MeteoSchweiz

This program fetches forecast data from meteoschweiz.admin.ch, generates a pdf using TikZ, and displays the result.

Dependencies

• wget (for downloading the svg icons)
• inkscape (for converting the svg icons to pdf)
• pdflatex (for rendering the image, requires tikz, pgfplot, xcolor and graphicx per default)
• zathura (or any other program to display pdf files)

Usage

After the first start, meteoschweiz will setup the config directory, create the documented sample configuration file and both templates. Then, it downloads all necessary icons from meteoschweiz.admin.ch and converts them to pdf.

All rendered images and the parsed data is cached in the cache folder for quicker access. If a new forecast is available online, then it is fetched and rendered again.

Templates

There are two different templates. You can modify them to your liking. If the template does not exists, the default template will be created again. So if you have messed up the template, just rename or delete it, and the default template will be restored. The template is written in LaTeX, and annotated with tera.