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marens

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Re: MyForecast Script

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)

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asqwerth

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Re: MyForecast Script

@marens

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

marens

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Re: MyForecast Script

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)

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marens

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Re: MyForecast Script

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

Thanks!

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marens

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Re: MyForecast Script

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

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marens

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Re: MyForecast Script

^ 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

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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. 

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marens

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Re: MyForecast Script

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}

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marens

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Re: MyForecast Script

^ 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:
   

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Re: MyForecast Script

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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asqwerth

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Re: MyForecast Script

@marens, for roughly the past 1 week, both the MF and the TAD scripts haven't been able to pull in any weather data.  So all the generated data files that should have text are empty.

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Re: MyForecast Script

@asqwert, no problems here (except that something has been postponed again). It must be due to your location...

marens

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Re: MyForecast Script

@marens, for roughly the past 1 week, both the MF and the TAD scripts haven't been able to pull in any weather data.  So all the generated data files that should have text are empty.

Both scripts work here.

MF Conky:

Did you change anything?
Are the folders in the same location (HOME)?

The best way to check is from the terminal.
Run the script once  (for MF):

bash $HOME/MyForecast/myforecast

Are there any errors?

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asqwerth

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Re: MyForecast Script

I had not changed anything in the script or its file location all this while.  It's still in $HOME/MyForecast under the same name.  It just stopped pulling data about a week ago even though when I visit the myforecast.com webpage for my location, all the weather data is there.  Running the script in terminal gives me this:

$ bash myforecast
cp: -r not specified; omitting directory '/home/tuaz/MyForecast/myforecast-icons/'
cp: cannot stat '/home/tuaz/MyForecast/wind/.png': No such file or directory
cp: -r not specified; omitting directory '/home/tuaz/MyForecast/myforecast-icons/'
cp: -r not specified; omitting directory '/home/tuaz/MyForecast/myforecast-icons/'
cp: -r not specified; omitting directory '/home/tuaz/MyForecast/myforecast-icons/'
cp: -r not specified; omitting directory '/home/tuaz/MyForecast/myforecast-icons/'
cp: -r not specified; omitting directory '/home/tuaz/MyForecast/myforecast-icons/'
cp: -r not specified; omitting directory '/home/tuaz/MyForecast/myforecast-icons/'
cp: -r not specified; omitting directory '/home/tuaz/MyForecast/myforecast-icons/'
cp: -r not specified; omitting directory '/home/tuaz/MyForecast/myforecast-icons/'
cp: -r not specified; omitting directory '/home/tuaz/MyForecast/myforecast-icons/'
cp: -r not specified; omitting directory '/home/tuaz/MyForecast/myforecast-icons/'
cp: -r not specified; omitting directory '/home/tuaz/MyForecast/myforecast-icons/'
cp: -r not specified; omitting directory '/home/tuaz/MyForecast/myforecast-icons/'
cp: -r not specified; omitting directory '/home/tuaz/MyForecast/myforecast-icons/'
cp: -r not specified; omitting directory '/home/tuaz/MyForecast/myforecast-icons/'
cp: -r not specified; omitting directory '/home/tuaz/MyForecast/myforecast-icons/'

Like I said, all the data files in the $HOME/MyForecast folder are empty.

I haven't suddenly started using a different firewall or vpn or whatever.

Last edited by asqwerth (Today 08:33:07)

marens

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Re: MyForecast Script

Like I said, all the data files in the $HOME/MyForecast folder are empty.

1) Run these two commands (for Paris,FR) from the terminal and check if the files weather_raw and hourly_raw are empty?

Daily:

curl -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:80.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/80.0' "https://www.myforecast.com/index.php?cwid=gn2968815&metric=true&city_count=&zip_code=&condition=act&data=216802302&lang=english" > $HOME/MyForecast/weather_raw

Hourly:

curl -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:80.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/80.0' "https://www.myforecast.com/hourly-forecast.php?cwid=gn2968815&metric=true&city_count=&zip_code=&condition=act&data=450162476&lang=english" > $HOME/MyForecast/hourly/hourly_raw

2) Check the folder /home/tuaz/MyForecast/myforecast-icons.
I know you often change icons; perhaps you didn't rename them correctly (as the script expects).

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asqwerth

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Re: MyForecast Script

@marens, running those 2 commands worked, so I re-ran the commands with my city code instead, and those worked, too.  I examined the address_daily and address_hourly strings defined in the script, and noted that they were different. 

From what I can see, previously when I first accessed the website to search for my city's weather page in order to obtain the URL for the script, the URL was "http://myforecast...." without the "www." in front.

Now however, searching for my city leads to a URL with the "www." in front.  Once I added that into the script, everything works again.

Thanks for providing the clue that led to the solution.

[ADDED] currently only data related to today's weather is present in all text files.  All data related to forecast of subsequent days is absent.

Last edited by asqwerth (Today 17:40:05)

marens

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Re: MyForecast Script

^ Please go back to the first (#1) post here:
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 80#p150180

Pay attention to the lines below 'HOW?'.
I explained in detail how to find addresses (daily+hourly) in the correct way.

They are probably very different from the ones you are currently using.
Good luck!

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