Voice aviation weather checker
Checks current weather (METAR) or forecast (TAF) at a given airport on https://mycroft.ai/ platform.
- "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
This skill uses FAA's Aviation Digital Data Service: https://www.aviationweather.gov/adds/.
pasniak
Productivity Aviation
#Weather #airport
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.