Cumulocity IoT Weather forecast widget

Displays a 5-day weather forecast using weather data provided by the OpenWeatherAPI.

⚠️ This project is no longer under development. Please use Weather Forecast Widget for Cumulocity for Application Builder >=2.x.x and Cumulocity >=1016.x.x⚠️

Features

Realtime: Realtime weather updates from the OpenWeatherAPI

Configurable Refresh rate: Control how often the weather updates

Installation

Runtime Widget Deployment?

• This widget supports runtime deployment. Download the Runtime Binary and use Application Builder to install your runtime widget.

Quickstart

This guide will teach you how to add the widget in your existing or new dashboard.

1. Register a new account with OpenWeather
2. Verify your openweathermap account by clicking on the email which has been sent to you
3. Log into your openweathermap account and add a new API under API keys
4. Open the Application Builder application from the app switcher (Next to your username in the top right)
5. Add a new dashboard or navigate to an existing dashboard
6. Click Add Widget
7. Search for Weather Forecast
8. See below for the configuration options

Configuration options

1. Select your device in the Target Assets or Devices field

2. Enter the API Key which was generated in your openweathermap API keys page

3. Enter the Refresh (in hours) e.g. 1

4. Enter the City. This is an optional field. The latitude and longitude of your selected device will be used if it has been configured.

   Note the City will default to London, if no city name is typed into this field and the selected device doesn't contain location (latitude & longitude) details.

Development - to enhance and test this widget in your local environment

1. Clone the repository on your local machine using git clone https://github.com/SoftwareAG/cumulocity-weather-forecast-widget.git.
2. Run npm install to download the module dependencies.
3. Run c8ycli server -u https://your_tenant_url to start the server.
4. Go to http://localhost:9000/apps/cockpit/ in the browser to view and test your changes.
5. (Optional) push the changes back to this repository.

Build - to create a new build of the weather-forecast widget for the Runtime Widget Loader

1. Finish the development and testing on your local machine.
2. Run gulp to start the build process.
3. Use the weather-forecast-widget.zip file in the dist folder as your distribution file.

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This widget is provided as-is and without warranty or support. They do not constitute part of the Software AG product suite. Users are free to use, fork and modify them, subject to the license agreement. While Software AG welcomes contributions, we cannot guarantee to include every contribution in the master project.

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