galactic-weather-clock

A clock showing the weather on a Pimoroni Galactic Unicorn

What is it?

This is a slimmed down version of Raphaël Velt's script for Pimoroni's Galactic Unicorn buy from Pimoroni shop that shows a clock as well as the current weather.

It uses the Open Meteo API to retrieve the weather forecast as well as to adjust the time zone.

I felt their version was a bit to busy.

Removed

• Birds
• Scrolling updates
• Hearts

Added

• Feels like temprature
• Formatting of code
• Brightness controls
• Sleep button
• A button to refresh time
• B button to refresh weather
• changed wifi config and location config into more common secrets.py
• Changed colours of the weather sprites

Preview

Dependencies

• You need at least version 1.19.18 of the Micropython firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico W (It uses the HSV pen function from that release). Check https://github.com/pimoroni/pimoroni-pico/releases for Firmware updates

Description of files

• connect.py: creates a WIFI network connection. You need to populate a file named WIFI_CONFIG.py.
• secrets.py: This is where you put your latitude, longitude and timezone to get your local forecast & Wifi settings.
• weatherclock_assets.py: The custom fonts used for the digits, and the icons used to display weather states.
• weatherclock.py: The main source code for the weather clock. you can call this main.py if you want it to run on boot.

Link to the original and more fun version https://github.com/raphv/galactic-weather-clock