1739868 - Add a weather widget to Calendar tab

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Calendar :: Calendar Frontend, enhancement)

Description

[Yogesh]

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Expected results:

For people using Thunderbird as a daily driver, a useful feature would be to display current weather in the calendar section and today pane. Knowing and preparing for weather is one of the fundamental organizational tasks for everyone - in addition to seeing emails, tasks and events.

Add a configurable weather section or widget to

1. Calendar pane - below the calendar date selection widget on the top and above the calendar selection section (my first preference)
2. Today pane
   2.a Calendar tab - push the tasks section down and carve out space in the top to show current weather and forecasts
   2.b Email tab - push the events section down and carve out space in the top to show today's weather and forecasts
3. Spaces bar - quick view of only current weather and no forecasts (?) in collapsed mode and both current weather and forecasts in expanded mode

Where the weather widget is displayed and how it looks and whether or not it is displayed should all be configurable.

As a default, OpenWeatherMap can be used with a configuration option to provide a custom API key. The custom API key could be stored along with email passwords in the secrets manager (optionally protected by master key)

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Could be something for an add-on.
There are not AFAIK any open and free sources for that data, and making users input some key...

Comment 2

[Yogesh]

(In reply to Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] from comment #1)

Could be something for an add-on.

Calendar is not very add-on friendly. It is going to have to be a separate tab with a web page displaying weather from some site. I very much prefer some widget integrated with the calendar than a simple web page.

There are not AFAIK any open and free sources for that data, and making users input some key...

There is OpenWeatherMap that provides a good API that can be used to fetch weather. It's very popular and gratis for users. Users simply need to get themselves an API key and input it. I think this is a good feature and that the ticket should be open to allow more discussions.

Please reconsider.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Like I said, if the user has to go an register to a service and enter a key... it's not of general usage.

Anyway, I found you can put the weather into the calendar simply by subscribing to an ics feeed - https://weather.vejnoe.dk/