[RELEASE] WXMON v1.1.4 -Feb 7, 2024- Localized Weather Monitoring, extended forecasts, including aviation METARs and TAFs! (US/Global!)

[Viktor Jaep]

After needing to make some fixes to the way that aviationweather.gov changed its API calls, I decided it's finally time to bring this out of perpetual beta. This is what I consider a "what is possible" kind-of script... Categorized under "Smart Home", purely for fun, pulling weather data from various sources, extracting data from XML and displaying it in a semi-orderly fashion within an SSH window on your router! ENJOY!

What's new!?
v0.5 - (January 15, 2024)
* MAJOR: Official release! It's been a long time coming. Please know this is just a "what is possible" kind of script. It serves no purpose other than seeing what can be done with API weather feeds, extracting data from XML and displaying it in an orderly fashion on the screen. Purely for enjoyment, if you'd rather get your local weather in an SSH window on your router vs. one of the many old, tired web-based weather services/apps out there.
* FIXED: aviationweather.gov recently decided to change their API methods, and had to make some fixes in order to get the Aviation weather working again. Decided it was time to freshen things up, get this out of beta, and on the streets!
* FIXED: After update, script will automatically run with the new version instead of having to exit out and run the script again.
* MINOR: General enhancements to overall look & feel, bringing it under the same standards as BACKUPMON at this point.

Download Link:

curl --retry 3 "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ViktorJp/WXMON/master/wxmon-0.5.sh" -o "/jffs/scripts/wxmon.sh" && chmod 755 "/jffs/scripts/wxmon.sh"

Significant Screenshots:

 

[visortgw]

After needing to make some fixes to the way that aviationweather.gov changed its API calls, I decided it's finally time to bring this out of perpetual beta. This is what I consider a "what is possible" kind-of script... Categorized under "Smart Home", purely for fun, pulling weather data from various sources, extracting data from XML and displaying it in a semi-orderly fashion within an SSH window on your router! ENJOY!

What's new!?
v0.5 - (January 15, 2024)
* MAJOR: Official release! It's been a long time coming. Please know this is just a "what is possible" kind of script. It serves no purpose other than seeing what can be done with API weather feeds, extracting data from XML and displaying it in an orderly fashion on the screen. Purely for enjoyment, if you'd rather get your local weather in an SSH window on your router vs. one of the many old, tired web-based weather services/apps out there.
* FIXED: aviationweather.gov recently decided to change their API methods, and had to make some fixes in order to get the Aviation weather working again. Decided it was time to freshen things up, get this out of beta, and on the streets!
* FIXED: After update, script will automatically run with the new version instead of having to exit out and run the script again.
* MINOR: General enhancements to overall look & feel, bringing it under the same standards as BACKUPMON at this point.

Download Link:

curl --retry 3 "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ViktorJp/WXMON/master/wxmon-0.5.sh" -o "/jffs/scripts/wxmon.sh" && chmod 755 "/jffs/scripts/wxmon.sh"

Significant Screenshots:

View attachment 55547

Will this be added to amtm at some point?

 

[visortgw]

After needing to make some fixes to the way that aviationweather.gov changed its API calls, I decided it's finally time to bring this out of perpetual beta. This is what I consider a "what is possible" kind-of script... Categorized under "Smart Home", purely for fun, pulling weather data from various sources, extracting data from XML and displaying it in a semi-orderly fashion within an SSH window on your router! ENJOY!

What's new!?
v0.5 - (January 15, 2024)
* MAJOR: Official release! It's been a long time coming. Please know this is just a "what is possible" kind of script. It serves no purpose other than seeing what can be done with API weather feeds, extracting data from XML and displaying it in an orderly fashion on the screen. Purely for enjoyment, if you'd rather get your local weather in an SSH window on your router vs. one of the many old, tired web-based weather services/apps out there.
* FIXED: aviationweather.gov recently decided to change their API methods, and had to make some fixes in order to get the Aviation weather working again. Decided it was time to freshen things up, get this out of beta, and on the streets!
* FIXED: After update, script will automatically run with the new version instead of having to exit out and run the script again.
* MINOR: General enhancements to overall look & feel, bringing it under the same standards as BACKUPMON at this point.

Download Link:

curl --retry 3 "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ViktorJp/WXMON/master/wxmon-0.5.sh" -o "/jffs/scripts/wxmon.sh" && chmod 755 "/jffs/scripts/wxmon.sh"

Significant Screenshots:

View attachment 55547

My Aviation WX appears to be blank using ROME (Rome NY USA). Any thoughts or suggestions?

   _       ___  __ __  _______  _   __
  | |     / / |/ //  |/  / __ \/ | / /  v0.5
  | | /| / /|   // /|_/ / / / /  |/ / (S)etup (F)orce Refresh
  | |/ |/ //   |/ /  / / /_/ / /|  / (A)viation WX
  |__/|__//_/|_/_/  /_/\____/_/ |_/ (E)xit

                          ROME Flight Rules                          

  Current Conditions:

                             ROME METAR                              



                              ROME TAF                              




(R)eturn to standard forecast?

