Kortexa Weather - a simple Porch demo ability

[francip]

What does this Ability do?

Kortexa Weather is a simple weather ability that also demonstrates how to render UI through Porch app.

Suggested Trigger Words

• what's the weather

Type

• New community Ability
• Improvement to existing Ability
• Bug fix
• Documentation update

External APIs

• No external APIs
• Uses external API(s): OpenMeteo, Porch through LocalLink

Testing

• Tested in OpenHome Live Editor
• All exit paths tested (said "stop", "exit", etc.)
• Error scenarios tested (API down, bad input, etc.)

Checklist

• Files are in community/my-ability-name/
• main.py follows SDK pattern (extends MatchingCapability, has register_capability + call)
• README.md included with description, suggested triggers, and setup
• resume_normal_flow() called on every exit path
• No print() — using editor_logging_handler
• No hardcoded API keys — using placeholders
• No blocked imports (redis, user_config)
• No asyncio.sleep() or asyncio.create_task() — using session_tasks
• Error handling on all external calls
• Tested in OpenHome Live Editor

Anything else?

Screen.Recording.2026-03-28.at.01.57.15.mov

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🔀 Branch Merge Check

PR direction: kortexa/porch → dev

✅ Passed — kortexa/porch → dev is a valid merge direction

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✅ Community PR Path Check — Passed

All changed files are inside the community/ folder. Looks good!

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✅ Ability Validation Passed

📋 Validating: community/kortexa-weather
  ✅ All checks passed!

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🔍 Lint Results

🔧 Auto-formatted

Some files were automatically cleaned and formatted with autoflake + autopep8 and committed.

• ✅ Unused imports removed (autoflake)
• ✅ Unused variables removed (autoflake)
• ✅ PEP8 formatting applied (autopep8)

✅ __init__.py — Empty as expected

Files linted: community/kortexa-weather/main.py

✅ Flake8 — Passed

✅ All checks passed!