MyForecast Script

marens · 2026-05-01 15:04:39

asqwerth wrote:

It's not great where I live as I get lots of thunderstorms, and the icons for that weather condition have black coloured clouds. The black doesn't stand out against the desktop background.

I did a simulation and can confirm:

If I use the icons above it looks fine:
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 98#p150498

Last edited by marens (2026-05-01 18:54:28)

asqwerth · 2026-05-02 03:42:39

@marens

Thanks for the recoloured icons. The icon set works great now.

marens · 2026-05-06 17:40:20

Info

The MyForecast script with all changes/improvements is at the end of this post:
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 80#p150180

Last edited by marens (2026-05-07 23:50:40)

marens · 2026-05-10 01:05:40

Please, be sure to read this:
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 39#p150739

Thanks!

marens · 2026-05-14 13:55:20

Last night the MyForecast website was down for about an hour:

All files needed by mf-conky were empty.

If necessary, you can always check here:
https://onlineornot.com/website-down-checker

P.S.
If this happens more often, I can easily prevent the myforecast script from generating empty files as done here:
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 02#p150702

marens · 2026-05-16 01:18:40

^ OK.
If you want, you can test together with me.

This is what the beginning of the myforecast script where the curl commands are located should look like:

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curl -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:80.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/80.0' -s "$address_daily" > $HOME/MyForecast/weather_raw

    check1=$(cat $HOME/MyForecast/weather_raw)   

sleep 1.4

curl -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:80.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/80.0' -s "$address_hourly" > $HOME/MyForecast/hourly/hourly_raw

    check2=$(cat $HOME/MyForecast/hourly/hourly_raw)

    if [[ $check1 =~ "Internal Server Error" || $check2 =~ "Internal Server Error" ]]; then
      
      echo '* Server Error' > $HOME/MyForecast/server_error
  
       exit 0
       
    fi
    

#### NOW FORECAST

> $HOME/MyForecast/server_error

---

Then open the ~/MyForecast folder and create a server_error file inside.
The myforecast script will generate a "* Server Error" line in the server_error file if the website is offline.

Done.

Now it needs to be displayed in mf-conky (if it happens).
It was easy for me because I have the word Weather in the title.

${voffset 8}${goto 10}${color 48bcff}WEATHER${color}\
${font :size=9}${color ff8080}${goto 120}${texeci 90 sed -n '1p' $HOME/MyForecast/server_error}${color}${font}\
${texeci 1800 bash $HOME/MyForecast/myforecast}   ...

The screenshot above is of course a simulation.
I opened the file ~/MyForecast/server_error using a text editor and entered the line: * Server Error.

After that I just waited for the warning to appear in mf-conky.
The warning disappeared the next time mf-conky ran the myforecast script.

marens · 2026-06-10 19:12:50

MF Conky - Show Update

Unlike the TAD script, which executes in about a second, it takes a little longer here because the hourly forecast is very large (7 days x 24 hours).
I played around a bit and decided to show the update in mf-conky.

When the update starts, the image update.png will appear as 0.png (now icon).

After downloading (a few seconds), a new image 0.png is returned.

I found a suitable image (update.png), modified it a bit and now it looks like this:
https://i.postimg.cc/wjqMb0KC/update.png

Just copy/paste the image into the ~/MyForecast folder.

All that remains is to edit mf-conky by adding the cp command before running the myforecast script.
The interval must of course be the same (in my case 1800 seconds):

${texeci 1800 cp $HOME/MyForecast/update.png $HOME/MyForecast/0.png}\
${texeci 1800 bash $HOME/MyForecast/myforecast}

marens · 2026-06-11 18:08:40

^ Oh.
I'm starting to like this effect.

It looks much better than the weather conditions in the next few hours.

Start of update: After a few seconds:

marens · Today 15:40:50

Hourly Forecast (Time Format)

The myforecast script already includes the file ~/MyForecast/hourly/time, which displays the next eight hours.
However, most people here (myself included) do not use that file for mf-conky.

@ceeslans has shown here what the only correct way looks like:
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 14#p150214

So why don't we use the best way?

We mostly use date or similar commands for the next hours.
That is fine because the website is updated regularly, but it is still not the most accurate.

Probably due to the time format, since we generally prefer HH:MM.
If that is the reason, let's convert time into the desired format.

Open the myforecast script and add this to the end:

## Convert Time (HH:MM)

#function: convert_time_h
	convert_time_h ()
	{
		hours=$(echo $1|awk -F ":| " '{print $1}')
		am_or_pm=$(echo $1|awk -F ":| " '{print $2}')
		if [[ $am_or_pm == "" ]]; then
			echo $1
			return 0
		elif [[ $am_or_pm == AM ]]; then
			if (( $hours < 10 )); then
				hours_24=0$hours
			fi
			if (( $hours == 10 || $hours == 11 )); then
				hours_24=$hours
			fi
			if (( $hours == 12 )); then
				hours_24=00
			fi
		elif [[ $am_or_pm == PM ]]; then
			if (( $hours != 12 )); then
				hours_24=$((hours+12))
			fi
			if (( $hours == 12 )); then
				hours_24=12
			fi
		fi
		time_24=$hours_24:00
		echo $time_24
	}
	
	
	# Convert time
	for (( i=1; i<=8; i+=1 ))
		  do
		   h=$(sed -n ${i}p $HOME/MyForecast/hourly/time)
			  sed -i ${i}s/^.*$/$(convert_time_h "$h")/ $HOME/MyForecast/hourly/time
		  done

Now we can use the most accurate way to display the next hours in mf-conky.
Enjoy.

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