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Working (and easy) weather icon in maps

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5

Hi all,

I found a lot of threads about placing a weather icon in maps (or create a sensor to monitor it) but nothing worked well for me so I did one by myself.

Admin Note:
Requires an secondary web-server capable of processing php scripts.

1. Create a page called weather.php and copy/paste this:

<?
$request = 'http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q='. $_GET["location"] .'&lang=en';
    $response  = file_get_contents($request);
    $jsonobj  = json_decode($response);
?>
<div style="border: 1px solid black; width: 85px; text-align: center;">
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px"><?echo $jsonobj->{'weather'}[0]->{'description'}?></p>
<img src="http://openweathermap.org/img/w/<?echo $jsonobj->{'weather'}[0]->{'icon'}?>.png">
</div>

Save weather.php on your web server.

2. Add in your map a custom HTML object and copy this code in the html-after:

<iframe src="http://yourwebserver/weather.php?location=London,uk" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0"></iframe>

I hope that this could help you :)

custom-html maps php prtg weather

Created on Aug 25, 2015 10:24:42 AM

Last change on Aug 25, 2015 1:59:39 PM by Luciano Lingnau [Paessler]



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If someone's getting an error with the file_get_content you could use this code: $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q='. $_GET["location"] .'&lang=it&units=metric&APPID=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'); curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true); curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HEADER, false); $response = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch);

instead of this one: $request = 'http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q='. $_GET["location"] .'&lang=en'; $response = file_get_contents($request);

You've to replace the XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX string with the appid that you receive once you register a username in the openweather site .

Created on Oct 9, 2015 12:30:30 PM



2 Replies

Votes:

1

Greetings AndreaM,
we appreciate your contribution. Thank you.

Best Regards,

Created on Aug 25, 2015 1:57:23 PM by Luciano Lingnau [Paessler]



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Votes:

6

If someone's getting an error with the file_get_content you could use this code: $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q='. $_GET["location"] .'&lang=it&units=metric&APPID=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'); curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true); curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HEADER, false); $response = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch);

instead of this one: $request = 'http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q='. $_GET["location"] .'&lang=en'; $response = file_get_contents($request);

You've to replace the XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX string with the appid that you receive once you register a username in the openweather site .

Created on Oct 9, 2015 12:30:30 PM




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