 

[Viktor Jaep]

My Aviation WX appears to be blank using ROME (Rome NY USA). Any thoughts or suggestions?

   _       ___  __ __  _______  _   __
  | |     / / |/ //  |/  / __ \/ | / /  v0.5
  | | /| / /|   // /|_/ / / / /  |/ / (S)etup (F)orce Refresh
  | |/ |/ //   |/ /  / / /_/ / /|  / (A)viation WX
  |__/|__//_/|_/_/  /_/\____/_/ |_/ (E)xit

                          ROME Flight Rules                          

  Current Conditions:

                             ROME METAR                              



                              ROME TAF                              




(R)eturn to standard forecast?

Try KRME... that's the airport code

 

[Ripshod]

My Aviation WX appears to be blank using ROME (Rome NY USA). Any thoughts or suggestions?

   _       ___  __ __  _______  _   __
  | |     / / |/ //  |/  / __ \/ | / /  v0.5
  | | /| / /|   // /|_/ / / / /  |/ / (S)etup (F)orce Refresh
  | |/ |/ //   |/ /  / / /_/ / /|  / (A)viation WX
  |__/|__//_/|_/_/  /_/\____/_/ |_/ (E)xit

                          ROME Flight Rules                        

  Current Conditions:

                             ROME METAR                            



                              ROME TAF                            




(R)eturn to standard forecast?

Just Google for your local airport's ICAO code (for me Leeds-Bradford, UK is LBA EGNM).

 

[visortgw]

Try KRME... that's the airport code

That fixed it! Thanks.

 

[Viktor Jaep]

Will this be added to amtm at some point?

Nah, I wouldn't want it taking up precious space for scripts that are truly useful/important.

 

[Viktor Jaep]

Just Google for your local airport's ICAO code (for me Leeds-Bradford, UK is LBA EGNM).

Yep... Airport codes are typically always 4 letters. All major airports in the US start with "K". All major airports in the UK start with "E". But it definitely needs to be a valid ICAO code. Smaller airports that don't conform to the ICAO code may not provide weather through the API. If you're not getting weather from your local airport, try the next bigger closest airport to you.

 

[bluzfanmr1]

View attachment 48141

The details and the weather markings are awesome. We will know the best flight times for next week!

Thank you for this, it inspired me to get a cheap tablet on Black Friday...

 

[Viktor Jaep]

Coupla small tweaks and versioning change... and a major versioning do-over from v0.5!

What's new?
v1.1.4 - (February 7, 2024)
- PATCH: Changed the versioning logic to align with the general accepted way of versioning, using the notation: major.minor.patch... finally, right? After seeing @thelonelycoder changing his ways, I figured it was probably time for me as well. All my scripts moving forward will go this route. Change log wording is now changed to conform to the major/minor/patch standards. So previously, FIXED now conforms to PATCH, ADDED conforms to MINOR, and MAJOR stays the same!
- PATCH: Going to call a do-over on the versioning of v0.5. Technically an official release, so MAJOR: 1, MINOR: 1, PATCH: 4 based on the changelog between Jan 15 and Feb 7. Welcome to v1.1.4!

Download link (or update directly within WXMON!):

curl --retry 3 "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ViktorJp/WXMON/master/wxmon-1.1.4.sh" -o "/jffs/scripts/wxmon.sh" && chmod 755 "/jffs/scripts/wxmon.sh"

 

[heysoundude]

Thank you for this, it inspired me to get a cheap tablet on Black Friday...
View attachment 55555

Now I want to find a way to get wxmon to report to the weather screen of my kodi htpc...and maybe my iphone home screen too...

 

[HardCat]

@Viktor Jaep

Possible Suggestion for enhancement, in the (A)viation WX would you consider breaking the METAR down into human readable format in addition to what's already there?

Also, is it possible to change the Airport ICAO code in Aviation WX? This would be really useful for anyone that uses Microsoft Flight Simulator.

For your consideration...

 

[Viktor Jaep]

@Viktor Jaep

Possible Suggestion for enhancement, in the (A)viation WX would you consider breaking the METAR down into human readable format in addition to what's already there?

Also, is it possible to change the Airport ICAO code in Aviation WX? This would be really useful for anyone that uses Microsoft Flight Simulator.

For your consideration...

Unfortunately the information I get from the aviation weather API sources don't provide it in human readable format. What you see is what you get. But isn't that half the fun? Gives you good practice for learning how to read these. But yeah, you can change the ICAO code in the setup menu to whichever airport you want. If you don't get weather information back (for smaller uncontrolled fields), you probably want to choose the nearest larger airport.