Comments on: SenseHAT weather forecaster

By: blogmywiki

blogmywiki — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 12:19:58 +0000

Hi John – this is quite an old project and I’ve not looked at it in several years so I’m really out of touch with it – and the Raspberry Pi – I’m afraid. Is it possible feedparser is not installed for the same version of Python that you’re running the Python script in? Also that BBC weather RSS feed doesn’t seem to exist any more!
cheers
Giles

By: John Gleeson

John Gleeson — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 07:59:35 +0000

Hi just wondering how ye are getting this to run?
I’ve tried running it as a python file but it gives multiple errors such as Feedparser no module found when it is installed so thought I might be doing something wrong?
Any help would be appreciated.

By: Michael Spencer

Michael Spencer — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 23:18:31 +0000

bbc have changed their weather provider and the quoted url is no longer available.
try
https://weather-broker-cdn.api.bbci.co.uk/en/forecast/rss/3day/2643123
(manchester forecast)
see bbc web page
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/about/17543675
for further details

By: Thanael

Thanael — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 18:43:13 +0000

I asked a friend to help me write some code to display images based on the weather. We came up with a decent proof of concept today. All it currently does it parse the feed for phrases BBC weather likes to use and outputs a different coloured dot for each phrase. It also adds a dot for today/tomorrow/next day. From there, I will edit in proper images and add a temperature readout of some sort.

It’s very much proof of concept at the minute, but if anyone wants to use it as a base it’s at pastebin. Search the following, or append to the pastebin url:
A0gYmG16

By: Thanael

Thanael — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 17:43:21 +0000

Amazing! I’ll keep an eye on your blog then. Thank you!

By: blogmywiki

blogmywiki — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 16:02:15 +0000

Yes! I am actually hoping to do this in the next few weeks :)

By: Thanael

Thanael — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 19:56:18 +0000

Hey there :) This is exactly what I want to do with my sensehat – almost! Thank you for putting together this guide. My eyes cross when I try to figure out code though. Have you since created a version of the python script which displays today’s weather in picture form, along with the min/max temperature?

By: okahiro

okahiro — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 09:01:15 +0000

I inserted the following line just below the “counter = *” line to show title, including the data source (BBC) and city name faster. :-)

sense.show_message(d.feed.title, scroll_speed=0.05)

By: okahiro

okahiro — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 07:07:13 +0000

Thank you for the great job!
I made my Sense Hat a smart weather forecaster thanks to your job.
I had easily found ID of Yokohama from the following BBC website.
http://www.bbc.com/weather/
Just type the name of your town in the field “Find a Forecast” and push enter key.
Then, you will automatically jump to the page having URL “http://www.bbc.com/weather/???????”.
In case of Yokohama, ??????? is 1848354.

By: blogmywiki

blogmywiki — Sat, 26 Dec 2015 11:28:16 +0000

Hope you enjoy it! Are you using a different RSS feed?