Put near-realtime picture of Earth as your desktop background
himawaripy is a Python 2 script that fetches near-realtime (10 minutes delayed) picture of Earth as its taken by Himawari 8 (ひまわり8号) and sets it as your desktop background.
Set a cronjob that runs in every 10 minutes to automatically get the near-realtime picture of Earth.
This is a fork of the original specifically for OS X
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/snakie/himawaripy.git
# install pillow
brew install homebrew/python/pillow
# configure
cd ~/himawaripy
vi himawaripy.py
# test whether it's working
./himawaripy.py
# set up a cronjob
crontab -e
# Add the line:
*/10 * * * * $HOME/himawaripy/himawaripy.py > /dev/null && $HOME/himawaripy/update_wallpaper.sh
Bora M. Alper - for the original Python 3 implementation: https://github.com/boramalper/himawaripy
Thanks to MichaelPote for the initial implementation using Powershell Script.
Thanks to Charlie Loyd for image processing logic (hi8-fetch.py).
Obviously, thanks to the Japan Meteorological Agency for opening these pictures to public.