Topless

Do you drive a Jeep CJ or Wrangler? Have you ever been caught in a deluge with the top down? Yeah, we really didn't need to ask that question. It is a Jeep thing. We understand. With this handy device, you will be able to get a quick visual of the weather before you ever leave your house in the morning.

Each super-bright LED represents a 3 hour window. A green LED means that there is no rain predicted for that time period. A blue LED means showers are on the way. An orange LED means it might be a bit too sweltering to drive topless. And a white LED -- you guessed it -- means that it is going to be freezing cold (or snow is on the way).

Cold blooded? Don't mind the dry heat? You can set the temperature thresholds to set your personal preferences in the config.json file.

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Hardware Requirements

• Raspberry Pi Zero W
• GPIO Male Headers
• Blinkt! LED

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Software Requirements

Configure your Pi

• Follow the installation guide to download and install the latest build of Raspbian Stretch Lite.
• Run sudo raspi-config and complete the following tasks:
  • Expand file system
  • Setup locale
  • Setup timezone
  • Setup keyboard
  • Set GPU memory to 16MB to allocate most memory to CPU
  • Set up WiFi using this configuration guide
• Run sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list** and uncomment the reference to the source repo
• Run sudo apt-get update
• Run sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
• OPTIONAL: If using macOS, run the following to allow easy copying of files to your Raspberry Pi: sudo apt-get install netatalk

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Installing the prerequisites

• Install Python and XML libraries
  • Run sudo apt-get install python3 ipython3 python3-pip python3-rpi.gpio python-dev git
• Install a few necessary Python packages:
  • Run sudo pip3 install requests simplejson --force
• Setup Blinkt! LED
  • Run git clone http://github.com/pimoroni/blinkt
  • Run cd blinkt/library
  • Run sudo python3 setup.py install
  • Run cd ~

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Go topless!

• Sign up for a free API key at https://home.openweathermap.org/users/sign_up
• Run git clone https://github.com/eat-sleep-code/topless
• Run sudo nano topless/config.json
• Add your API key and change any other applicable settings
• Run python topless/topless.py --location [ZIP Code] for example: python topless/topless.py --location 90210
  • Alternatively, you can let the program use geolocation to detect your location: python topless/topless.py

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Autorun

Want to go topless every time you boot your Raspberry Pi? Here is how!

• Run sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/topless.service** and enter the following lines:

[Unit]
Description=Topless service

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /home/pi/topless/topless.py --location 90210
Restart=always
StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog
SyslogIdentifier=Topless
User=pi

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

• Run sudo systemctl enable topless.service
• Run sudo systemctl start topless.service
• Run sudo reboot

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