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Re: Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols

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Post by dekz »

nilved wrote: post #35

I realize this is a weird question, but I've never understood the point of having an applet show you the current weather. Does your home have no windows?

Looking out the window really only tells you whether you will be wet from rain or not. It doesn't help you determine how humid it is or even whether it will rain in the next few hours. It obviously depends on where you reside, but in my case, the weather could quickly turn wet and thundery even though its been sunny all day.

Re: Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols

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Post by derleth »

nilved wrote: post #35

I realize this is a weird question, but I've never understood the point of having an applet show you the current weather. Does your home have no windows?

In Montana, depending on the season, looking out the window can be a really lousy way to gauge the temperature. When the temperature can swing more than 20 degrees Fahrenheit in a day, it can easily mean the difference between needing a jacket or not.

Re: Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols

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Post by joshvm »

chinpokomon wrote: post #30
mikestew wrote: post #25

We're dyin' over here in the Seattle area: Current weather in Redmond => 282.77 °F Maybe try metric? Current weather in Redmond => 282.77 °C Perhaps it doesn't know about Redmond, WA. Let's try Seattle: Current weather in Seattle => 286.5 °F It also seems to think it's sunny in Seattle right now. Umm, no. EDIT: ah, no space after the comma in your location, otherwise it thinks you're on the surface of Venus.

The weather service reports the temperature in Kelvin.

Then why does Moscow report at -2? Russia's gotten so cold it's below absolute zero..

The comma edit does the trick.

Re: Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols

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Post by siddboots »

jlgreco wrote: post #34
zokier wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Yet with the advent of unicode, there are fewer needs for a graphical interface - stay for a weather app Of course the line between graphical and text-only is blurry. I'd argue that even small inline graphics are still graphics and thus not text- only , no matter how they are technically implemented (unicode or some "real" graphics). Personally I don't think we have to resort for using the unholy mixture of 70s and…

As far as I can tell, only modern equivalent of the terminal (a generic input/output device/program that can be used as the standard front end to an endless array of applications) that has gained any appreciable traction is the web browser. Any "modern terminal, but not actually a terminal" experience, using current tech, is going to be built on top of a web browser. The browser is just the terminal though (which to…

> Any "modern terminal, but not actually a terminal" experience, using current tech, is going to be built on top of a web browser.

You're describing Steven Wittens' TermKit proof-of-concept: http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/

Re: Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols

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Post by mappu »

jimktrains2 wrote: post #16

% cat ~/.ansiweatherrc location:Pittsburgh,Pa units:metric jim@lilly /home/jim/projects/external/ansiweather (master)[0] {+00% 58C} Mon 2013-10-21 15:39:50 0 % ./ansiweather Current weather in Pittsburgh => 17.68 °C ☀ - Humidity => 33 % - Pressure => 1014 hPa jim@lilly /home/jim/projects/external/ansiweather (master)[0] {+00% 59C} Mon 2013-10-21 15:39:52 0 % cat ~/.ansiweatherrc location:Pittsburgh,Pa units:imperial…

Given that 17.68 C is only 63.83 F, i think you just hit two different data points.

Re: Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols

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Post by jimktrains2 »

mappu wrote: post #47
jimktrains2 wrote: post #16

% cat ~/.ansiweatherrc location:Pittsburgh,Pa units:metric jim@lilly /home/jim/projects/external/ansiweather (master)[0] {+00% 58C} Mon 2013-10-21 15:39:50 0 % ./ansiweather Current weather in Pittsburgh => 17.68 °C ☀ - Humidity => 33 % - Pressure => 1014 hPa jim@lilly /home/jim/projects/external/ansiweather (master)[0] {+00% 59C} Mon 2013-10-21 15:39:52 0 % cat ~/.ansiweatherrc location:Pittsburgh,Pa units:imperial…

Given that 17.68 C is only 63.83 F, i think you just hit two different data points.

That's my point. When you switch which units are used 2 different data points are used. (Though, I didn't say it that clearly.)

I didn't even think to convert the temp though, good call.

Re: Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols

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Post by brooklynite »

donpdonp wrote: post #2

./ansiweather: line 76: jq: command not found If you run into that on ubuntu, there does not appear to be an ubuntu package for jq. Binaries and source are available at http://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/

jq is in the software center in 13.10

Re: Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols

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Post by brooklynite »

jstalin wrote: post #4

I had to use an underscore for a space in my city name in the config file. It would be nice if it linked to the list of city names available. But I think the program is pretty awesome!

yeah, I had to put in an underscore for my city as well.
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