israel-weather-rs

Fetches weather forecast xml from the Israel Meteorology Service ims.gov.il and parses it into rust structs, which are then printed to stdout as json.

I scheduled the cross-compiled rust binary to run on my android phone with https://llamalab.com/automate/ and Termux. Termux parses the JSON output to alert me when it's likely to rain in the next 6 hours. Whats nice is that the week forecast is cached so that even if i lose network access,i still know if it will rain near me.

Could also be setup to alert you or run on linux/mac/windows/raspberry pi with another notification wrapper like https://github.com/nikoksr/notify or https://github.com/caronc/apprise

Help

$ weather --help
Downloads and Caches Israeli weather forecast from https://ims.gov.il and prints the next forecast for a location as json

Usage: weather [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -l, --location <LOCATION>  Location to check weather for [default: "Tel Aviv - Yafo"]
  -n, --next <NEXT>          Check next n hours ahead [default: 6]
  -a, --all                  Ignore location and print all weather data
  -h, --help                 Print help
  -V, --version              Print version

Example output

[
  {
    "DewPointTemp": 21.0,
    "FeelsLike": 25.799999237060547,
    "ForecastTime": "2023-06-26T21:00:00+00:00",
    "HeatStress": 23.899999618530273,
    "HeatStressLevel": 1.0,
    "MaxTemp": 28.0,
    "MinTemp": 26.0,
    "Rain": 0.0,
    "RelativeHumidity": 73.0,
    "Temperature": 25.799999237060547,
    "UvIndex": null,
    "UvIndexMax": null,
    "WeatherCode": 1220,
    "WeatherCodeEnglish": "Partly cloudy",
    "WindChill": 28.0,
    "WindDirection": 270.0,
    "WindSpeed": 5.0
  }
]

Installation

Download from the latest release, or git clone and run cargo install

Get Started with Dev

1. Get rust via rustup
2. cargo run
3. profit

Also check out the github action. im proud of the CI there.

Running on Android: with help from llamalab automate

I used https://llamalab.com/automate/ Google Play Store link to run the Android build of this on my android phone on a schedule in order to notify me of expected upcoming rain even when my phone is offline.

I use the termux/termux-tasker plugin in llamalabs automate to run the latest Android release on a schedule, and to use the Speak and Notifications blocks of Automate.

The flow file can be imported in the Automate app after you setup termux-tasker with it's permissions.