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Weatherbox

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Description

weather for defined location or by ip-address (change weather location code using weather.codes/)

- shows suntrail
- shows wind direction/intensity
- 5 day forecast with rain probability
- hourly forecast with humidity and rain probability
- colorized temperature (from blue to red)
- using metric or imperial units (C, km/h or F, mph)
- shows 24 hours or 12 hours (AM/PM)
- choose language for weekdays (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Chinese)
- can detect location by ip-address (uses city, country code and region code in the US)
- touch friendly by changing most settings with left mouseclick

feel free to make boxes for various cities.

credits:

Flat Weather by HipHopium
  www.deviantart.com/hiphopium/a…

Win10 Weather Multilingual by Eclectic-Tech
  www.deviantart.com/eclectic-te…

SunRiseSet by 2ndIdentity
  www.deviantart.com/2ndidentity…

CONKY-COLORS by helmuthdu
  www.deviantart.com/helmuthdu/a…

changelog:

2023-07-26  version 2.1
  - configuring of the displayed location name (city or district) possible;
    (per custom skin action, right clicking the location name or editing the variables.inc file)
  - bumped required Rainmeter version to 4.4 Revision 3400;
    using the new DecodeCodePoints option in parsing the location names, as Unicode code point values
    are lately used for special characters like German Umlaute

2023-07-25  version 2.05
  - fixed displayed name -> showed district only if using short weather location code

2023-05-20  version 2.04
  - tweaks for long weather code (64 chars in weather.com url) support
  - imperial unit mode not working per language anymore, thus fixing in url
    @ big thx to Yincognito for pointing it out

2021-12-11  version 2.02
  - fixed JSON CurrentObservations section order change

2020-08-23  version 2.01
  - fixed a minor change to the JSON dailyforecast section

2020-08-02  version 2.0
  - fixed JSON v3 used by weather.com: all " are now masked to \"
  - moved variables to a seperate inc-file so settings are not overwritten in the future

2020-07-14  version 1.91
  - fixed auto location for german Umlaute (ä,ö,ü)
    for example: Düsseldorf, Gütersloh

2020-06-08  version 1.9
  - updated to the new JSON v3 format of weather.com

2020-04-29  version 1.86
  - fixed change by weather.codes, so the autolocation feature works again
    (now all cities are found correctly with the search function)

2020-02-22  version 1.85
  - changed weather icon for condition 'windy'
  - fixed weather icon 39 from scattered thunderstorms to afternoon showers

2020-02-11  version 1.84
  - changed auto location to one call to ipapi.co/
  - uses region code in the US for more precise results
  - added more country code translation rules

2020-02-06  version 1.83
  - fixed bug not showing the 12 hour pm time correctly

2020-02-05  version 1.82
  - fixed bug by not always showing the auto updated time and the forecast icons
  - icon for isolated thundershowers changed
  - made UpdateRate changeable per variable in minutes
  - delayed OnWakeAction for 5 seconds to ensure network interface is fully loaded

2020-02-03  version 1.8
  - visual tweaks at the location, search and error screen
  - adding a refresh button in the top right spot showing the state of the auto location feature
  - forecast mode is now permanent per setting
  - added 12 hour (AM/PM) mode
  - location, unit, time and forecast are now clickable to change the settings
  - added Spain, Great Britain, Russia and China to code translate rule

2020-01-28  version 1.62
  - showing todays forecast and if values expire using the tonight values and temperatureMaxSince7am
    instead
  - using degrees for wind direction mapping again, the compass coding could be in wrong order
  - changed html parsing completly to api.weather.com at the end of the file, so errors due to
    altering the website are less likely

2020-01-27  version 1.6
  - xml-api of weather.com (wxdata) is deprecated as of 01/15/2020, so changed to html output:
    now one request will be around 400 KB, formerly only 4 KB were used
  - fixed auto location feature (using weather.codes)
  - implemented hourly forecast, just left click on the forecast area
  - showing humidity at hourly forecast mode (yellow)
  - using temperatureMaxSince7am for todays forecast

2019-06-07  version 1.4
  - documentation added to ini-file
  - shadow for city added
  - forecast rainbow background added
  - initial retrieving weather shows weather location code
  - implemented auto location feature (showing initial search)

2019-06-01  version 1.21
  - fixed calc measure log errors
  - prepared for auto location feature

2019-05-31  version 1.2
  - updated to rainmeter 4.3
  - parsing and error visualisation
  - fixes for non metric mode
  - city wrapping with max 2 lines
  - added user context actions (unit, language, location)

2016-04-25  version 1.1
  - added rain probability

2016-04-14  version 1.0
  - changed from yahooweather to weather.com
  - implemented suntrail
  - initial version adapted from my conky skin
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Nice. I wish Rainmeter would add the ability to dynamically resize skinsd.