This project adds a new feature to the Wallpaper Engine: change wallpapers when it's sunny/rainy/snowy! This is done by a simple program which runs every hour to check current weather and sets corresponding playlist. Only supports Windows.
To install, download release.zip in the release page and simply run install.bat file. (warning: DO NOT run as administrator!) This will install files in C:\ProgramData\WallpaperEngineLiveWeather and create a Windows task scheduled to run the program every hour. To manually run the program, just execute WallpaperEngineLiveWeather.exe.
We will configure the program in 4 steps. First, open C:\ProgramData\WallpaperEngineLiveWeather\config.json file. This is the file where all configurations are written.
The most difficult step: for the program to run properly, you have to generate a weather API key from OpenWeatherMap.
Create an account in OpenWeatherMap, then go to API keys section. Generate an API key, and write down the API key to api_key field in the configuration.
Write down your country and city to the configuration. The name should appear if you search your city here. For example, if you are living in Seoul, you should set configuration as:
{
"city": "Seoul",
"country": "KR"
}
If Wallpaper Engine is installed in other than the default location, set wallpaper_engine_bin field to path of your Wallpaper Engine executable.
The program will set playlist by refering to playlist_prefix and weather_bindings field in the configuration. For example, in the configuration below:
{
"playlist_prefix": "weather_",
"weather_bindings": {
"Clear": "sunny",
"Atmosphere": "sunny",
"Clouds": "sunny",
"Drizzle": "sunny",
"Rain": "rainy",
"Thunderstorm": "rainy",
"Snow": "rainy",
"Mist": "rainy"
}
}The program would set the playlist weather_sunny if the weather is Clear, Atmosphere, Clouds, or Drizzle. It would set the playlist weather_rainy if the weather is Rain, Thunderstorm, Snow, or Mist.
Playlists must be set in order to work properly. In Wallpaper Engine, save your playlist with the names (such as weather_sunny) you have configured earlier.
Due to the limited control in the command line interface of Wallpaper Engine, when the program checks the weather, the playlist will always advance to the next wallpaper. In other words, every hour, the playlist will be forcefully changed to the next wallpaper, indepedent of Playlist Settings in Wallpaper Engine.
For advanced users, if you want to change the check interval, edit the trigger of WallpaperEngineLiveWeather task in the Windows Task Scheduler.