Alternative for pywapi

[cmaxl]

pywapi is not under active development (latest version from 2014) and both APIs are apparently discontinued.
I suggest using openweathermap API. Their free plan with 60 calls/minute and a total of a million per month should be sufficient. Keep in mind that the weather.com API discontinued in January 2020 and nobody ever since created an Issue here...
Any other suggestions besides openweathermap?

[FrankX0]

Apparently the weather forecast is not the main usage of the clock 😃
I would be in favour of going to openweahermap. Seems to have all we need.
And then I also want to suggest to use this for sunrise/set, moon-phases, etc. So also replacing astral.
This resolves issue #162 and only requires one location in the config file.

Of course this requires quite some changes.
@bk1285 what's your opinion?

[cmaxl]

I also had something similar in mind.
How about we save the location to the env vars based on the public IP? Only if there is no user specified location (City/LatLon). Making this the default method at the very first execution of the wordclock is a nice improvement.

[FrankX0]

Getting the location from the IP could be nice touch, but for me not so important.
Users need to add their API key for openweathermap to the config anyway. A small step is then to also specify the GPS location.

[bk1285]

I'll take a closer look to openweahermap, but that all sounds very promising!

Best,
Bernd

[FabianReister]

@bk1285 see https://github.com/FabianReister/rpi_wordclock/tree/feature/omw_weather_forecast :)

This is based on @phenze 's master-python3 branch. Therefore, it won't be possible to directly open a PR for this repository (but you could cherry pick the changes).

[bk1285]

@FabianReister Link is dead... https://github.com/FabianReister/rpi_wordclock/tree/feature/omw_weather_forecast

[R0lleston]

Seems to be one of the last plugin issues to sort....would be great to have weather working

[FrankX0]

Just added support for OpenWeatherMap to the develop branch.
Just in time for the merge?