plasma-ion-meteireann

Standalone KDE Plasma weather provider for Met Éireann, the Irish Meteorological Service.

It adds a Met Éireann data source to the Plasma weather widget through the plasma/weather_ions plugin system.

Runtime requirements

• Plasma 6 weather widget
• kdeplasma-addons
• Qt 6
• KDE Frameworks 6

The plugin uses the weather runtime libraries shipped by kdeplasma-addons:

• libplasmaweatherion.so
• libplasmaweatherdata.so

Install with yay

git clone https://github.com/alysson-souza/plasma-ion-meteireann.git
cd plasma-ion-meteireann
yay -Bi .

After installation, restart plasmashell or log out and back in before adding the provider.

Build manually

Build requirements

• CMake >= 3.16
• Extra CMake Modules (ECM) >= 6.22
• Qt 6 >= 6.10
• KDE Frameworks 6 >= 6.22

Arch / CachyOS build dependencies

sudo pacman -S --needed cmake extra-cmake-modules qt6-base qt6-declarative \
  kcoreaddons ki18n kio kunitconversion kdeplasma-addons

Build

cmake -B build -S .
cmake --build build

Install system-wide

sudo cmake --install build

After installation, restart plasmashell or log out and back in before adding the provider.

Install for one user

cmake --install build --prefix ~/.local

If Plasma does not automatically discover a user-local install, make sure your session includes:

QT_PLUGIN_PATH=$HOME/.local/lib/qt6/plugins

and restart plasmashell.

Using it

1. Open the Plasma weather widget configuration
2. Type your location into the search field
3. Select the result labeled with (Met Éireann)
4. Click Apply or OK

Location search is currently handled through Met Éireann website lookup endpoints.

Forecast data source

Forecast data comes from Met Éireann's official Open Data weather forecast API:

• http://openaccess.pf.api.met.ie/metno-wdb2ts/locationforecast

Met Éireann attribution

This project redisplays Met Éireann data. For redistribution, review:

• NOTICE.met-eireann.txt
• Met Éireann Open Data

License

This repository is mixed-license:

• local project files are GPL-2.0-or-later
• vendored include/ion.h is LGPL-2.0-or-later
• vendored weather data headers in include/ are GPL-2.0-or-later

See:

• LICENSES/LGPL-2.0-or-later.txt
• LICENSES/GPL-2.0-or-later.txt