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Self-hosted weather app? (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by perishthethought@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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It occurred to me today that I am hosting more and more services locally, but I still rely on a 3rd party weather app on my PC and phone. Generally, they suck as a class of applications - so much surveillance.

I searched around and found a couple Reddit threads from years ago, before Apple killed off the DarkSky API. But I think there are still free APIs, yes?

Are there any good FOSS current weather and forecasting self hosting options now? Thanks!

I'm in the US if that matters.

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[-] markstos@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Are you planning to run your own weather station to collect the wind speed, air pressure, precipitation, temperature and so forth?

At least historically, supercomputers were used for weather forecasting, as it’s rather complex to calculate. I’m not it would be worth it to apply all that computing power to privately generate local weather forecasts.

[-] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Every weather "service" in the US uses the publicly available NWS data and applies it's own spin to it. There's no reason you can't do this. Personal weather stations are also not expensive and almost-universally offer API support.

[-] thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Any recommendations? I'd love to run a weather station at my house (especially if there was an AQI sensor that was semi remotely accurate). I remember we had one of these in middle school and one of us would record the data from the computer into a sheet of paper every day 😂😂

[-] vettnerk@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Yr.no has an API that is free. https://developer.yr.no/

[-] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Home Assistant comes with a weather app that you can use for scripting.

[-] bhez@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I got myself free API access to openweathermap.org and added it to Home Assistant. You can create some nice dashboard items from the data from it.

[-] plague_sapiens@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Why not use sth that is based on OpenWeather? Weather from FDroid comes to my mind. For Windows idk. You can find some Gnome Extensions for Gnome (Linux DE) which can use OpenWeather too.

[-] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pirateweather is free, but I’m not sure if there are pre-built apps for that that’s self hosted.

[-] perishthethought@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

That looks really promising. Thanks!

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