pos-weather-printer

Given the coordinates of a geographical location this script fetches the current weather forecast from the Dark Sky API and prints it using via the ESC/POS protocol onto thermal paper. It has been developed in a coding session by Jessie and Fränz in January 2020. We are using the Climacons icon set to show weather conditions.

Prerequisites

• Epson TM-T88IV ESC/POS printer
• Raspberry Pi (connected to the printer via USB)
• Python & Pip

Setup

• Create a Dark Sky account to retrieve an API key.
• Configure constants at the top of main.py.
• Install Python dependencies: pip install requests python-escpos