Tiny GOES Dynamic Wallpaper

I’m using GOES images to be my wallpaper, such as macOS Mojave’s dynamic wallpaper.

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system (GOES), operated by the United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service division, supports weather forecasting, severe storm tracking, and meteorology research[1].

This script downloads one image every 10 minutes from GOES server, and applyes it as your wallpaper.

To install this script, avoid doing it with root. Install it using sudo.

Dependencies

wget
feh

Instalation

To install tgoeswall you can edit the Makefile to match your local setup (tgoeswall is installed into the /usr/local/bin by default).

Afterwards enter the following command to install tgoeswall (if necessary as root).

sudo make install

After the installation you can enable tgoeswall to run as a service by running the following command (as user not as root):

tgoeswallctrl start

Usage

After installation you can change some configurations of tgoeswall service by editing a file placed in /etc/tinytools/tgoeswall.conf.

The options available are:

path: path that the tgoeswall service will use to download the GOES image(preferably /tmp/).
resolution: resolution of the image to be downloaded, it can be 678, 1808, 5424 or 10848.
feh_args: args that will be used by feh. Check feh manpage to see the options available.

The default options can be seen as follows:

path:/tmp/tgoeswall/
resolution: 1808
feh_args: --bg-max

This script doesn’t persist images for too long because they can be huge files(greater than 72MB sometimes).

You can start|stop the service with systemctl:

$ systemctl --user start tgoeswall
$ systemctl --user stop tgoeswall

Also you can check the script log with journalctl:

$ journalctl --user -fu tgoeswall

You can use tgoeswall to download GOES images into your current folder by running the following command:

tgoeswall -r 1808

Where -r is the image resolution. You can always check the available commands by running:

tgoeswall -h

Team


Edimar Calebe Castanho (Calebe94)	Gabriel Gaboardi (Gabo)

License

All software is covered under GNU General Public License v3.0.