Help with new project [Solved]

[Tovian]

HOORAY - got it working exactly the way I wanted !!

Many, many THANKS to all who helped me with this project



I hesitate to mark a single post as "the solution" since several folks contributed. But, because the forum leaders request, I will use the supplied tool to mark this "solved"

[CharlesV]

Glad to hear you have it working.

[Tovian]

I absolutely love this new toy. Every time I walk into my "office" I first look at this big, beautiful weather-radar display and instantly know the short-term likelihood of thunderstorms in my part of the world (They pop up almost every afternoon at this time of year, and can be really severe. When I see 'em coming I power down all my computers).

Also, I found the "remote" for the big monitor so I can now turn it on/off without even getting up. And, I used UBlock-Origin to clean up the (web page) display so it's even better now.

Now that I have this terrific tool it will probably never rain another drop in the southeastern United States (??)
But, regardless, thanks again - I'm very pleased !!!

* The only downside is it may motivate me to spend more money on a newer and significantly larger TV/Monitor.

[DukeComposed]

I absolutely love this new toy. Every time I walk into my "office" I first look at this big, beautiful weather-radar display and instantly know the short-term likelihood of thunderstorms in my part of the world (They pop up almost every afternoon at this time of year, and can be really severe. When I see 'em coming I power down all my computers).

This sounds like a really cool toy, with a good deal of utility behind it, too.

For those curious to know how to set up something similar in a terminal window:

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watch -n 3600 --color "curl https://wttr.in"

should be enough get you a working prototype. Adjust the size of the window and typeface as desired and maybe even put this in a ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile or tmux config to start it automatically if you want a dedicated weather report station like OP.

[CharlesV]

I absolutely love this new toy. Every time I walk into my "office" I first look at this big, beautiful weather-radar display and instantly know the short-term likelihood of thunderstorms in my part of the world (They pop up almost every afternoon at this time of year, and can be really severe. When I see 'em coming I power down all my computers).

Also, I found the "remote" for the big monitor so I can now turn it on/off without even getting up. And, I used UBlock-Origin to clean up the (web page) display so it's even better now.

Now that I have this terrific tool it will probably never rain another drop in the southeastern United States (??)
But, regardless, thanks again - I'm very pleased !!!

* The only downside is it may motivate me to spend more money on a newer and significantly larger TV/Monitor.

Excellent! glad to hear this. And yes, I might just do that with one of my old computers too. (or my camera server .)

[CharlesV]

@Tovian If I might ask, what weather map are you using?

[operadude]

I absolutely love this new toy. Every time I walk into my "office" I first look at this big, beautiful weather-radar display and instantly know the short-term likelihood of thunderstorms in my part of the world (They pop up almost every afternoon at this time of year, and can be really severe. When I see 'em coming I power down all my computers).

This sounds like a really cool toy, with a good deal of utility behind it, too.

For those curious to know how to set up something similar in a terminal window:

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watch -n 3600 --color "curl https://wttr.in"

should be enough get you a working prototype. Adjust the size of the window and typeface as desired and maybe even put this in a ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile or tmux config to start it automatically if you want a dedicated weather report station like OP.

AMAZING

Just tried it, and put my specific location, like this:

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watch -n 3600 --color "curl https://wttr.in/NameOfState"

Note: Enter your actual State for "NameOfState" above...

Not sure if it can do City-specific or GPS coordinates, but WOW

Thanks @DukeComposed

EDIT/ADDENDUM:

Just checked the Developer's contact info/site (X), and he has examples of specific cities, and more, e.g. comparing the weather in 2 cities. When you run the code to get the weather, there's a link to his X page, where you can see examples of this cool stuff:

https://x.com/igor_chubin

From there, there is a link to his github repo:

https://github.com/chubin

[DukeComposed]

Not sure if it can do City-specific or GPS coordinates, but WOW :exclamation:

It can:

Supported location types:

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    /paris                  # city name
    /~Eiffel+tower          # any location (+ for spaces)
    /Москва                 # Unicode name of any location in any language
    /muc                    # airport code (3 letters)
    /@stackoverflow.com     # domain name
    /94107                  # area codes
    /-78.46,106.79          # GPS coordinates

I'm pretty sure "area codes" here is supposed to be ZIP codes, but the idea still stands.

[operadude]

Not sure if it can do City-specific or GPS coordinates, but WOW

It can:

Supported location types:

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    /paris                  # city name
    /~Eiffel+tower          # any location (+ for spaces)
    /Москва                 # Unicode name of any location in any language
    /muc                    # airport code (3 letters)
    /@stackoverflow.com     # domain name
    /94107                  # area codes
    /-78.46,106.79          # GPS coordinates

I'm pretty sure "area codes" here is supposed to be ZIP codes, but the idea still stands.

WOW

It just keeps getting better

And...

'Loves me my CLIs'

[Tovian]

@CharlesV - Oops, sorry, I probably should have posted that at the beginning. But, here 'tis:

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https://radar.weather.gov/?settings=v1_eyJhZ2VuZGEiOnsiaWQiOiJ3ZWF0aGVyIiwiY2VudGVyIjpbLTg2LjYzNCwzNC4wNjJdLCJsb2NhdGlvbiI6Wy04NC40NTksMzQuMDYyXSwiem9vbSI6NiwibGF5ZXIiOiJicmVmX3FjZCJ9LCJhbmltYXRpbmciOmZhbHNlLCJiYXNlIjoic3RhbmRhcmQiLCJhcnRjYyI6ZmFsc2UsImNvdW50eSI6ZmFsc2UsImN3YSI6ZmFsc2UsInJmYyI6ZmFsc2UsInN0YXRlIjpmYWxzZSwibWVudSI6ZmFsc2UsInNob3J0RnVzZWRPbmx5IjpmYWxzZSwib3BhY2l0eSI6eyJhbGVydHMiOjAsImxvY2FsIjowLjYsImxvY2FsU3RhdGlvbnMiOjAuOCwibmF0aW9uYWwiOjAuNzl9fQ%3D%3D

That url gets to my general area, but you can mouse-move the map and zoom in/out to get whatever display suits you. And there's a few thousand other weather-data pages on this site as well. This is US Government (NOAA) data - but, as we all know, www.guesswhatscomingnextintheatmosphere.con is probably just as reliable (I always think of the "Wizard of ID" when I think of weather forecasters ).