#Get-Temperature.ps1 #create new object to hold values Write-Output $obj s:\\posh\\Get-Temperature.ps1 | out-gauge -style 4 -MainIndicator_Style Filler07 -value Temperature -type vertical -floating -tooltip {$_.Conditions} -tooltipenabled True -scales_0_max 120 -scales_0_min -20 -size 50,150 -refresh 0:30:0<\/font><\/p>\n Be sure to specify the complete path to the script file. As written, the temperature is updated every 30 minutes. If I hover my mouse over the gauge I’ll also get current conditions. Hover over the “mercury” and I’ll get the current temperature. <\/p>\n I had hoped to add the code as a function to my profile, but PowerGadgets doesn’t necessarily load the functions from your profile so the refresh didn’t work. They’re looking into this issue for a future release. I also could have created an actual gadget file with PowerGadget Creator.<\/p>\n [Note 3\/22\/2003]<\/p>\n I just edited the second block of code. I had posted code that won’t work. You’ll get a message about Condition not recognized as a cmdlet, etc. For the ToolTip I have to explicitly say, use the Conditions property from the current object, ie, the one in the pipeline.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I thought this was going to be a fast and furious example, but it took a whole lot longer than I expected. The good news is that I’ve done all the work for you. You’re most welcome.<\/p>\n I love weather and living in central New York we get all kinds. So I decided I needed a thermometer on my desktop. Using PowerGadget’s Out-Gauge cmdlet this is pretty easy to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-powershell"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
$url=”http:\/\/xml.weather.yahoo.com\/forecastrss?p=ZIPCODE”
$webClient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
[xml]$data=$webClient.DownloadString($Url) <\/font><\/p>\n
$obj = New-Object System.Object
Add-Member -inputobject $obj -membertype NoteProperty -Name Temperature -value $data.rss.channel.item.condition.temp
Add-Member -inputobject $obj -membertype NoteProperty -Name Conditions -value $data.rss.channel.item.condition.text <\/font><\/p>\n
<\/font><\/p>\n![\"thermometer.png\"](\"\/storage\/thermometer.png\")
<\/span>The script downloads an XML file with weather information. You need to substitute your zip code in the URL. I’ve “objectified” the function by defining some properties. There’s a lot more information in the XML file you can play with as well. I picked two properties that I wanted to use in my gauge. Because the configuration for the gauge is more than I care to type more than once, I put this code in a separate script so all I have to do is run it:<\/p>\n