Weather && Stats
A KDE Plasma 6 panel/taskbar widget that displays live weather and system stats in a single compact bar. Designed to sit in your top or bottom panel — not a desktop widget.
Overview
- Weather — current conditions via Open-Meteo (no API key required)
- CPU Temp — reads directly from hwmon (Intel coretemp, AMD k10temp/zenpower, ARM cpu-thermal); turns red above your threshold
- CPU Usage — sampled from
/proc/stat - Memory Usage — percentage of RAM in use
- Network Speed — live download/upload on your most active interface
All stats update on configurable intervals. Each section can be toggled on or off.
Requirements
- KDE Plasma 6.0+
bash,free,/proc/stat,/proc/net/dev(standard on any Linux system)- A Nerd Font set as your panel font is optional — the widget falls back to plain Unicode symbols if disabled in settings
Installation
Manual
git clone https://github.com/samjage/weather-and-stats.git
kpackagetool6 --type Plasma/Applet --install weather-and-stats
Then right-click your panel → Add Widgets → search for Weather && Stats.
Placement: Plasma always adds new widgets at a default position. After adding, right-click your panel → Enter Edit Mode and drag the widget to your preferred spot (e.g. left of the system tray). Plasma has no API for widgets to declare a position automatically.
To update after changes
kpackagetool6 --type Plasma/Applet --upgrade weather-and-stats
Configuration
Right-click the widget → Configure Weather && Stats:
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Search by city name (geocoded via Open-Meteo) | Chicago, IL |
| Temperature unit | °F or °C | °F |
| Show condition text | Adds e.g. "Partly Cloudy" after the temp | Off |
| Weather refresh | How often to fetch weather (minutes) | 5 min |
| CPU temp unit | °F or °C | °C |
| CPU temp alert threshold | Temp at which the reading turns red | 80°C |
| Stats refresh | How often to poll system stats (seconds) | 3 sec |
| Visible stats | Toggle CPU temp, CPU usage, memory, network | All on |
| Use Nerd Font icons | Use Nerd Font glyphs; disable for plain Unicode fallback | On |
How it works
Weather is fetched with a plain XMLHttpRequest — no API key, no account needed. Open-Meteo is free for non-commercial use.
System stats come from a small shell script (contents/stats.sh) that the widget runs on a timer. It takes two /proc/stat samples 1 second apart to calculate CPU usage, and reads the same interface from /proc/net/dev for network throughput. No external dependencies.
License
GPL-2.0 — see LICENSE if added, or the metadata.json for the declaration.