({api_key = 'your-api-key'}),
           --customized
           weather_widget({
               api_key = 'your-api-key',
               units = 'imperial',
               font = 'Ubuntu Mono 9'
           })
           ...
   

You can read how it works in more details here