Taranis: Local weather data on your PocketBook e-book reader

[orontee]

I am happy to announce the first release of Taranis an application to consult weather data.

The executable can be downloaded from Github.

Feedbacks, comments and contributions are welcome!

Features of this version are:

• Current weather
• 24 hourly forecasts with temperature, wind speed, humidity, temperature curve and precipitations histogram
• Configurable system of units

Weather data is provided by OpenWeather.

Thanks for reading!

[orontee]

Sorry I posted a malformed URL... I am not used to the forum's markup. Here is a hopefully functional link: Github.

Learning the markup language I see it's possible to post images; So here is the unavoidable screenshot:

[orontee]

[neil_swann80]

Works great on my HD3. Nicely done!



Do you think you could add a view where you can squeeze the three pages of 8 hour segments onto a single page? Taking a screenshot of the weather to have as the sleep/off wallpapers would be really useful. Maybe even add the functionality of setting as a wallpaper into the menu?

Is it feasible to add touch control (swipe between pages) and a scheduled auto-refresh? And perhaps the option of storing a few favourite weather locations?

[EastEriq]

no joy on PB631, FW 5,20:

/mnt/ext1/applications # ./taranis.app 
Atached mp shm: id 0 addr 2d135000 size 21736
epdc_default_init
epdc_default_rotate: w=1072 h=1448 scan=1088 mem=1695744
program_name = [./taranis.app], basename = [taranis.app], init_string = [/P7.Sink=Null /P7.Pool=128 /P7.Format="{%ts}[%fs:%fl] %lv %ms"]
program init string = [(null)]
default init string = [(null)]
Atached mqueue: id 8001
attach_shm: mtfb key=251331793 size=1666724
Atached mtfb shm: id 11000b addr 2d405000 size 1666724
-------------------------
The task - taranis.app fb 0x2d405000
 xres=1072 yres=1448 scanline=1072 vdepth=8 orient=0
-------------------------
attach_shm: ref key=2130378752 size=1560832
Atached ref shm: id 8001 addr 2d663000 size 1560832
[hw_setglobalkeymask] gka0 = 4000002; gka1 = c800002; gka2 = 800000
OpenTheme: /ebrmain/themes/Line.pbt
Theme real name: Line
ts: loading default calibration values
TOUCHMATRIX: 0 10000 0 0 0 10000
./taranis.app: symbol lookup error: ./taranis.app: undefined symbol: BitmapStretchProportionally

[orontee]

Originally Posted by neil_swann80

Works great on my HD3. Nicely done!

(...) Do you think you could add a view where you can squeeze the three pages of 8 hour segments onto a single page?

Well, it's not a priority because it implies almost a full rewrite .

Originally Posted by neil_swann80

Taking a screenshot of the weather to have as the sleep/off wallpapers would be really useful. Maybe even add the functionality of setting as a wallpaper into the menu?

Is it feasible to add touch control (swipe between pages) and a scheduled auto-refresh? And perhaps the option of storing a few favourite weather locations?

Thank you for your valuable suggestions. I completed the backlog. I'll comment there on the feasibility.

Many thanks for the feedback!

[orontee]

Originally Posted by EastEriq

no joy on PB631, FW 5,20:

(...)
./taranis.app: symbol lookup error: ./taranis.app: undefined symbol: BitmapStretchProportionally

Arf, sorry, I forgot to advertise that it's develop with SDK 6.3.0. I'll add a check at startup.

It's easy to remove the use of BitmapStrechProportionally from Taranis implementation, but I've no idea of the other differences between 5.2.x and 6.3.x firmwares. If anybody knows, comments welcome: Use this please
https://github.com/orontee/taranis/issues/29

[neil_swann80]

Originally Posted by orontee

Well, it's not a priority because it implies almost a full rewrite

I feared that may be the case.

How about a view that has the same 8 segment layout, but showing data for ever 2 hours rather than hourly? Could that be achieved without an extensive re-write? Having the 0700-2200 forecast data on a single page would be adequate for a daily wallpaper then.

[orontee]

Originally Posted by neil_swann80

I feared that may be the case.

How about a view that has the same 8 segment layout, but showing data for ever 2 hours rather than hourly? Could that be achieved without an extensive re-write? Having the 0700-2200 forecast data on a single page would be adequate for a daily wallpaper then.

In fact, I already planned to add a second view with a 8 segment layout: A 8-days forecast view but may be I should reconsider that. I'll think of it.

[neil_swann80]

Originally Posted by orontee

In fact, I already planned to add a second view with a 8 segment layout: A 8-days forecast view but may be I should reconsider that. I'll think of it.

An 8 day forecast is also a great idea, likely better for setting as a wallpaper,

Where did you find the documentation for inkview functions? I've been dabbling with the PBSDK myself, but am having problems finding much info about it.

[Cyfranek]

Thanks a lot. It works fine on InkPad 4, but there are:
- some empty places every four hours or so;
- translation problem in description - "Bezchmurnie" (clear sky) is OK, but "Felt" is not in Polish;
- there are "strange" time periods like 17:59 instead of 18:00...

[neil_swann80]

@Cyfranek - random query... how do you post a thumbnail? It's been bothering (and evading) me for a while.

[Cyfranek]

Originally Posted by neil_swann80

@Cyfranek - random query... how do you post a thumbnail? It's been bothering (and evading) me for a while.

There is an "Additional Options" box below comment window. You can use "Attach Files" option. You have to "upload" file there

[orontee]

Originally Posted by Cyfranek

Thanks a lot. It works fine on InkPad 4, but there are:
- some empty places every four hours or so;
- translation problem in description - "Bezchmurnie" (clear sky) is OK, but "Felt" is not in Polish;
- there are "strange" time periods like 17:59 instead of 18:00...

I'll try to reproduce empty places and strange time periods using the same location (Nice city by the way!).

The translation of the weather description is not performed by the application, but by Openweather themselves. Sorry for that.

Many thanks for the feedback!

[orontee]

Originally Posted by neil_swann80

An 8 day forecast is also a great idea, likely better for setting as a wallpaper,

Where did you find the documentation for inkview functions? I've been dabbling with the PBSDK myself, but am having problems finding much info about it.

I found an official PDF, not very useful from my pov. I read the file inkview.h many times, guessing, trying, etc. Finally, my other source was the source code of other projects. They are referred here https://github.com/orontee/taranis/b....md#references.