Weather Magnet Spark-Core

WiFi connected Weather magnet using Particle(spark) Core and 4 digit 7 Segment display

####Building Tutorial Coming Soon

Digit Configuration

1, 2 & 3 - Shows the temperature
4 - Shows the weather status (see status codes)

Status Codes

• U - Unknown
• t - Thunders
• C - Clear sky
• o - Partly Overcast
• O - Overcast
• d - Drizzle
• r - Rain
• S - Snow
• F - Fog or Mist
• E - Extreme

Configuration

• Create a free account in openweathermap.org and create appid
• Add appid in the weather.json.
• Change the City name to yours.
• Change units to imperial, if you want temperature in farenheit.
• Check the api call using this URL (Change attributes according to the config) http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=stockholm,SE&units=metric&appid=<App-ID>

Creating Webhook

Once configuration is done and checked, Use particle webhook create webhook.json command to create the webhook.

How to Build Firmware

Using Online IDE

• Copy the content of weather.app in a new project
• Add the library elapsedMillis from builtin libraries
• Verify and Flash

Manual build for core

• Get base firmware from https://github.com/spark/firmware
• Copy the folder weather to user/applications
• cd to the main folder in base directory
• Build using make clean all PLATFORM=core PARTICLE_DEVELOP=1 APP=weather

Schematics

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