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probnot / wpg-weatherchan

This creates the old-school looking weather channel that was common on Winnipeg cable TV into the 1990s.
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wpg-weatherchan

This creates the old-school looking weather channel that was common on Winnipeg cable TV into the 1990s.

Example of the result, captured from the analog video output Example of the result, captured from the analog video output

Usage

This was written in Python 3.x

This uses 'ECData' from env_canada to get the weather data from Environment Canada. It can be found here: (https://github.com/michaeldavie/env_canada). It also uses the fonts VCR OSD Mono (https://www.dafont.com/vcr-osd-mono.font) and 7-Segment Normal (https://blogfonts.com/7-segment-normal.font).

It was tested on a Raspberry Pi 3 running Raspberry Pi OS (full w/desktop). I recommend the model 3 or higher. Because it uses tkinter, it must be launched from the GUI in raspbian. I recommend disabling screenblank, and turning on overscan for best results.

The Composite video output in the Raspberry Pi runs at 720x480, so I recommend setting the display to this and not 640x480 (which added a black bar on the side for me).

If you're launching this from an SSH session, I recommend doing so through a script file with the following:

export DISPLAY=:0.0

python3 wpg-weatherchan.py

To launch automatically, create a file in /etc/xdg/autostart/ called "display.desktop" with the following contents (replace my filepath with whatever your location is):

[Desktop Entry]

Name=WeatherPi

Exec=/usr/bin/python3 /home/probnot/WeatherPi/wpg-weatherchan.py

License

This code is available under the terms of the [MIT License]