Provides a script for showing how much energy costs right now. This is done using the Enrgi West API. It returns the price for the current hour and stores it in a JSON object. Maybe changing it later to be a SQLite database.
Clone the repo into your i3blocks folder (typically ~/.config/i3blocks/ or ~/.config/i3blocks/scripts). Then add the block below into your config file:
[Energy]
markup=pango
command=~/.config/i3blocks/i3-energy-tracker/main.py now
background=#000000
interval=600
refresh your i3 bar (alt+shift+r)
Some todo items:
- Pick some better colors for the block (Maybe use RGBA?).
- Add configuration for selecting ranges.
- Add cli configuration for cutoffs (setting COLOR_MIN and COLOR_MAX via cli).
- Add a setting for selecting coloring based on percentage of highest and lowest price for the day.
- Add an on click event that shows a table of prices for the whole day.
- Write the pango element code.
- Get it to show with Rofi.
- Make the on click event + Rofi work.
- Add support for selecting more markets (eg. Denmark Eastern Market or custom variable ones.)
- Added in a comment thje east market price data.
- Add a check so that the JSON file is the correct market data if you switch.