Date, Local weather, and Remote IP ping display (With AppleScript display control)

Posted in Collections by jalvani 1303 days ago

tl;dr! I use GT and AppleScript to only display some work-related stuff when I'm at work. You can watch a video and check out the AppleScript I use here, on my website!

Weather

Uses two scripts: Weather Icon Curl, and Weather Icon Display. The "Weather Icon Curl" script curls a page from yahoo weather (I'm in Baltimore, but you just have to replace one URL in the script with the appropriate URL for your area to make it work) I use this URL

http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/maryland/baltimore-2358820/

then the script will download the page, parse it for the icon used, and download that. The "Weather Icon Display" script then displays the previously curl'd icon.

Weather Icon Curl

curl -o /tmp/weather.html http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/maryland/baltimore-2358820/;
curl -o /tmp/currenttemp.png  `grep "div class="forecast-icon" style="background:url" /tmp/weather.html | awk -F"'" '{ printf $2 }'`

Weather Icon Display

Displays /tmp/currenttemp.png

Remote Office Ping

Uses a total of 6 scripts. One to display all of the office locations, and one script for each location's pings response time. This is a bit more complex. I used one script ("Remote Office Labels") to display each remote office location. Then I used a separate script for each location's ping ("Remote Office Ping"). It pings a router in each office 10 times ever 5 minutes, averages the pings, and displays the average. The tricky part is that I only display this script when I'm on my work network.

Remote Office Labels

echo "Toronto:rDenver:rLos Angeles:rAmsterdam:rHong Kong:"

Remote Office Ping

HOST=*Remote IP* ping -q -c 10 $HOST | grep "round-trip" |sed 's/// /g' | awk '{print $8}' | awk '{printf("%dn",$1 + 0.5);}'

Screenshots

Geeklet files to download

Comments

timdwyer 1064 days ago

Got the weather icon to work except now it doesn't refresh. I set it up last night and this morning it is still showing the moon icon.

Any thoughts how to fix this?

Thanks!

Mykneegrows 817 days ago

Try changing the refresh time

Russ77 940 days ago

I added a "myDay.glet" file to the collections under "Show short version of day of week" to replace the Day.glet file above, which didn't seem to work from this page's link.

Also, here is a link to replace the outdated author's link at the top of this webpage:

**@Timdwyer** Re: icon not changing. All backslashes \ must be double-backslashed \\ in comment edit pane to even show up in comments. ( I had to use 4 backslashes in a row to get 2 in a row to be visible. ) If you copy and pasted what the author has at the top of this page, instead of downloading the "Weather icon curl.glet" , then it wouldn't work.

Or...Maybe either your weather icon is linked to another zip code showing that weather or you didn't set a refresh time to update that icon's window.

Here is what is should have looked like at the top of the page with the required backslashes showing:

Weather Icon Curl:

curl -o /tmp/weather.html http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/maryland/baltimore-2358820/; curl -o /tmp/currenttemp.png `grep "div\ class=\"forecast-icon\"\ style=\"background:url" /tmp/weather.html | awk -F"'" '{ printf $2 }'`

You can copy and paste what I show and then replace the first url, if you don't live in Baltimore or download the "Weather icon curl.glet" above and change the url inside GeekTool preferences.

For those who hadn't noticed, clicking on the ellipsis "…" after the command text box within preferences pops up an edit window for the command. Just be sure you have the window selected that you want to edit.

Russ77 938 days ago

Sadly, another tip.

This is not meant to be a flame, but constructive criticism. This website is trying to do the community a service. I thank them.

However, the code authors and readers, in most cases, aren't aware that some of the code displayed is being mangled by this website's design. In the code display, less than signs or left angle brackets can't be used at all on this website and backslashes have to be double-backslashed to even show up as a single backslash. The designers of this website are 'apparently unaware' that they should be using some sort of 'tag' mechanism to display 'literal' 'code' 'examples' 'preformatted' so as to show us the unabridged code in the comments or elsewhere the author may want to place it on the website's webpages. I said the website designer are 'apparently unaware' because there is no prominent warning on each webpage about how inaccurate the displayed code may be.

So despite what I mentioned about copying and pasteing for accuracy, don't do it on this website, until the designers fix this webpage flaw. You can't be sure you are getting all the code unless you compare it to what is in the downloaded geeklet. You are better off just using the supplied geeklets that you can download, adapt, and implement.

jalvani 807 days ago

@Russ77 Thanks for providing the link. I forgot to update this page. Fixed.

durgadas 881 days ago

Day.glet link is broken, leading to 404 error.

jalvani 807 days ago

Tested it, and it seems to be fixed.

olivierdeen 658 days ago

Nice Works great!!

philrei 556 days ago

interesting

shchaofan 401 days ago

mark,thanks~!

mawi12345 90 days ago

you coud simply use:

ping -q -c 10 $HOST | tail -1 | cut -d "/" -f 5

for your remote office ping script.