Show HN: Print the daily weather forecast on a thermal receipt printer

Thermal Receipt Weather Printer Prints a daily weather forecast on an ESC/POS thermal printer, such as the "Bisofice Mini BT thermal receipt printer". Dependencies | Setup | Usage | Cron Dependencies Python 3 Pillow : The Python imaging library. : The Python imaging library. ImageMagick: For converting SVG icons to a printable format. Setup Install dependencies: On Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install imagemagick python3-pil On other systems, install ImageMagick via your package manager and Pillow via pip: pip install Pillow Get the weather icons: Run the script with the --download-icons flag to download only the necessary icon files: ./printweather.py --download-icons Or git clone https://github.com/erikflowers/weather-icons Or download the zip. Usage Run the script, redirecting the output to your printer device (e.g., /dev/usb/lp0 or /dev/ttyUSB0 ). The script can be run from any directory by providing its full path: /path/to/print-weather/printweather.py > /dev/usb/lp0 Supplying Coordinates You can provide GPS coordinates and timezone via command-line arguments or environment variables. If none are provided, the script defaults to London, UK. The order of command-line arguments is: LATITUDE LONGITUDE TIMEZONE As command-line arguments: # Example for London ./printweather.py 51.5072 -0.1276 " Europe/London " > /dev/usb/lp0 As environment variables: LATITUDE=51.5072 LONGITUDE=-0.1276 TIMEZONE= " Europe/London " ./printweather.py > /dev/usb/lp0 Scheduling with Cron To run the script automatically at 5am every day in the system's timezone, edit the crontab with crontab -e and add the following line. Use environment variables to configure the location and timezone. 0 5 * * * LATITUDE=51.5072 LONGITUDE=-0.1276 TIMEZONE="Europe/London" /path/to/print-weather/printweather.py > /dev/usb/lp0