https://github.com/sid220/weather-beacon

A weather beacon written in PHP you can run on your own server or at the website listed.
https://github.com/sid220/weather-beacon

openweathermap php weather-beacon weather-conditions

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A weather beacon written in PHP you can run on your own server or at the website listed.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/sid220/weather-beacon
• Owner: Sid220
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-12-15T16:06:33.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2022-03-29T21:48:48.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-11T16:50:59.307Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: openweathermap, php, weather-beacon, weather-conditions
• Language: PHP
• Homepage: https://www.vestal.ml/beacon/onlinebeacon.html
• Size: 43.9 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# Weather Beacon

## About

This weather beacon shows colors based on the current weather conditions for your location using openweathermap.org's weather API.

## Colours

* Red = Rain

* Orange = Snow

* Blue = Clear

* Purple = Clouds

* Green = Everything else

See [openweathermap's weather conditions page](https://openweathermap.org/weather-conditions) for all of the weather conditions.

## Notes

* The API Key has been hidden

* The location has been hidden

* Under MIT License

## Installation

Requirements:

* A Web Server

* PHP

* An Openweathermap API key (get one [here](https://home.openweathermap.org/users/sign_up))

### Step 1

Clone this repo using `git clone https://github.com/Sid220/weather-beacon.git` or if you have the github CLI `gh repo clone Sid220/weather-beacon`.

### Step 2

Next upload this to the server by moving the folder using a command simmilair to this:

`[sudo] mv ./weather-beacon/ [server directory (in apache the default is /var/www/html/)]`

### Step 3

Use a text editor to change:

* \ to your city

* \<2-DIGIT_COUNTRY_CODE> to your country code e.g. US

* \ to your latitude (you can use an online tool like [this](https://www.latlong.net/) to find it out)

* \ to your longitude (you can use an online tool like [this](https://www.latlong.net/) to find it out)

* \ to your API key

## Help, I'm a millenial who needs a pretty GUI and therefore can't use a CLI to solve my own problems

File an issue