Ubuntu debian package deployment of a Menubar indicator for the Netatmo Weather Station

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mihaigalos/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install netatmo-indicator
netatmo-indicator &

sudo apt remove --purge netatmo-indicator

The indicator stores its settings in ~/.netatmo-indicator-preferences.yaml, with an additional credentials file for netatmo. The credentials' file is referenced with the <credentials_file> tag in ~/.netatmo-indicator-preferences.yaml

One may edit the credentials directly in the Menu.

If desired, one may edit the ~/.netatmo-indicator-preferences.yaml and add a dictionary of aliases to substitute the names displayed. Make sure to close the indicator before you manually edit the file.

Example:

aliases:
  Living: In
  Outdoor: Out
  Bedroom: Bed

When the indicator first starts, the user is presented with the settings menu. One needs to fill in his netatmo username, password, cilentId and clientSecret. All this information can be gathered from the user's netatmo profile.

This is a self note. You do not need this for normal indicator usage.

gpg --list-secret-keys

gpg --gen-key
gpg -a --output ~/.gnupg/mihaigalos.gpg --export 'Mihai Galos'
gpg --import ~/.gnupg/mihaigalos.gpg

dpkg-buildpackage -b -pgpg [email protected]

Launchpad (i.e.) only accepts source builds, and to avoid errors, we need an original version of the package see askubuntu for further info.

The current folder contains i.e. .git which we do not want to deploy. We thus make a new folder foo and create the package there.

(in the git folder)
current_directory=$(basename "$PWD")

mkdir -p ../foo/${current_directory} && find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -exec cp {*indicator,*.py,*.desktop,*.md} ../foo/${current_directory} \; && cp -r debian ../foo/${current_directory}
cd ../foo
tar -czvf ${current_directory}_0.1.orig.tar.gz ${current_directory}
cd ${current_directory}

dpkg-buildpackage -S -pgpg [email protected]

• Ubuntu One account active
• gpg key used to sign the debian uploaded to Ubuntu Keyserver:

• gpg --list-keys
• gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371 --send-keys <KEY>)

• OpenPGP keys displays the key

dput ppa:mihaigalos/ppa *source.changes