crappytan/habpanel-widget-openweathermap

OpenWeatherMap widget for HABPanel (OpenHAB)

OpenWeatherMap widget for HABPanel (OpenHAB)

Description

OpenWeatherMap widget for HABPanel (OpenHAB). It's build for use with the free API key, no paid subscription is nescacary.

Download

The widget json file and the images folder: habpanel-widget-openweathermap

Weather Underground icons: weather-icons

Installation

• Get a free API key from OpenWeatherMap.
• Install the OpenWeatherMap binding via PaperUI.
• Configure the Thing: OpenWeatherMap Account set your API key and set preferred settings.
• Configure the Thing: Local weather and forecast set Hours to 96 and days to 1 (to get forecast with free API key)
• If you havent done already, change your locality of Openhab in Paperui / Configuration / System / Regional Settings and restart Openhab and clear your browsers cache. This way the Widget will follow te locallity with transforming the dates and units.
• Create a folder within '/conf/html/' folder, lets assume you named it 'openweathermap'.
• Extract the 'weather-icons-master.zip' and place the 'weather-icons-master' folder in the '/conf/html/openweathermap/' folder.
• Place the 'images' folder in the '/conf/html/openweathermap/' folder.
• Add the items to an items file, see this post for the items. Change the id in the channel to your 'Local weather and forecast' thing id.
• Import the downloaded openweathermap.widget.json widget to your HABpanel.
• Add the widget to a dashboard, open the settings.
  • Set the path to the HTML url like '/static/openweathermap/' ('/static/' is the outside url for the path '/conf/html/')
  • Customize the look and feel with the colors and sizes.
  • Save the widget en size it to your likings.
  • Enjoy en drop me a like here on the Openhab cummunity forum.

The complete structure would look like this:

• /conf/html
  • /openweathermap
    • /weather-icons-master
    • /images
      • feel.png
      • humidity.png
      • wind.png

Help

If you need any help, use this topic on the Openhab community forum.

For issues and feature requests, please use the Issues module on Github.