#!/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")