@weedorbeat good idea. I’ll put that on my list.

@Jopyth Thank you. Yes I will add it.
Sure I will fix it soon.

Hey @tajno,
they don’t really provide an API. I did a bit of reverse engineering on their website and found that you can get a JSON file with all the warnings for Germany for a specific time.
This JSON contains warnings for all regions (Landkreise) of Germany.
If you find an API for Switzerland I can help you to implement it.

I made some small changes to the formatting of the date. It now looks like this:

@iMAGiC wow that looks great =)

Welcome :)

@iMAGiC & @gshimself: thanks for your feedback. would it be possible, that one of you could post a picture of the module on a mirror. I just started building mine (don’t have the glass yet) and would like to know how it looks on a mirror. right now I can only look at it on my monitor.

Now it should work

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import codecs
import json
import subprocess

APP_ID = ''
FILE_PATH = 'test.txt'

url = 'http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?id=2934486&lang=de&units=metric&mode=json&appid=' + APP_ID
curl_req = 'curl -L ' + '"' + url + '"'
p = subprocess.Popen(curl_req, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True)
(output, err) = p.communicate()  
p_status = p.wait()

try:
    decoded = json.loads(output)
    weather = decoded['weather'][0]['description']
    temp = decoded['main']['temp']
    f = codecs.open(FILE_PATH,'w', 'utf-8')
    f.write('Today is ' + weather + ' and ' + str(temp) + ' degrees.')
    f.close()
except (ValueError, KeyError, TypeError):
    pass

@gismo2006 I think I got the problem. The german description can contain letters like äöü etc. i will fix that later when i’m at home.

@gismo2006 here it is. just place your app id and the path of the file, where the text should go.

import json
import subprocess

APP_ID = ''
FILE_PATH = 'test.txt'

url = 'http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?id=2934486&lang=de&units=metric&mode=json&appid=' + APP_ID
curl_req = 'curl -L ' + '"' + url + '"'
p = subprocess.Popen(curl_req, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True)
(output, err) = p.communicate()  
p_status = p.wait()

try:
    decoded = json.loads(output)
    weather = decoded['weather'][0]['description']
    temp = decoded['main']['temp']
    f = open(FILE_PATH,'w')
    f.write('Today is ' + weather + ' and ' + str(temp) + ' degrees.')
    f.close()
except (ValueError, KeyError, TypeError):
    pass

So here it is =)
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/986/mmm-globe

Hey guys,
here is a module for displaying live pictures of our planet on your mirror.
The pictures are taken from the Himawari-8 satellite.
It’s also possible to use custom pictures.

[card:LukeSkywalker92/MMM-Globe]

Preview:

Hope you’ll enjoy it =)

small preview =)

I’ll have to write a readme, then I’m done.
If you want to use a custom picture you just have to put your link in the config file and the module automatically uses this image.

@bibi I think you have to clone it to the modules folder. otherwise MagicMirror won’t find it. Just do it the normal way.

So I made a small test here:
[card:LukeSkywalker92/MMM-Globe]

so I could easily make the image update every x minutes and make configs for image-size and image-style just by changing the image-path.

@gizzmo this is also very interesting. It’s from the Himawari-8 satellite and almost live. there you could have very easily four different styles and you don’t need an api-key. I think your suggestions would be very complex to implement. What do you think about these pictures?

@gismo2006 sure =)

hi @bibi,
that should be no problem. I think it would be interesting to use NASA’s EPIC (Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera) API. There you would get two day old pictures of the globe. Here’s an example image:

You can also view the images here.

So if you would like to do that I can help you.

Displaying only an static image would not be very interesting for me.

greets Luke

Hey @gismo2006,
I think i can help you. As i started to develop MMM-DWD-WarnWeather, i used a little Pythonscript to explore the API. So if Python would be ok for you, just explain what Data should be written to your Text file and i can modify the Script for you.

So that’s how it looks now.