Scroll Phat Hd and wunderground API key

PaulH · December 3, 2019, 4:39pm

Hello there,
I’ve started to play about with the Scroll Phat HD and the examples provided using the Pimoroni installer.
The one thing I would love to do is to obtain weather data, but the wonderground-temp-display.py script no longer works as wunderground do not give out API keys unless you are submitting data via a personal weather station.

Does anyone know how to get this working with other weather providers?

Many thanks

Paul.

Crowbot · December 3, 2019, 5:15pm

I had the same issue with an applet on my Mac. Now I use a WeatherBug applet. WeatherBug uses local stations (schools, etc.) and is fairly reliable. I’d like to display the data on a Pi.

You may want to contact them at: https://www.weatherbug.com/partners/ and see if you can get data.

Please keep us posted.

Edit: I just found this but haven’t tried it yet. https://github.com/justquick/python-earth

PaulH · December 4, 2019, 8:25am

Thanks for this, I’ll try weatherbug later today and let you kow if I get anything back.
I’ve just had a reply from Sandy on Discord, saying that the Inky Phat has an example that scapes data from the Dark Sky website.

github.com

pimoroni/inky/blob/master/examples/phat/weather-phat.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import glob
import time
import argparse
import os
from inky import InkyPHAT
from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
from font_fredoka_one import FredokaOne

try:
    import requests
except ImportError:
    exit("This script requires the requests module\nInstall with: sudo pip install requests")

try:
    import geocoder
except ImportError:
    exit("This script requires the geocoder module\nInstall with: sudo pip install geocoder")

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