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Weather Pal

A simple display for weather forecasts.

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This is a very simple example of using ESP8266 with MicroPython and a #D1 Mini Matrix Shield to make a weather forecast display. It will stand in my hall, connected to a phone charger, so that I won't forget an umbrella when leaving.

  • 1 × D1 Mini Lite
  • 1 × Mini Matrix Shield

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    deʃhipu04/01/2017 at 19:00 0 comments

    The code is far from pretty, but it works (at least as long as something goes wrong and it crashes). It gets the current weather information from the OpenWeatherMap API, and displays the icon and temperature, alternating them every 4 seconds. The particular prototype shield I used for testing also has 2 buttons, but they are not used by the code.

    import utime
    from machine import I2C, Pin
    from ht16k33_matrix import Matrix8x8
    import json
    import urequests
    
    
    API_KEY = "generate your own"
    CITY = "Zuirich"
    ICONS = {
        '00': (
            0b00000000,
            0b01000010,
            0b00100100,
            0b00011000,
            0b00011000,
            0b00100100,
            0b01000010,
            0b00000000,
        ),
        '01': (
            0b00010000,
            0b01010010,
            0b00111100,
            0b00111111,
            0b11111100,
            0b00111100,
            0b01001010,
            0b00001000,
        ),
        '02': (
            0b00010000,
            0b01010100,
            0b00111000,
            0b11111110,
            0b01000100,
            0b10000010,
            0b10000001,
            0b01111110,
        ),
        '03': (
            0b00000000,
            0b00000000,
            0b00000000,
            0b00111000,
            0b01000100,
            0b10000010,
            0b10000001,
            0b01111110,
        ),
        '04': (
            0b01100000,
            0b10011000,
            0b10000100,
            0b01111000,
            0b01000100,
            0b10000010,
            0b10000001,
            0b01111110,
        ),
        '09': (
            0b00111100,
            0b01111110,
            0b11111111,
            0b11111111,
            0b10001001,
            0b00001000,
            0b00101000,
            0b00111000,
        ),
        '10': (
            0b00101010,
            0b00011100,
            0b01111111,
            0b00011100,
            0b01111010,
            0b11111100,
            0b00010000,
            0b00110000,
        ),
        '11': (
            0b00001111,
            0b00011110,
            0b00111100,
            0b01111111,
            0b11111110,
            0b00000100,
            0b00001000,
            0b00010000,
        ),
        '13': (
            0b01010010,
            0b11010011,
            0b00111100,
            0b00100111,
            0b11100100,
            0b00111100,
            0b11001011,
            0b01001010,
        ),
        '50': (
            0b11111111,
            0b00000000,
            0b11111111,
            0b00000000,
            0b11111111,
            0b00000000,
            0b11111111,
            0b00000000,
        ),
    }
    DIGITS = {
        ' ': (
            0b0000,
            0b0000,
            0b0000,
            0b0000,
            0b0000,
        ),
        '0': (
            0b0111,
            0b0101,
            0b0101,
            0b0101,
            0b0111,
        ),
        '1': (
            0b0010,
            0b0010,
            0b0010,
            0b0010,
            0b0010,
        ),
        '2': (
            0b0111,
            0b0001,
            0b0111,
            0b0100,
            0b0111,
        ),
        '3': (
            0b0111,
            0b0001,
            0b0111,
            0b0001,
            0b0111,
        ),
        '4': (
            0b0101,
            0b0101,
            0b0111,
            0b0001,
            0b0001,
        ),
        '5': (
            0b0111,
            0b0100,
            0b0111,
            0b0001,
            0b0111,
        ),
        '6': (
            0b0111,
            0b0100,
            0b0111,
            0b0101,
            0b0111,
        ),
        '7': (
            0b0111,
            0b0001,
            0b0001,
            0b0001,
            0b0001,
        ),
        '8': (
            0b0111,
            0b0101,
            0b0111,
            0b0101,
            0b0111,
        ),
        '9': (
            0b0111,
            0b0101,
            0b0111,
            0b0001,
            0b0001,
        ),
        ':': (
            0b0000,
            0b0001,
            0b0000,
            0b0001,
            0b0000,
        ),
        '.': (
            0b0000,
            0b0000,
            0b0000,
            0b0000,
            0b0001,
        ),
        '-': (
            0b0000,
            0b0000,
            0b0001,
            0b0000,
            0b0000,
        ),
    }
    
    matrix = Matrix8x8(I2C(-1, Pin(5), Pin(4)))
    wait = 0
    
    
    def show(image, dx=0, dy=0):
        for y, row in enumerate(image):
            bit = 1
            for x in range(8):
                matrix.pixel(dx + x, dy + y, row & bit)
                bit <<= 1
        matrix.show()
    
    
    def show_text(text):
        x = 0
        for c in reversed(text):
            if c in '.:-':
                show(DIGITS.get(c, DIGITS[' ']), x - 1, 1)
            else:
                show(DIGITS.get(c, DIGITS[' ']), x, 1)
                x += 4
    
    
    def get_weather():
        r = urequests.get("http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather"
                          "?q=%s&appid=%s" % (CITY, API_KEY)).json()
        return r["weather"][0]["icon"], int(r["main"]["temp"] - 273.15)
    
    
    while True:
        if wait <= 0:
            icon, temp = get_weather()
            wait = 60
        if icon[-1] == 'd':
            matrix.brightness(9)
        else:
            matrix.brightness(2)
        matrix.fill(0)
        show_text('%2d' % temp)
        utime.sleep(4)
        show(ICONS[icon[:2]])
        utime.sleep(4)
        wait -= 1
    

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danjovic wrote 04/02/2017 at 19:47 point

What an mazing project, pal!!! 

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