Netatmo Indicator

Ubuntu debian package deployment of a Menubar indicator for the Netatmo Weather Station

Installation

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mihaigalos/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install netatmo-indicator
netatmo-indicator &

Removal

sudo apt remove --purge netatmo-indicator

Screenshots

Settings

The indicator stores its settings in ~/.netatmo-indicator-preferences.yaml, with an additional credentials file for netatmo. The credentials' file is referenced with the <credentials_file> tag in ~/.netatmo-indicator-preferences.yaml

One may edit the credentials directly in the Menu.

If desired, one may edit the ~/.netatmo-indicator-preferences.yaml and add a dictionary of aliases to substitute the names displayed. Make sure to close the indicator before you manually edit the file.

Example:

aliases:
  Living: In
  Outdoor: Out
  Bedroom: Bed

A note on credentials

When the indicator first starts, the user is presented with the settings menu. One needs to fill in his netatmo username, password, cilentId and clientSecret. All this information can be gathered from the user's netatmo profile.

Deployment [Self Note]

This is a self note. You do not need this for normal indicator usage.

Check if key already available

gpg --list-secret-keys

Generate key if not available

gpg --gen-key
gpg -a --output ~/.gnupg/mihaigalos.gpg --export 'Mihai Galos'
gpg --import ~/.gnupg/mihaigalos.gpg

Debian Package Generation

Generation for local usage / binary build

dpkg-buildpackage -b -pgpg -kmihaigalos@gmail.com

Generation for local deployment / source build

Launchpad (i.e.) only accepts source builds, and to avoid errors, we need an original version of the package see askubuntu for further info.

The current folder contains i.e. .git which we do not want to deploy. We thus make a new folder foo and create the package there.

(in the git folder)
current_directory=$(basename "$PWD")

mkdir -p ../foo/${current_directory} && find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -exec cp {*indicator,*.py,*.desktop,*.md} ../foo/${current_directory} \; && cp -r debian ../foo/${current_directory}
cd ../foo
tar -czvf ${current_directory}_0.1.orig.tar.gz ${current_directory}
cd ${current_directory}

dpkg-buildpackage -S -pgpg -kmihaigalos@gmail.com

Prepare for upload to Launchpad

Prerequisites:

Ubuntu One account active
gpg key used to sign the debian uploaded to Ubuntu Keyserver:

gpg --list-keys
gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371 --send-keys <KEY>)

OpenPGP keys displays the key

Upload source:

dput ppa:mihaigalos/ppa *source.changes

mihaigalos/netatmo-indicator