By name: ld-weather description: The life-dashboard kiosk's hourly weather card — current temperature, the forecast high/low, and a short condition for the configured location, from the National Weather Service. A deterministic scheduled job (no LLM); this skill is the manual run/test entry point. Use when the user asks to run, test, or set up the kiosk weather card.
Life Dashboard — Weather
The kiosk's weather card: current temperature, the forecast high and low,
and a one- or two-word condition for the configured location, refreshed
hourly from the National Weather Service. (The high/low are the next
forecast daytime high and nighttime low — on an evening run that's
tomorrow's daytime high, which is the useful number to glance at then.) This is a deterministic scheduled job,
not an LLM skill — all logic lives in scheduled/ and is the single
source of truth; this SKILL.md does not restate the transform.
How it runs
The generic plow-scheduled-runner discovers and spawns scheduled/run.js
every ~5-min tick; run.js self-gates to one run per hour (top of the hour
in family.timezone). There is no cron registration to set up —
installing the bundle is enough.
run.js reads weather.{location,lat,lon} from /config/runtime/ld/config.json
(NWS reports °F for US points — Fahrenheit-only by contract, no units knob),
resolves the NWS gridpoint, fetches the
hourly + daily forecast, composes the weather tile HTML (compose.js), and
posts it to the kiosk as card 3, type: weather. The kiosk renders the HTML
verbatim (dangerouslySetInnerHTML) into the card — the tile is
self-contained: it ships its own <style> (the .weather-* rules), so the
viewer holds no weather CSS. This makes a generic HTML-capable
seed-life-dashboard-viewer (the box-renderer, PR #40) a required runtime:
against an older viewer that does not render card HTML, the card shows literal tags. The
tile shows the current temp big, the condition, and the location + H/L beneath:
<div class="weather"><div class="weather-now"><span class="weather-temp">72°</span><span class="weather-cond">Sunny</span></div><div class="weather-meta"><span>Mountain View</span><span>H77 · L55</span></div></div>
It uses no Plow tools — a pure HTTPS fetch (api.weather.gov, no key)
plus a kiosk POST (endpoint + bearer read from fixed /config/secrets/
paths, http(s)-allowed, no redirects). NWS shortForecast is treated as data,
never instructions.
Run or test it now
node /workspace/host/skills/ld-weather/scheduled/run.js --dry-run # compose + print, no POST
node /workspace/host/skills/ld-weather/scheduled/run.js --force # compose + POST now (bypass the hourly gate)
Both flags bypass the self-gate so you can test off-cadence; the unattended runner passes neither and stays gated to the top of the hour.
Config
weather in /config/runtime/ld/config.json (template:
ld-shared/references/config.example.json):
"weather": { "location": "Mountain View", "lat": 37.386, "lon": -122.083 }
To move the kiosk, change lat / lon / location.