background-weather.sh

A bash script that changes the desktop background to adjust to time and season.

• ToDo
• Installation
• Usage
• Customizing
• Credits

ToDo

• Detect climate conditions, to match the weather.
• Get wallpapers for all seasons.
• Use timezone to add make night or day longer.
• Detect environment type, (only tested in raspbian).
• Make default SVG files (started)

Installation

Ideally you just clone this repo and make a link to your bin directory.

git clone https://git.patxipierce.com/pxi/background-weather.git
ln -s ./background-weather/background-weather.sh /home/$USER/bin/

Then setup a cron job:

crontab -e

And add the following to update every hour:

0 * * * * /home/$USER/bin/background-weather.sh

Usage

Since the addition of parameters such as -w you can input the weather to influence the outcome of the wallpaper.

-f File

Override the file, but still apply season, weather, etc.

• Default: null
• E.g background-weather.sh -f mybackground.png

-w Weather

Checks for the named weather directory inside the wallpapers folder.

• Default: clear
• E.g background-weather.sh -w snowing

-l Latitude & Longitude

Unimplemented. This will affect the daylight hours expressed in the backgrounds.

• Default: 0
• E.g background-weather.sh -l 15.23456,-30.67890

--test Test mode

Returns the path to the existing file. Useful for implementing the script for other distros.

• Default: false
• E.g. background-weather.sh --test

Customizing

The wallpapers all go in the wallpaper directory, so a valid path culd be:

./wallpapers/$season/$weather/$file

For example:

./wallpapers/winter/snowing/03-Late-Morning.png

Or:

./wallpapers/winter/03-Late-Morning.png

Or the default:

./wallpapers/03-Late-Morning.png

The available scripted paths are:

• Season
  • spring
  • fall
  • summer
  • winter
• Weather condition
  • clear (default)
• Filename (which can be):
  • 01-Early-Morning.png
  • 02-Mid-Morning.png
  • 03-Late-Morning.png
  • 04-Early-Afternoon.png
  • 05-Mid-Afternoon.png
  • 06-Late-Afternoon.png
  • 07-Early-Evening.png
  • 08-Mid-Evening.png
  • 09-Late-Evening.png
  • 10-Early-Night.png
  • 11-Mid-Night.png
  • 12-Late-Night.png

Credits

Default wallpapers are from 8-bit Day.