suppertime.co.uk writes:

I want the weather forecast waiting for me on my little Raspberry Pi-powered internet printer in the morning. I tried signing up for the Printer Weather forecast app but it never worked – maybe it’s not running at the moment. I couldn’t work out how to install it myself, so I was a bit stuck.

Then I had an idea. I use IFTTT to email myself a weather forecast every morning. IFTTT stands for If This, Then That (or is it ‘If That, Then This’?). It glues together different web sites and services like Gmail, Flickr and Twitter in ways that can be incredibly useful. I had an idea to use the weather service on IFTTT combined with JD Harper’s really neat idea for using Dropbox text files as a way of printing to a GoFreeRange printer.

Read more about it here and check out another weather forecast RPi project here!

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