Every fifteen minutes or so, I have my desktop wallpaper changing to a fresh satellite image of Earth. Sometimes it shows Africa and Europe from the Meteosat satellite. Sometimes it shifts to the Pacific and Australasia, seen from Japan’s Himawari-9. Both are near real-time images from geostationary satellites orbiting above the equator. Here is how to cook it up on Debian 13 (Trixie) with KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland. Ingrediants Debian 13 (Trixie) with KDE Plasma 6, running a Wayland session Himawaripy: a Python tool that downloads the latest image from Japan’s Himawari-9 weather satellite, centred over the Pacific. It saves a timestamped PNG to a local folder. The project is no longer maintained but continues to work just fine. I installed it via pipx rather than apt because it is not packaged in Debian, and requires setuptools to be manually injected as a dependency after installation. A custom shell script to download the latest natural colour image from EUMETSAT’s Meteosat satellite,…
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