Advanced Weather Companion GNOME Shell Extension

Overview

Advanced Weather is a feature-rich GNOME Shell extension that provides detailed and customizable weather information right on your desktop. With support for multiple locations, advanced forecasting, and beautiful visualizations, this extension transforms how you interact with weather data.

Features

• 🌦️ Real-time weather updates
• 📍Auto-location detection
• 🌡️ Detailed temperature and feels-like information
• 💨 Wind speed and direction
• 💧 Humidity and precipitation forecasts
• 🌈 Dynamic weather icons
• 🌐 Multiple weather data providers
• 🎨 Customizable appearance and units

Installation

From GNOME Extensions Website

1. Visit GNOME Extensions
2. Search for "Advanced Weather Companion"
3. Toggle the switch to install

Manual installation

Install from source

• Download archive file from the releases tab
• Open a terminal in the directory containing the downloaded file
• Install and enable the extension by executing gnome-extensions install extension.zip --force in the terminal

To setup your manual location by giving your location coordinates in the settings in the extension or in the Location settings in the main menu of the extension , you can get you location coordinates from the google map by going to your location and right clink on in it and coping the location coordinates from it by clicking them

Screenshots

Weather Widget in home screen

Main Interface

Hourly Forecast Interface

Daily Forecast Interface

Weather Insight Interface

Features

• Real-time weather updates with current conditions
• Hourly and daily forecasts
• Smart weather insights with temperature trends and probability of precipitation
• Automatic location detection with an option to input coordinates manually
• Support for Celsius and Fahrenheit
• UI with animated elements for smoothness.

Weather Data Display

• Current weather: Temperature, conditions, wind speed

Location settings

Refresh button Interface

Configuration

Weather Widget configuration in settings

Right-click the weather widget to access:

• Location settings
• Unit preferences (Celsius/Fahrenheit)
• Update interval
• Weather provider selection

Requirements

• GNOME Shell 45+
• Internet connection

Troubleshooting

Common Issues

• No weather data displayed
  • Click the refresh button 🔄
  • Check your internet connection
  • Restart GNOME Shell (Alt+F2, then type 'r')

Contributing

Reporting Issues

• Check existing issues
• Provide detailed description
• Include GNOME Shell version
• Attach screenshots if possible

Development

1. Fork repository
2. Create feature branch
3. Commit changes
4. Push and create Pull Request

Uses

This extension is using ipapi.co and open-meteo.com services

License

MIT License - See LICENSE for details

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