/Live-Earth-Wallpapers

A collection of all earth related space Images in one script to set as your Desktop background.

Primary LanguagePythonGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

PyPI version License: GPL v3

Linux MacOs Windows

Live-Earth-Wallpapers aka liewa

Set your Desktop background to near real-time pictures of the earth. Supports all known geostationary satellites, high resolution sentinel images, Nasa Solar Dynamics Observatory images and NASA astronomy picture of the day (Apod)! For Linux, Windows and macOS!

Examples

alt text Example Output of the config1.yml file. Use this by passing config1 to -c flag. alt text Example Output of the config2.yml file. Use this by passing config2 to -c flag. alt text Example Output of the config3.yml file. Use this by passing config3 to -c flag. alt text Example Output of the Sentinel satellite. Learn how to generate custom images for your location at the Wiki Page alt text Example Output of the Sentinel satellite. Learn how to generate custom images for your location at the Wiki Page alt text Example Output of the Sentinel satellite. Learn how to generate custom images for your location at the Wiki Page alt text Example Output for astronomy picture of the day feed (apod)(2022 November 15).

Build images to your needs by writing your own config.yml file or using the GUI.

Read more on the Wiki Page.

Installation

You need Python installed and added to your System-path-variable!

Using PyPi (Linux,MacOs)

  1. Install liewa-software from pypi Package
  2. execute command line Interface by liewa-cli or the Gui by liewa-gui.

Windows

  1. Download the liewaInstaller.exe from Releases Page and execute the GUI.
  2. If the desktop image hasn't changed, take a look at the Known bugs section.

Linux

  1. Download the liewa.deb file from Releases Page.
  2. Execute sudo dpkg -i liewa.deb.

MacOS

  1. Download the liewa.dmg drive from the Releases Page.
  2. Drag and Drop the liewa software into the Program Folders.

For detailed user guide, read the Wiki page.

Usage

Script Parameters:

short long type default help
-c --config String path/to/project/recources/config.yml The absolute path to the config File. There are 3 examples preinstalled. Use them by passing congfig1, config2 or config3 as parameters.
-o --output String - The absolute path to a folder. All loaded Images will be saved here.

The composition of your background image is defined by a config.yml file.
Read the Wiki for a detailed instruction on how to personalize your image composition.

For Contributers

  1. Read the Contributing Readme.
  2. Filter discussions by "For Contributers" label to find topics to work on.
  3. Feel free to add your own ideas, features or open a discussion in the Discussions tab.

Known Bugs

  1. As of June 27, 2023, there are no images available of Goes-17 meteosat-11.

Pypi

  1. If liewa-cli or liewa-gui is not known, add python pip itepackages to system PATH.

Windows

  1. On some systems the task scheduler can't automatically be set to execute the program even when the cumputer is in battery mode. Therefore you have to uncheck this flag manually in the TaskScheduler for the liewa Task.
  2. On some systems the python Packages need to be manually installed. Do so by typing pip install bs4 pillow pyyaml requests into CMD.