Written by Todd Wallace
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tekdragon
Website: https://tektodd.com
So I am a bit of a weather geek. I even have my own outdoor wireless sensor that can measure wind speed, direction, rainfall, etc. Weather "apps" are available on almost every platform capable of connecting to the internet, so how cool would it be to do it on a CoCo too? Well I found this cool web-based poweruser-oriented online weather service called wttr.in. It's free to use and has a very simple implementation. I figured out how to do a simple HTTP request over a TCP connection made with DriveWire's virtual serial port annddd VOILA!!
- New in Version 2.x
I have completely rewritten the networking parts of the code to request and parse weather data in JSON format from wttr.in as that medium contains a much wider range of data and units of measure. This now lets the user view their weather data in either metric or imperial measurements regardless of the region they are checking the conditions of.
The biggest change though is the addition of a fully graphical output format with full color icons and a segmented-display style font for displaying the actual temperature, etc. The graphics output is actually the DEFAULT as of version 2.0, however you can still use the original text-only format by adding the -t flag. You can read more about the various supported CLI flags by running "cocowx" without any parameters which will display all the syntax information and the like.
- Installation
CoCo WX 2.x is dependent on 3 graphics-support files which I decided to put in the /dd/sys/cocowx/ directory. I will be including a script with this that essentially creates that directory, and then copies those 3 graphics files to it. The executable "cocowx" is then copied to /dd/cmds. You can, of course, do all that manually yourself, but I figured a script might make things easier on less-experienced users.
- Special thanks to Dave Philipsen for writing the pressure converter routine for me!