So been experimenting with some of the options for ansiweather, partly as schools need to teach data logging as part of the national curriculum computing, however not all schools have the kit required.

As I have this running on a Raspberry Pi, I thought it may be possible to set one up to log just the location and temperature.

ansiweather -l paignton -p false -h false  -w false -i false >temponly.txt

so the above will display the location and temperature, but exclude pressure, humidity, wind and UV index.

now=$(date +"%m_%d_%Y")
echo "Filename : /nas/backup_$weather.csv"
echo $(date "+ %D, %T"), $(ansiweather -l Paignton -a false) >> weather_$now.csv

Control what is sent to stdout.

now=$(date +"%m_%d_%Y")
echo "Filename : /nas/backup_$weather.csv"
echo $(date "+ %D, %T"), $(ansiweather -l torquay -p false -h false  -w false -i false) >> torquay_$now.csv

Final script

now=$(date +"%m_%d_%Y")
echo "Filename : /nas/backup_$weather.csv"
echo $(date "+ %D, %T"), $(ansiweather -l torquay -p false -h false  -w false -i false) >> torquay_$now.csv

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I have modified the script that runs every 10 minutes to record the output from the ansiweather utility, This still saves the output to a file but adds the current date to the file name.

now=$(date +"%m_%d_%Y")
echo "Filename : /nas/backup_$weather.csv"
echo $(date "+ %D, %T"), $(ansiweather -l Paignton -a false) >> weather_$now.csv

So the output looks like

 Humidity: 71% - Pressure: 1023 hPa
06/09/25, 14:20:01, Weather in Paignton: 18 °C - UVI: 7.03 - Wind: 1.79 m/s WSW - Humidity: 69% - Pressure: 1024 hPa
06/09/25, 14:30:01, Weather in Paignton: 18 °C - UVI: 7.03 - Wind: 2.24 m/s SW - Humidity: 70% - Pressure: 1023 hPa
06/09/25, 14:40:01, Weather in Paignton: 18 °C - UVI: 7.03 - Wind: 3.13 m/s W - Humidity: 69% - Pressure: 1023 hPa
06/09/25, 14:50:01, Weather in Paignton: 18 °C - UVI: 7.03 - Wind: 1.79 m/s SW - Humidity: 69% - Pressure: 1023 hPa
06/09/25, 15:00:01, Weather in Paignton: 18 °C - UVI: 7.03 - Wind: 1.79 m/s WSW - Humidity: 71% - Pressure: 1023 hPa
06/09/25, 15:10:01, Weather in Paignton: 18 °C - UVI: 7.03 - Wind: 1.34 m/s SSW - Humidity: 71% - Pressure: 1024 hPa

As this runs on a headless pi4, I can login and copy the data files locally before uploading to my gopherspace (Look it up)

gopher://vern.cc/1/~zleap

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