Hi, I am disappointed with the data display that Tempest provides for my weather station (both website and app). The GitHub project Weatherflow-collector is hopelessly broken and no longer maintained. I am wondering if there are any open source docker containers that I can run to pull my Tempest weather station data, and display values and visualizations in some form. Ideally I’d like to be able to pull just the temperature from my station into a dashboard like homepage or homarr, but cannot find integrations. I don’t have the skills to pull this from the API myself.
I am running WeeWx to collect data from the Tempest and use the plugin Belchertown to complete my dashboard. WeeWx can use the UDP broadcast from the Tempest vs. making API calls to the API. Here is the Docker Version of WeeWx, don’t use it and I don’t know the best way of adding in plugins but you can take a look. I run WeeWx native in a LXC virtual machine.
If you want to see what Belchertown looks like here is his website:
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I’m looking for something too. I have spent too many hours trying to fix Weatherflow-Collector. Being the novice coder I am, it’s beyond me. I’ve tried the AIO, standalone Docker, LXC, everything I could think of. The Grafana dashboards gave me a leg up in my career. I’m still hoping to get it fixed one day.
WeatherFlow PiConsole WeatherFlow PiConsole is the next best AIO solution I’ve found and the last update was a couple months ago. I was using it before I found Weatherflow-Collector.
Yes anything that would pull in all the data into Grafana would be fine. That way individuals could make, tweak and share dashboards the way they like.
I’d have to dig into this further. My understanding is that the UDP broadcasts are direct from the hub/station, but the API data is QC’d. The Belchertown graphs are very cool. And you say this is managed by a plugin? Where is the database?
Edit: Nevermind, I read the About page about the set-up. I think it is a bit over my head.
Actually, the only real complicated part is the single config file but mostly it comes pre-configured to use the sqllite database and the web pages are pre-configured and has many options. I would say it took me about 2 hours to get the basic use running where I was recording the data from the Tempest into the database and using their default web pages.
As the days went on I published my sucess on the WeeWx site a a working install and then someone reached out and said you have to try Belchertown. Since this is a “plug-in” install, I spent a few days understanding how his site worked and was able to cobble together a working instance and just organically kept adding charts and other graph tabs. This option allowed me to publish my data to multiple weather sites also as a side benefit
Here is my site: https://weather.vargofamily.com
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Very nice. I will have to give it a try.