Kobo Wifi Weather Forecast

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by insanoff

Could you explain a bit more about firmware patch? Maybe some link?

Not really as I don't use the patches myself. But, just look around as there are a lot of threads about it.

[insanoff]

Originally Posted by davidfor

Not really as I don't use the patches myself. But, just look around as there are a lot of threads about it.

I have managed to setup the device manually updating it to FW v3.11 and adding user into DB. Let's see if telnet works.

[insanoff]

Now I have successfully installed Python and Pygame, started the weather.sh, but unfortunately it does not work after giving the coordinates. And screen is upside down now. Any idea?

[RDTymko]

Been trying for about four hours now to get weather working. slowly I am getting past some errors... Im stuck on...

UnboundLocalError: local variable 'weather_link' referenced before assignment.

Im on a Kobo Wifi version 1.9.12. Any Ideas?

[Danchvn]

Hello all.
I know this is an old topic but I was wondering if anyone still had this working.
I have an old Kobl Wifi i was trying to install it on and have been running into some problems. Reading through the comments I see that the weather link had changed so I signed up and received an API but I'm not sure what URL to use as the one with "weather.ashx" no longer seems to exist but there is "/current.xml" or "forecast.xml".
Right now I have the weather_link set up as weather_link='http://api.weatherapi.com/v1/current.xml?q={0},{1}&format=xml&num_of_days=5&key =[my API]'.format(lat, lon) and when I start weather.sh via telnet i get the below error.
Just wondering if anyone is able to provide me some assistance as I'm really not sure what this all means.

[I][root@(none) /]# /mnt/onboard/.python/weather.sh Kobo Wifi weather forecast started. Getting weather information . . . Creating image . . . Traceback (most recent call last): File "weather.py", line 363, in <module> get_weather_data() File "weather.py", line 108, in get_weather_data display(days, highs, lows, conditions, img_links, unit) File "weather.py", line 145, in display high_temp = comfortaa.render(highs[0], True, black, white) IndexError: list index out of range [root@(none) /]#

Thanks a lot
Dan

[Elektron]

aura h2o2?

[Elektron]

Wondering if this hack works with Kobo Aura H2O2 or Mini?

[dom]

I tested this on a Kobo Libra Colour with the latest firmware and got a segmentation fault when executing

/mnt/onboard/.python/weather.sh

telnet 192.168.179.13 1023
Trying 192.168.179.13...
Connected to kobo.fritz.box.
Escape character is '^]'.

kobo login: admin
Password:
login: can't change directory to '/home/admin'
[root@kobo ~]# echo C > /mnt/onboard/.apps/koboWeather/unit.txt
[root@kobo ~]# cat /mnt/onboard/.apps/koboWeather/unit.txt
C
[root@kobo ~]# /mnt/onboard/.python/install-python.sh
Installing python and pygame libraries . . .
Python successfully installed!
[root@kobo ~]# /mnt/onboard/.python/weather.sh

For the weather forecast to work, please enter your latitude and longitude.
There is an easy to use map at http://stereopsis.com/flux/map.html

Enter your latitude: XX.XXXXX
Enter your longitude: XX.XXXX
Just a moment . . .
Segmentation fault

[root@kobo ~]# cd /mnt/onboard/.apps/koboWeather
[root@kobo koboWeather]# ls -l
total 704
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         97908 Mar 21  2011 Cabin-Regular.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        169096 Jan  2  2012 Comfortaa-Regular.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         16312 May  1  2011 Fabrica.otf
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        303316 Oct 16  2012 Forum-Regular.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           391 Oct 20  2012 autoupdate.sh
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root            42 Oct 19  2012 cron
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         16384 Jun  2 11:16 icons
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root            16 Jun  2 12:18 location
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           361 Oct 19  2012 set_location.sh
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root             2 Jun  2 12:17 unit.txt
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         11904 Nov  2  2012 weather.py
[root@kobo koboWeather]# python --version
Python 2.7.2
[root@kobo koboWeather]# python weather.py
Segmentation fault

When taking a look at the bash script

#!/bin/sh
if [ ! -f /mnt/onboard/.apps/koboWeather/location ];
then
    /mnt/onboard/.apps/koboWeather/set_location.sh
    echo "Just a moment . . ."
fi

echo 1 > /sys/class/graphics/fb0/rotate
cd /mnt/onboard/.apps/koboWeather
python weather.py

the part that does not work and needs a fix is the Python script weather.py

[PeterT]

Actually the part failing is the python executable itself; not the script.

I believe it will be related to changes in the underlying hardware between the Kobo Wifi and modern devices.

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