Another Galactic Weather Clock

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I have made a less busy version of Raphv’s weather clock.

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Removed

  • Birds
  • Scrolling updates
  • Hearts

Added

  • Feels like temprature
  • Formatting of code
  • Brightness controls
  • Sleep button
  • A button to refresh time
  • B button to refresh weather
  • Changed wifi config and location config into more common secrets.py
  • Changed colours of the weather sprites

If you want to use link is below.
Github

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Nice project. I am also using OpenMeteo for one of my projects. They have a good API and the data is usually of high quality (except the aggregated weather-codes for hour/day, but you don’t use them so you don’t have to care).

One thing you could change: OpenMeteo internally updates their data every 15 minutes and there is a field in the response that tells you when this happened. So you could dynamically calculate the next time you call updated_weather().

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Thats not a bad shout I will look into that.
Current plan is to edit the weather icons a bit after that I can look at other bits.

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I’m doing something similar with mine. I cycle through text messages with day, date, time, temp, etc. Mine is displaying indoor values via a BME280, and has an RV3028 for the date and time. I have a separate Interstate75 setup that shows indoor and outdoor. Different strokes for different folks. I do really like your setup though. Well done. =)

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I’m tempted to add in scrolling weather via switch C & D.
Didn’t like the constant scrolling was a bit too distracting for my liking.
Having the larger interstar for indoor and outdoor seems like a really good use.

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I also added an RV3028 RTC to the i75. Two BME280’s on that setup. One outside in a Stevenson enclosure. One less thing cluttering up my WIFI. ;)

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