Air pollution has become a major issue in China, damaging thousands of people's health every single day. While government and related industrial enterprises is taking actions on pollution control, you also should pay attention to the air quality periodically in your living place to decide whether to enable the protective measures like air purifier.
There are many ways we can get AQI in our life, it sounds better we have a yet another way to get AQI when the screen saver turns on.
- Display AQI on your screen saver
- Update AQI from aqicn.org periodically
- Push notifications when AQI exceed the specified threshold level
- Get local AQI based on IP address (thank @feix)
This script is designed for macOS, cannot be run in other platform.
There are no external dependencies.
Tested on macOS 10.12.
First of all, apply for a API token from this site.
$ git clone https://github.com/aheadlead/aqi-on-screensaver
$ cd aqi-on-screensaver
$ ./aqi-on-screensaver.sh installInstallation script will create a service on your launchd daemon. Script aqi-on-screensaver.sh will be called by launchd periodically to fetch AQI from aqicn.org, therefore you should keep this script here so that launchd can find it.
If you want to remove this script, simply run following lines in terminal.
$ ./aqi-on-screensaver.sh uninstall- The AQI value will not be updated on screen, when the screen saver appear, though this script did fetch the AQI value in background.
Wei Yulan yulan.wyl@gmail.com