himawaripy

Put near-realtime picture of Earth as your desktop background

himawaripy is a Python 2 script that fetches near-realtime (10 minutes delayed) picture of Earth as its taken by Himawari 8 (ひまわり8号) and sets it as your desktop background.

Set a cronjob that runs in every 10 minutes to automatically get the near-realtime picture of Earth.

This is a fork of the original specifically for OS X

Installation

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/snakie/himawaripy.git

# install pillow
brew install homebrew/python/pillow

# configure
cd ~/himawaripy
vi himawaripy.py

# test whether it's working
./himawaripy.py

# set up a cronjob
crontab -e
# Add the line:
*/10 * * * * $HOME/himawaripy/himawaripy.py > /dev/null && $HOME/himawaripy/update_wallpaper.sh

Example

Attributions

Bora M. Alper - for the original Python 3 implementation: https://github.com/boramalper/himawaripy

Thanks to MichaelPote for the initial implementation using Powershell Script.

Thanks to Charlie Loyd for image processing logic (hi8-fetch.py).

Obviously, thanks to the Japan Meteorological Agency for opening these pictures to public.