Weather Forecast Example Script (#239)

* Example Weather forecast script

Used Adafruits example as base and adapted it for python-escpos
Weather icons taken from 
http://adamwhitcroft.com/climacons/

* Weather Icons from Adam Whitcroft

Weather Icons from http://adamwhitcroft.com/climacons/

* update authors

* Minor improvements

* Weather Script Debugged

Added one more Icon
Attributed Icons in readme.md
changed folder structure

* Change formatting

* Fixed pathing to graphics issue

* fixed image size

* autopep8 to clean up the code

examples/weather.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+
+# Adapted script from Adafruit
+# Weather forecast for Raspberry Pi w/Adafruit Mini Thermal Printer.
+# Retrieves data from DarkSky.net's API, prints current conditions and
+# forecasts for next two days.
+# Weather example using nice bitmaps.
+# Written by Adafruit Industries.  MIT license.
+# Adapted and enhanced for escpos library by MrWunderbar666
+
+# Icons taken from http://adamwhitcroft.com/climacons/
+# Check out his github: https://github.com/AdamWhitcroft/climacons
+
+
+from __future__ import print_function
+from datetime import datetime
+import calendar
+import urllib
+import json
+import time
+import os
+
+from escpos.printer import Usb
+
+""" Setting up the main pathing """
+this_dir, this_filename = os.path.split(__file__)
+GRAPHICS_PATH = os.path.join(this_dir, "graphics/climacons/")
+
+# Adapt to your needs
+printer = Usb(0x0416, 0x5011, profile="POS-5890")
+
+# You can get your API Key on www.darksky.net and register a dev account.
+# Technically you can use any other weather service, of course :)
+API_KEY = "YOUR API KEY"
+
+LAT = "22.345490"       # Your Location
+LONG = "114.189945"     # Your Location
+
+
+def forecast_icon(idx):
+    icon = data['daily']['data'][idx]['icon']
+    image = GRAPHICS_PATH + icon + ".png"
+    return image
+
+
+# Dumps one forecast line to the printer
+def forecast(idx):
+    date = datetime.fromtimestamp(int(data['daily']['data'][idx]['time']))
+    day = calendar.day_name[date.weekday()]
+    lo = data['daily']['data'][idx]['temperatureMin']
+    hi = data['daily']['data'][idx]['temperatureMax']
+    cond = data['daily']['data'][idx]['summary']
+    print(date)
+    print(day)
+    print(lo)
+    print(hi)
+    print(cond)
+    time.sleep(1)
+    printer.set(
+        font='a',
+        height=2,
+        align='left',
+        bold=False,
+        double_height=False)
+    printer.text(day + ' \n ')
+    time.sleep(5)           # Sleep to prevent printer buffer overflow
+    printer.text('\n')
+    printer.image(forecast_icon(idx))
+    printer.text('low ' + str(lo))
+    printer.text(deg)
+    printer.text('\n')
+    printer.text(' high ' + str(hi))
+    printer.text(deg)
+    printer.text('\n')
+    # take care of pesky unicode dash
+    printer.text(cond.replace(u'\u2013', '-').encode('utf-8'))
+    printer.text('\n \n')
+
+
+def icon():
+    icon = data['currently']['icon']
+    image = GRAPHICS_PATH + icon + ".png"
+    return image
+
+
+deg = ' C'      # Degree symbol on thermal printer, need to find a better way to use a proper degree symbol
+
+# if you want Fahrenheit change units= to 'us'
+url = "https://api.darksky.net/forecast/" + API_KEY + "/" + LAT + "," + LONG + \
+    "?exclude=[alerts,minutely,hourly,flags]&units=si"  # change last bit to 'us' for Fahrenheit
+response = urllib.urlopen(url)
+data = json.loads(response.read())
+
+printer.print_and_feed(n=1)
+printer.control("LF")
+printer.set(font='a', height=2, align='center', bold=True, double_height=True)
+printer.text("Weather Forecast")
+printer.text("\n")
+printer.set(align='center')
+
+
+# Print current conditions
+printer.set(font='a', height=2, align='center', bold=True, double_height=False)
+printer.text('Current conditions: \n')
+printer.image(icon())
+printer.text("\n")
+
+printer.set(font='a', height=2, align='left', bold=False, double_height=False)
+temp = data['currently']['temperature']
+cond = data['currently']['summary']
+printer.text(temp)
+printer.text(' ')
+printer.text(deg)
+printer.text(' ')
+printer.text('\n')
+printer.text('Sky: ' + cond)
+printer.text('\n')
+printer.text('\n')
+
+# Print forecast
+printer.set(font='a', height=2, align='center', bold=True, double_height=False)
+printer.text('Forecast: \n')
+forecast(0)
+forecast(1)
+printer.cut
+printer.control("LF")