Temperature Converter

Easy commands to convert temperatures

Commandline application to convert temperature from different sources (commandline, file, url and MQTT) to kelvin and fahrenheit with three types of output formats.

Installation

Windows, Linux & OSX:

Open powershell
Execute the following command:

gem install temperature_converter_Bert_Gereels

Execute program using temp_conv --help

Usage example

This program uses optionparsers to select in- and output formats.

Input formats:

Convert temperature inputted from commandline (-c or --command).

 temp_conv -c 69 -o text
 temp_conv --command 69 --output text

Convert temperature read form a textfile (-f or --file).

 temp_conv -f 'file_name.txt' -o json
 temp_conv --file 'file_name.txt' --output json

Convert temperature read from a url (-u or --url).

 temp_conv -u 'url_name' -o text
 temp_conv --url 'url_name' --output text

Convert temperature read from a MQTT server (-m or --mqtt).

 temp_conv -m -o html
 temp_conv --mqtt --output html

NOTE: MQTT settings are hardcoded!

Output formats:

Printing regular text (-o or --output text).

 temp_conv --file 'file_name.txt' -o text

Printing in JSON format (-o or --output json).

 temp_conv -u 'url_name' --output json

Printing in HTML format (-o or --output html).

 temp_conv -c 1337 -o html

NOTE: the in- and output arguments can be entered as a single character or fully, they can be used interchangeably

Release History

1.0.5
- Minor readme file changes
1.0.4
- Minor readme file changes
1.0.3
- Final changes to optionparsers
- Update to readme file
1.0.2
- Changes to optionparsers
1.0.1
- Added extra functionality to optionparsers
- Update to readme
1.0.0
- The first proper release
- Made a gem.
0.0.6
- Added optionparses for input and output.
0.0.5
- Added MQTT functionality.
0.0.4
- More single responsibility.
0.0.3
- Single responsibility and static methods.
0.0.2
- Making it DRY.
0.0.1
- Work in progress.