pasniak/aviation-weather-skill

Mycroft skill to check current weather at an airport (a METAR)

Aviation Weather

Voice aviation weather checker

About

Checks current weather (METAR) or forecast (TAF) at a given airport on https://mycroft.ai/ platform.

Examples

• "metar KJFK" (for New York's JFK)
• "airport KTTN" (for TTN in Trenton, NJ)
• "airport LFPG" (for Paris CDG)
• "terminal KJFK" (for New York City forecast TAF) - work in progress
• "taf KJFK"

A reply will be something along:

Metar for KTTN
Observed 53 minutes ago
VFR
Temperature 18.3 Celsius
Dewpoint 10.0
Wind 230
5 knots
Visibility 10 miles
sky clear

Third party

This skill uses FAA's Aviation Digital Data Service: https://www.aviationweather.gov/adds/.

Credits

pasniak

Category

Productivity Aviation

Tags

#Weather #airport

Installation

Once you ssh to your PiCroft:

In mycroft-cli-client, type:

install https://github.com/pasniak/aviation-weather-skill

and follow the installation (confirm yes). After a while you should hear aviation weather is now installed and ready for use.

Alternatively, in the shell execute:

cd /opt/mycroft/skills
git clone https://github.com/pasniak/aviation-weather-skill

Wait a bit until mycroft service updates your skills.