Kindle Weather
This project is fully based on the project shared by Matthew Petroff: http://mpetroff.net/2012/09/kindle-weather-display/
Without his kind share of this great work, my kindle 3 might still sleep in the dust.
The changes I made:
Use crontab
instead of kite
or stop powerd
by changing the
suspend_levels
.
Reorganized the weather_script.py
by spliting weather API out.
Change weather-script-preprocess.svg
to fit the weather API.
Warn user when low battery(less than 10%)
I tried to change weather-script-preprocess.svg
to use <image>
tag
for external image which allow me to easily change the icon, but I failed to
at the rsvg-convert point. So still in embedded way.
weather_script.py
file is based on the work of Matthew Petroff 2012, MIT
license.weather-script-preprocess.svg
and its embedded icon are under
[CC0 Public Domain Dedication][4] license by Matthew Petroff also. I(Gris Ge)
did small change to fit the [weather.com][1] API.python2 pngcrush librsvg2-tools
.URL
in display-weather.sh
by pointing to your own http server.mkdir /mnt/base-us/weather
.mntroot rw
scp display-weather.sh root@k3w:/usr/bin/
display-weather.sh
is executable via chmod +x
on kindle.mntroot rw
.Add this line into /etc/crontab/root
5 6-22 * * * /usr/bin/display-weather.sh
reboot
command.sudo yum install httpd pngcrush librsvg2-tools python2 -y
sudo systemctl enable httpd
sudo systemctl start httpd
sudo mkdir /var/www/html/weather
sudo chmod 777 /var/www/html/weather/
or use chown
.Create a script named as kindle_weather.sh like below:
export KW_INCLUDE_SCI=1
# ^ Include China Shanghai Composite index.
export KW_LATITUDE=30.6586
export KW_LONGTITUDE=104.0647
# ^ If you have airport in your city, use something like `KW_AIRPORT=CTU`
# instead
export KW_WEATHER_KEY="<I_WILL_NOT_TELL_YOU>"
# ^ Weather.com API key
export KW_AQI_CITY="chengdu"
# ^ aqicn.org city name.
export KW_LANSCAPE_LEFT=1
# ^ Lanscape left mode(usb port at your right side).
# KW_LANSCAPE_RIGHT for usb port at your left side.
export KW_OUTPUT="/var/www/html/weather/weather.png"
/home/fge/Source/kindle-weather/weather_script.py
* Add this line to `crontab -e` to refresh weather every 30 minutes
during 6AM to 10PM:
0,30 6-22 * /home/fge/bin/kindle_weather.sh 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null
### Create initial weather PNG
* Invoke `<PATH>/weather_script.py <API_KEY> <LAT> <LON>`.
* Check whether you can get the weather png via:
`http://<your_server_hostname>/weather/weather.png`
# TODO
* Include a TODO list or note.
# Contact
* https://github.com/cathay4t/kindle-weather/issues
[1]: http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/login.html
[2]: http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_Hacks_Information
[3]: https://blitiri.com.ar/p/other/kindle/#usb-networking
[4]: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/