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Mokometeo 0.1 / 0.2 and German 0.31

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Presentation

Mokometeo is a small python/GTK application fetching the weather forecast from Yahoo weather pages

Installation

Dependencies

You need python-pygtk and glade to make it work.

OM and SHR

So to install it, you can do :

opkg install python-pygtk python-netclient python-html http://www.opkg.org/packages/0_mokometeo_0.2_arm.ipk

German Version using wetter.com is at http://openmoko.huber-computer.de/mokometeowettercom_0.3_all.ipk Install it using:

 opkg install http://openmoko.huber-computer.de/mokometeowettercom_0.31_all.ipk

Also need dependancies (on SHR testing) :

opkg install python-netclient

Using Mokometeo

• In the 0.2 version, there is a bug. To be able to use Mokometeo, please type theses commands before launching it:

mkdir /home/root/.mokometeo
mkdir /home/root/.mokometeo/img
cp /usr/share/mokometeo/question.png /home/root/.mokometeo/img/

• for the german 0.3, you don't need this

• Just click on the desktop icon called "Mokometeo" to load the software.

• You will see a window appearing, with a 4 days forecast : Today, tomorrow (J+1), the day after (J+2) , etc.

• You can use the Next and Previous buttons to change the displayed city.

• If you have no internet connection, you will have to wait a little bit, and then the window will show "question marks" and "-" as min and max temperatures

• Next time you starup Mokometeo, the last fetched data will be displayed.

Enjoy !

Configuring Mokometeo

• By default, 2 cities are configured. You can change the cities and add more in the file

~/.mokometeo/mokometeo.conf

This file must contains at minimum 2 lines. The first line is

city,url

The second and next lines is the name of the city, and the url (tested with french yahoo weather urls), for example:

Paris,http://fr.weather.yahoo.com/FRXX/FRXX0076/index_c.html

German Version:

city,url
Augsburg,http://www.wetter.com/deutschland/augsburg/DE0000434.html

Changelog

2009-03-13 - v0.2

• added some "print" in the code
• debug the .mokometeo folder ; put the config folder in /home/root/.mokometeo/ instead of /.mokometeo/
• test if the connection to internet is ok. If not, display question marks
• backup the data each time data is downloaded and displayed. This data is used on the next Mokometeo startup
• added the date and time when the data has been downloaded

2009-03-12 - v0.1

initial version

2009-07-16 - German v0.31

Minor change to 0.3: Umlauts correctly displayed

Future improvements / To do list

• debug the initial copy of /usr/share/mokometeo/question.png into /home/root/.mokometeo/img/
• improve the way the connection to Yahoo is handled
• test with different languages / locations
• handle backup data for each city in the config file

Sources and contribution

You can access the sources and participate by commiting patches via the google code mercurial : http://code.google.com/p/mokometeo/source/checkout To be able to commit:

• you need a gmail email adress
• I must add you as a user, so please contact me (or edit the discussion tab of this page)
• You can use this password hN8CP6BV5mT7

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