Pi Weather Station

This is a weather station designed to be used with a Raspberry Pi on the official 7" 800x480 touchscreen.

The weather station will require you to have API keys from Mapbox and ClimaCell (v4). Optionally, you can use an API key from LocationIQ to preform reverse geocoding.

Weather maps are provided by the RainViewer API, which generously does not require an API key.

Sunrise and Sunset times are provided by Sunrise-Sunset, which generously does not require an API key.

See it in action here.

Be mindful of the plan limits for your API keys and understand the terms of each provider, as scrolling around the map and selecting different locations will incur API calls for every location. Additionally, the weather station will periodically make additional api calls to get weather updates throughout the day.

v2.0.0

1-22-2021: Now uses ClimaCell API v4. For ClimaCell API v3 keys, use Pi Weather Station v1.

Setup

You will need to have Node.js installed.

To install, clone the repo and run

$ npm install

Start the server with

$ npm start

Now set point your browser to http://localhost:8080 and put it in full screen mode (F11 in Chromium).

Access from another machine

It's possible to access the app from another machine, but beware that by doing so you'll be exposing the app to your entire network, and someone else could potentially access the app and retreive your API keys from the settings page. By default the app is only accessible to localhost, but if you would like to open it up to your network (at your own risk!), open /server/index.js and remove "localhost" from the line that contains:

app.listen(PORT, "localhost", async () => {

so that it becomes:

app.listen(PORT, async () => {

The server will now serve the app across your network.

Settings

• Your API keys are saved locally (in plain text) to settings.json.
• The server will attempt to get your default location, but if it cannot or you wish to choose a different default location, enter the latitude and longitude under Custom Latitude and Custom Longitude in settings, which can be accessed by tapping the gear button in the lower right hand corner.
• To hide the mouse cursor when using a touch screen, set Hide Mouse to On.

Do you want to Host this Application in Docker?

Pi Weather Station is available as a Docker Image for AMD64 and ARM infrastructures. see the ReadME here for more: https://github.com/SeanRiggs/pi-weather-station/blob/master/Docker%20Image/Docker-ReadMe.md

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2020 Eric Lewin

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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