The vendored EC bitmaps looked good but dither into a visible speckle
once quantized to the panel's 6-color palette (their colors are
anti-aliased/arbitrary RGB, essentially never an exact palette match).
Hand-drawn icons filled with the frame's actual ink colors quantize with
zero dithering error to diffuse -- confirmed by running both through the
real quantize pass: the bitmap version speckles, the hand-drawn one is
pixel-identical before and after.
Redrawn to look more like EC's style this time around: pointed
triangular sun rays (the earlier attempt's thin-line rays read as a
crosshair, not a sun) and dendrite snowflakes (tick marks near each tip,
not a bare asterisk), plus the same cloud/raindrop/lightning-bolt shapes
as before. Removed the vendored server/app/weather_icons/ directory
entirely -- no longer used, and removes the icon-image licensing
question along with it.
The hand-drawn glyphs (draw_cloud/draw_sun/draw_raindrop/draw_snowflake/
draw_lightning_bolt) are replaced by 7 vendored bitmaps, one per shared
weather category, sourced from weather.gc.ca's public icon set -- these
are small, flat-shaded images that dither cleanly onto the panel's
6-color palette and read as recognizable weather icons in a way the
hand-drawn attempt (a plain circle-with-ticks "sun") didn't. Used for
every provider's rendering (Open-Meteo, NWS, EC), not just when EC is
selected.
Vendored (not fetched live at render time), matching this project's
existing convention for the Noto Emoji fonts -- server/app/weather_icons/
SOURCE.md documents the source, attribution, and the licensing caveat
(this is a personal, non-commercial project; the icon images' own
copyright terms are less clearly permissive than the weather data's own
End-use Licence, since they're served from the public website rather
than ECCC's data servers).
draw_weather_icon's signature changes from (draw, cx, cy, r, category,
palette_rgb) to (img, cx, cy, r, category): pasting a bitmap needs the
Image object, not just an ImageDraw handle, and palette_rgb is no longer
needed since the shared _quantize step already maps whatever's on the
composited canvas to the frame's actual palette -- no per-icon color
resolution required anymore.
New widget type with four display modes -- current conditions, an
hourly forecast strip, a multi-day forecast, and several cities' current
day side by side -- backed by a pluggable provider registry (app/weather/,
mirroring the app/widgets/ dispatch pattern): Open-Meteo (worldwide) and
NWS (US-only) both wired up now, Environment Canada documented as the
next one to add given its more involved station/grid-lookup API.
The calendar widget's existing embedded weather strip is untouched and
still Open-Meteo-only; this lifts the same underlying icon-drawing
primitives (now shared via app/weather_render.py, calendar_render.py
still imports draw_weather_row unchanged) into a widget that can be
placed and sized on its own. Icons are redrawn in the panel's actual ink
colors (yellow sun/bolt, blue rain/snow) instead of flat black, and
build_multi_city's icon/font sizing now scales with how many cities need
to fit rather than the box's height alone -- both fixed after catching
them via live browser verification, along with a mode-switch cache-shape
crash and a mobile-width dialog overflow.
New WeatherWidgetConfig table (migration 24), grid footprint, widget
module, common.py fetch/cache helper, router endpoints (location set/
clear, city add/remove, preview), dialog template + JS, and full test
coverage (providers, widget render, HTTP endpoints, migration replay).
docs/widgets.md and CLAUDE.md's TODO updated accordingly.
tfaour