Kobo Wifi Weather Forecast

[KevinShort]

Originally Posted by barobach_so

hi
Does it work on Aura H2O ?
and another Question: does this weather app show instead of Nickel or we have both by changing key ?

I have not tested it myself on the Aura H2O, but it should work. The weather app cannot run at the same time as Nickel, you have to stop Nickel to start the weather app.

[Bob Brunius]

Using the file in this thread I got the telnet and ftp connections going on my H2O. However, the ftp connection is terminated after about 2 minutes of inactivity. The wifi connection is terminated rather quickly too if I don't have the experimental browser loaded. Is there something I can do to extend the connection time?

[andyh2000]

Originally Posted by Bob Brunius

Using the file in this thread I got the telnet and ftp connections going on my H2O. However, the ftp connection is terminated after about 2 minutes of inactivity. The wifi connection is terminated rather quickly too if I don't have the experimental browser loaded. Is there something I can do to extend the connection time?

Have you killed the "nickel" process? If you don't I think it drops the wifi connection when idle.

Andrew

[Bob Brunius]

Andy, I'll try killing the nickel process.

Do you know how to start and stop the web browser using the console terminal? Because it's full screen every time I do a revision to the the html file I have to use the power button to power down and then back up again and go through the menu to restart the browser.

I'm looking at the process list under "top" but I can't identify the process or name.

[Bob Brunius]

Andy,

Killing nickel also kills the web browser. The browser doesn't get a separate process id.

[andyh2000]

Originally Posted by Bob Brunius

Andy,

Killing nickel also kills the web browser. The browser doesn't get a separate process id.

I don't use the browser for my application so can't help I'm afraid. After a reboot I start the browser just to get the wifi connection up then I telnet in and kill nickel. My weather and calendar displays then run every hour under cron and update the screen from the python script.

Andrew

[Bob Brunius]

WEATHER APP ON H2O

Originally Posted by barobach_so

hi
Does it work on Aura H2O ?
and another Question: does this weather app show instead of Nickel or we have both by changing key ?

I just tried it on the H2O. It went as described on the OP but after it asked for my LAT and LON coordinates then it flipped the settings screen upside down and went away.

I had to restart the H2O and now when I run the command:

/mnt/onboard/.python/weather.sh

the weather screen does not come up but the stuff under the main menu shows up upside down. Inverted 180degs. The touch screen commands think the screen is still rightside up so you can't just turn it and use it. Powering of and back on restores the correct orientation. Something is wrong.

[Bob Brunius]

I thought the problem might be that the image file might have to be different for the H2O. But the write to /tmp/img.raw at line 31 in weather.py is not happening at all so something else is up.

Where does python leave its error logs?

[jjmcousineau]

Hello,

I just found this article, and I realise its quite old now but hopefully someone can help. I am getting a URL error, I am imaging that the weather service in the original is no longer around or something. Or maybe I am reading this wrong.

Either way here is the error and I would appreciate any help.

[root@(none) koboWeather]# /mnt/onboard/.python/weather.sh
Kobo Wifi weather forecast started.
Getting weather information . . .
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "weather.py", line 363, in <module>
    get_weather_data()
  File "weather.py", line 53, in get_weather_data
    weather_xml = urllib2.urlopen(weather_link)
  File "/mnt/onboard/.python/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/mnt/onboard/.python/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 394, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/mnt/onboard/.python/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 412, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/mnt/onboard/.python/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 372, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/mnt/onboard/.python/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1199, in http_open
    return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
  File "/mnt/onboard/.python/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1174, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)
urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service not known>

[PeterT]

Look through this thread for some changes I posted that were needed due to changes in the website.

[jjmcousineau]

That was it, thanks for the help! I may return for advice as I wish to modify some things but I will attempt to do it on my own first of course.

[Ost_Jeanbruh]

can i go back to nickle and coolreader

[Khord]

Originally Posted by PeterT

Look through this thread for some changes I posted that were needed due to changes in the website.

Have there been further api changes since then? I tried your fixes (new api link and max / min temp) on page 9, and I still get the same error:

urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service not known>

Any advice would be appreciated.

[PeterT]

I'll check into it later. Remember though I've never actually installed it on a Kobo.

[Khord]

Originally Posted by PeterT

I'll check into it later. Remember though I've never actually installed it on a Kobo.

Ok, thanks in advance. I poked around a bit, and the API seems to get the XML output fine when testing it in a web browser:

http://api.worldweatheronline.com/free/v2/weather.ashx?q={0},{1}&format=xml&num_of_days=5&key=95f758b5c88e1b323c12bd1017202

I noticed maxtemp / mintemp appear to be maxtempF and mintempF, and I updated those in the .py file, but still the same error.