#!/usr/bin/python """Weather forecast example. 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 https://adamwhitcroft.com/climacons/ Check out his github: https://github.com/AdamWhitcroft/climacons """ import calendar import json import os import time import urllib from datetime import datetime from escpos.printer import Usb """Set 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): """Get right icon for forecast.""" icon = data["daily"]["data"][idx]["icon"] image = GRAPHICS_PATH + icon + ".png" return image def forecast(idx): """Dump one forecast line to the printer.""" 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("\u2013", "-").encode("utf-8")) printer.text("\n \n") def icon(): """Get 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")