Halo - The Weather App

Halo is a weather app written in python. You can quickly view the weather in your city and checkout the forecast and historic temperature trends. Halo is smart enough to identify your location based on your ip.

Prerequisites

1. Python 3
2. Pip

Installation

Snap

The easiest way to install halo is via snap.

To install the latest stable version,

user@ubuntu:~$ sudo snap install halo-weather

To install the latest build,

user@ubuntu:~$ sudo snap install --edge halo-weather

Pypi

Make sure the following binaries are present:

user@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt install python3-setuptools pkg-config libcairo2-dev libgirepository1.0-dev gir1.2-gtk-3.0 python3-dev

To install the package package using pip,

user@ubuntu:~$ pip3 install halo-weather

Usage

After installing it, you can directly launch it either by searching for Halo among your installed apps, or from terminal by running

$ halo-weather

Running directly from Source

You can directly run this from source. First, you will need to clone the source code and install the dependencies manually by running

$ git clone https://github.com/cijo7/Halo.git && cd Halo
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Then run the python module by executing

$ python3 -m halo