QTile OpenWeatherMap weather widget v0.2

This is a widget for QTile which can display current weather information from OpenWeatherMap

Information

The widget can display the following information

• An icon to represent the current weather state.
• Current temperature
• Feels like temperature
• Minimum temperature
• Maximum temperature
• Air pressure
• Relative humidity
• The textual description of the weather

For example using the default format string looks something like this

API Key

An API key from OpenWeatherMap is required and should be passed as the api_key parameter to the initializer

Location

The location to display infomation for is set by the latitude and longitude parameters to the initializer.

Temperature Units

Temperature units can be specified with the units parameter. Valid values are

• metric = °C (celsius, the default)
• imperial = °F (farenheight)
• standard = °K (kelvin)

Format string

The format parameter determines what information is displayed.

To change the format use the following elements surrounded by { and }

Element	Description
icon	Current weather icon
temp	Current temperature
temp_units	Temperature units
temp_min	Minimum temperature
temp_max	Maximum temperature
temp_feels_like	Temperature it fells like
condition	Weather condition as a string
pressure	Barometric pressure
humidity	Relative humidity

The default format string is "{temp:.1f}{temp_units} {icon}"

Icons

The icons for the weather states can come from either of the following fonts which you will need to have installed

• Weather Icons (the default)
• Material Design Icons

Installation

• Copy owm.py to your QTile config directory.

• From whichever file you construct your bars in, import the module

  import owm

• Add it to your bar

  ww = owm.OpenWeatherMap(
      api_key="...",
      latitude=51.0,
      longitude=-50.1,
      icon_font="Material Design Icons",
  )
  top_bar.append(ww)

Version History

No.	Description
0.2	Updated to handle QTile's removal of the base.ThreadedPollText class.
0.1	Initial Version