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I was unhappy with stock weather app, because it refreshes infrequently (three hours old "current" temperature? Seriously?). So I quickly put together my own. 

It's a "push" Indicator App, and the push data is provided by Google Apps Script set to run every 15 min. Those scripts are hosted by Google (for free). The script retrieves data from The Dark Sky Forecast API (https://developer.forecast.io/). It's free up to 1000 request per day, but you have to register and get API key you need to put into the script:

  

function getDarkSkyWeather() {
  var result = UrlFetchApp.fetch("https://api.forecast.io/forecast/<PUT YOUR FORECAST API KEY HERE>/35.00,-120.00?units=si&exclude=flags,hourly,daily,alerts");
  //Logger.log(result);
  var json = JSON.parse(result);
  //Logger.log(json.currently);
  return json;
}

function convertDarkSkyToLaMetric(darkSkyJson) {
  var temp = darkSkyJson.currently.temperature;
  var icon = darkSkyJson.currently.icon;
  var minutelySummary = darkSkyJson.minutely.summary;
  var minutelyIcon = darkSkyJson.minutely.icon;
  
  return {
    "frames": [
        {
            "index": 0,
            "text": Math.round(temp) + "°",
            "icon": pickIcon(icon)
        },
        {
            "index": 1,
            "text": minutelySummary,
            "icon": pickIcon(minutelyIcon)
        },
    ]
  }
}

function pickIcon(icon) {   // clear-day, clear-night, rain, snow, sleet, wind, fog, cloudy, partly-cloudy-day, or partly-cloudy-night
  switch (icon) {
      case "clear-day": return "a2282";
      case "cloudy": return "a2283";
      case "rain": return "a2284";
      case "sleet": return "a160";
      case "partly-cloudy-day": return "a2286";
      case "snow": return "a2289";
      case "clear-night": return "i2314";
      case "wind": return "a2440";
      case "fog": return "i2158";
      case "partly-cloudy-night": return "i2152";
      default: return "i73";
  }
}
      
function executePost() {
  var payload = convertDarkSkyToLaMetric(getDarkSkyWeather());
  var options = {
        "method" : "post",
        "payload" : JSON.stringify(payload),
        "contentType": "application/json",
        "headers" : {
            "X-Access-Token" : "<PUT YOUR LAMETRIC ACCESS TOKEN HERE>"
        }
  };
  var result = UrlFetchApp.fetch("https://developer.lametric.com/api/V1/dev/widget/update/com.lametric.<PUT YOUR APP ID HERE>/1", options);
  Logger.log(result);
}       

  

I agree with Fex 100%. Our weather can change in 20 minutes from sunny to stormy and the temperature can drop 20° in that same amount of time. The data needs to be checked every 30 minutes to hour and I think a different source than worldweatheronline might need to be used. The national weather service office has JSON data as one of the options but I'm not sure if it covers outside of the US.

Now, if only I could figure two things, it would be perfect:

1. It sorta looks like device (and the app store) stuck with V1, while I have V2 published already. How do I force it to update to V2?

2. Is it possible to use same icons as stock weather app? They are much nicer than ones I found in the gallery...