OpenWeatherMap simple Weather info

This flow will use the OpenWeathermap to query a city you set in the Openweathermap node and display it on the Awtrix screen.

Specifications
System	Node-RED
Firmware	AWTRIX 3
Topic	Smarthome
Built by	myounges
File	XRKWORY8orP4.json · 6.1 KB
Icons	13
Published	2 Sep 2025 · updated 2 Sep 2025
Downloads	7

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Was looking for something simple. this queries the API every 90 minutes and stores the info then has another timer that queries the stored values to send them to the screen. These values can be changed. The icons I fetched from LaMetric to be as close as possible to the forecast.

XRKWORY8orP4.json

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    {
        "id": "e37dfa7528f985bd",
        "type": "openweathermap",
        "z": "9da611451ddbe3d3",
        "name": "Weather",
        "wtype": "current",
        "lon": "",
        "lat": "",
        "city": "",
        "country": "",
        "language": "en",
        "x": 200,
        "y": 3120,
        "wires": [
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            ]
        ]
    },
    {
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        "type": "inject",
        "z": "9da611451ddbe3d3",
        "name": "inject",
        "props": [
            {
                "p": "topic",
                "vt": "str"
            }
        ],
        "repeat": "5400",
        "crontab": "",
        "once": false,
        "onceDelay": 0.1,
        "topic": "",
        "x": 69,
        "y": 3120,
        "wires": [
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            ]
        ]
    },
    {
        "id": "9112bc3237e043af",
        "type": "mqtt out",
        "z": "9da611451ddbe3d3",
        "name": "awtrix",
        "topic": "awtrix/notify",
        "qos": "2",
        "retain": "false",
        "respTopic": "",
        "contentType": "",
        "userProps": "",
        "correl": "",
        "expiry": "",
        "broker": "",
        "x": 670,
        "y": 3120,
        "wires": []
    },
    {
        "id": "ab731a831755c8cb",
        "type": "function",
        "z": "9da611451ddbe3d3",
        "name": "awtrix",
        "func": "switch (msg.payload.icon) {\n    case '01d':\n        // Action for value1\n        msg.payload.icon = 2282;\n        break;\n\n    case '02d':\n        // Action for value2\n        msg.payload.icon = 2286;\n        break;\n\n    case '03d':\n        // Action for value3\n        msg.payload.icon = 44321;\n        break;\n        \n    case '04d':\n        // Action for value1\n        msg.payload.icon = 44326;\n        break;\n\n    case '09d':\n        // Action for value2\n        msg.payload.icon = 72;\n        break;\n\n    case '10d':\n        // Action for value3\n        msg.payload.icon = 2284;\n        break;\n\n    case '11d':\n        // Action for value1\n        msg.payload.icon = 11428;\n        break;\n\n    case '13d':\n        // Action for value2\n        msg.payload.icon = 4702;\n        break;\n\n    case '50d':\n        // Action for value2\n        msg.payload.icon = 17055;\n        break;\n\n    case '01n':\n        // Action for value1\n        msg.payload.icon = 18433;\n        break;\n\n    case '02n':\n        // Action for value2\n        msg.payload.icon = 54631;\n        break;\n\n    case '03n':\n        // Action for value3\n        msg.payload.icon = 63124;\n        break;\n    case '04n':\n        // Action for value1\n        msg.payload.icon = 44331;\n        break;\n\n    case '09n':\n        // Action for value2\n        msg.payload.icon = 72;\n        break;\n\n    case '10n':\n        // Action for value3\n        msg.payload.icon = 63079;\n        break;\n    case '11n':\n        // Action for value1\n        msg.payload.icon = 11428;\n        break;\n\n    case '13n':\n        // Action for value1\n        msg.payload.icon = 4702;\n        break;\n\n    case '50n':\n        // Action for value2\n        msg.payload.icon = 17055;\n        break;\n}\n\nmsg.icon = msg.payload.icon;\nmsg.temp = msg.payload.tempc;\n\nmsg.payload = { \n    \"name\": \"weather\",\n    \"force\": false,\n    \"icon\": msg.icon,\n    \"moveIcon\": false,\n    \"repeat\": 1,\n    \"soundfile\": 1,\n    \"color\": [\n        0,\n        106,\n        255\n    ],\n    \"text\": msg.temp + \" C\"\n}\nreturn msg;",
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        "timeout": 0,
        "noerr": 0,
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        "finalize": "",
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        "y": 3120,
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        "name": "repeat locally",
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            {
                "p": "topic",
                "vt": "str"
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        ],
        "repeat": "60",
        "crontab": "",
        "once": false,
        "onceDelay": 0.1,
        "topic": "",
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        "y": 3160,
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    },
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        "id": "291a463fbaac37ce",
        "type": "change",
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        "name": "",
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            {
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                "p": "icon",
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                "tot": "msg"
            },
            {
                "t": "set",
                "p": "tempc",
                "pt": "global",
                "to": "payload.tempc",
                "tot": "msg"
            }
        ],
        "action": "",
        "property": "",
        "from": "",
        "to": "",
        "reg": false,
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            },
            {
                "t": "set",
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                "pt": "msg",
                "to": "tempc",
                "tot": "global"
            }
        ],
        "action": "",
        "property": "",
        "from": "",
        "to": "",
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    },
    {
        "id": "671286ff8c767144",
        "type": "global-config",
        "env": [],
        "modules": {
            "node-red-node-openweathermap": "1.0.1"
        }
    }
]

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