clocket

by tirtharajsinha

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A desklet that displays the time, date, currently and forecast weather report

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clocket@tirtha

Clocket is a desklet built for the Cinnamon DE (based on GNOME 3). It displays time, date, and current weather data.

I built this desklet because I just wanted a desklet of my own taste.

Other desklets are great, but I wanted a desklet having a clock and weather viewer combined.

Installation

Installation from desklet manager (Recommended)

Right-click on your desktop
Select add desklet
Go to "Download" tab and search clocket
Go to "Manage" tab and add the desklet to the desktop

Manually installation

Download the desklet from here
Extract the archive
Copy the clocket@tirtha folder into your ~/.local/share/cinnamon/desklets folder
You can now add the desklet in the desklet manager.

Setup weather service

By default, the location is determined based on the IP address and the weather data is loaded from Open-Meteo.

Open Weather

The weather service can be changed to Open Weather. An API key is required for this.

Latitude and longitude format

The string for a latitude and longitude can be generated, for example, at gps-coordinates.net.

Two string formats are supported. Separated by a comma or a colon:

40.741895,-73.989308
40.741895:-73.989308

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20 Comments

Rico-1 week ago

I've almost completely rewritten the desklet and released version 3.0.0. Features that were previously broken now work. There are also many new customization options.

remixedcat-8 months ago

not even updating location from kolkata

nox_vitae-1 year ago

Everything works - but no imperial units?

Jean-Noël Colin-2 years ago

Nice desklet, but I believe that the forecast url should be changed (line 259) to use this.id() instead of 'q=katwa' ;-)

willdoit67-2 years ago

correct me if i'm wrong, but do i have to pay for access to wheather info? very funny......

ilenia-03-2 years ago

Will there be an update where the option to switch between Metric System and Imperial System is added? Thank you in advance.

sparks79-3 years ago

This Looks Amazing and from what I can see, it Shows Everything I need to know about my location. Just One Question , How can I Add Seconds to the Time Display.

pcolamar-3 years ago

Found it I changed this._time.set_text(this.clock.get_clock_for_format("%0H:%0M")); Thanks anyhow

pcolamar-3 years ago

Hi, Can I set the clock to show in 24h format ? Thanks

Towfiq Ahmed-4 years ago

bro i'm new to this desklet thing. i was trying to change the background color of this desklet but i can't change the enforced theme background color from the desklet. any suggestion how to remove the theme color from the desklet.

Towfiq Ahmed-4 years ago

fj-vega-4 years ago

I'm getting the following error: "unreachable!! unknown error occured." I think it happens when you add a negative longitude in the format "latitude--longitude". Most likely the two dashes are breaking it.

Andreas Vasilios Chatzopoulos-4 years ago

Doesn't work. Says invalid API key even though I added a legit key. Incredible bad UX to force the user to fiddle with APIs.. It should just work automatically with chosen location.

Bishop Gregory Godsey-4 years ago

Doesn't work in the US. Says unreachable.

Texcaliber-4 years ago

I get that error when I add 'lat-lon' in the weather section. It kinda works without it although I get temperature in Celsius rather than Fahrenheit and current temperature is also off by a lot (It says 22.2, 33 is actual temp). Comparing to 'weather@mockturtl' applet which works fine.

Tirtharaj Sinha-4 years ago

hi, texcalibar ! sorry for the dissatisfaction, I will take care about the lat-lon and unit, but let me clear data is provided by openweathermap.org , there is nothing I can do about it .

Tirtharaj Sinha-4 years ago

hi, Bishop Gregory Godsey ! I'm sorry you did not enjoy this desklet but make sure you are putting correct api key and the api key is from openweathermap.org. Hope it will help you.

one-man-coder-4 years ago

this is beautiful man

Tirtharaj Sinha-4 years ago

thank you for your feedback, enjoy .

dkrulewich1-1 year ago

I was looking for something like this desklet. It has a lot of nice features. For me (located in USA), the BBC source works except that it is only displaying repeatedly the current temperature instead of several days forecast. And I'm sure you already know, but only Celsius is available for units. I had a "partially working" display of weather using openweather and an old API. On a whim I deleted the old API, and sadly the new one doesn't work at all. Anyway, I appreciate your efforts creating this nice app.