linecast 1.1.8

Terminal weather, solar arc, and tide visualizations

linecast

Terminal weather, solar arc, and tide visualizations. Pure Python, zero dependencies.

All data comes from free public APIs with no keys required.

Commands

weather — Current conditions, hourly braille temperature curve, 7-day forecast with color range bars, precipitation sparkline, natural language comparisons, and weather alerts for 35 countries.

sunshine — Solar arc inspired by the Apple Watch Solar Graph face. Shows the sun's position on its daily arc with sky color gradients, day length with daily delta, and moon phase.

tides — NOAA tide predictions rendered as an ocean-themed half-block chart with gradient fill, current water level, and high/low extremes.

All three support --live for a full-screen auto-refreshing display. sunshine and tides also support arrow-key time scrubbing.

Install

pip install linecast

Or with a Homebrew tap:

brew tap ashuttl/linecast
brew install linecast

Usage

weather                          # current location via IP geolocation
weather --location 44.54,-68.42  # specific coordinates
weather --search québec          # find coordinates by city name
weather --metric                 # metric units (°C, km/h, mm)
weather --celsius                # celsius only (wind/precip stay imperial)
weather --metric --fahrenheit    # °F with km/h and mm
weather --live                   # full-screen, auto-refresh
weather --lang fr                # interface en français
weather --lang de                # Oberfläche auf Deutsch
weather --lang is                # viðmót á íslensku
weather --lang ja                # 日本語インターフェース

sunshine                         # solar arc for today
sunshine --live                  # full-screen, scrubbable, auto-updating

tides                            # nearest NOAA station
tides --station 8413320          # specific station ID
tides --search "Bar Harbor"      # find stations by name
tides --live                     # full-screen, scrubbable, auto-updating

Language support

--lang (or LINECAST_LANG) switches the full UI — weather descriptions, day names, natural language comparisons, precipitation forecasts, and alert timing — into the chosen language. Non-English languages also use 24-hour time.

Supported: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, Danish, Finnish, Japanese

All commands are also available under the linecast namespace if the short names conflict with other tools on your system:

linecast weather --live
linecast sunshine
linecast tides --station 8413320

Weather alerts

Alerts are sourced automatically based on location from five providers covering 35 countries:

• US — National Weather Service
• Canada — Environment and Climate Change Canada
• Germany — Deutscher Wetterdienst (via BrightSky)
• Norway — MET Norway
• Ireland — Met Éireann
• Japan — Japan Meteorological Agency
• 30 European countries — MeteoAlarm (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK)

Alert text comes from each national weather service in its native language. Where available, alerts are served in your --lang preference.

Environment variables

Variable	Description
WEATHER_LOCATION	Default lat,lng for weather (e.g., 44.54,-68.42)
TIDE_STATION	Default NOAA station ID for tides (e.g., 8413320)
LINECAST_LANG	UI language: en, fr, es, de, it, pt, nl, pl, no, sv, is, da, fi, ja
WEATHER_UNITS	Set to metric for Celsius, km/h, and mm (same as --metric)
LINECAST_ICONS	Set to emoji to use standard emoji instead of Nerd Font icons
LINECAST_COLOR	Color mode: auto (default), truecolor, 256, 16, or none
NO_COLOR	Any non-empty value disables ANSI colors (standard convention)

Requirements

• Python 3.10+
• A terminal with ANSI color support (truecolor looks best; weather remains usable in low/no color)
• A Nerd Font for best icon rendering (optional — use --emoji for standard emoji fallback)
• macOS or Linux (uses termios for live mode)

License

MIT