pHAT weather example stopped working

[KayleaS]

the weather example for phat stopped working for me as of new years eve 2022

Inky pHAT: Weather

Displays weather information for a given location. The default location is Sheffield-on-Sea.

Detected Red pHAT (SSD1608) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/pi/Pimoroni/inky/examples/phat/weather-phat.py", line 118, in weather = get_weather(location_string) File "/home/pi/Pimoroni/inky/examples/phat/weather-phat.py", line 82, in get_weather weather["summary"] = curr[0].img["alt"].split()[0] IndexError: list index out of range

[helgibbons]

Looks like Apple discontinued the Dark Sky service (which is how this example gets its weather data) at the end of 2022 :( https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/13/as-apples-weatherkit-launches-dark-sky-for-ios-to-wind-down-operations-by-year-end

There's a list of some alternative weather APIs here, though I think most of them will need you to sign up for an API key to get at their data: https://medium.com/@Ari_n/8-weather-api-alternatives-now-that-darksky-is-shutting-down-42a5ac395f93

We've used Open Meteo for some of our Raspberry Pi Pico examples which doesn't require an API key - might be worth a look! https://open-meteo.com/

[helgibbons]

Updated example here if you want to give it a try :)

https://github.com/pimoroni/inky/blob/patch/remove-darksky/examples/phat/weather-phat.py