/conky-flair-weather

Improved Flair Weather Conky widget.

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Improved Conky Flair Widget

This project provides an up to date and improved version of the Conky Flair Widget initially pushed on DeviantArt by Jesse Avalos.

The Improved Conky Flair Widget brings the following improvements.

  • Replace the retired Yahoo Weather API by OpenWeatherMap;
  • Update the Conky configuration files to use the last format;
  • Remove unused files and reorganize files to be more logical.

Screenshots

Style 1

Style 1

Style 2

Style 2

Setup

The Widget requires jq and an OpenWeatherMap API key.

Install jq

Follow the instructions on the Download jq page.

Get an OpenWeatherMap API key

  1. Go to the Create New Account form and create your account;
  2. Confirm your email address through the received email;
  3. Get the API key you received by email (WARNING: activation of your API key could take several hours).

Configure your API key

Create a ~/.config/conky/flair-weather.json file with the following content and reload your Widget.

{
    "openweathermap": {
        "appid": "{API_KEY}"
    }
}