I was late to the party but I got in as backer #9.
Gary
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from the kickstarter page:
For sharing your Tempest data weāll send you an annual dividend check. Just install it, take some photos and keep the data coming. In 2020 and 2021 weāll send at least $15 per year. *Future year dividend depends on WeatherFlow revenues.
interestingā¦ do the current air/sky unit also apply?
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If you guys look at the specs between our current system and the Tempest, theyāre exactly the same with one important exception. Rain. The stated error has gone from 20% to 10%. Thatās very nice to see!
It also looks like theyāll reach their goal before the end of the day. Wow!
Wow! I am watching the page and backers just keep coming.
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Itās pretty exciting. Just make sure to use this link: got.wf/ks_forum . (When our customers use that link, WeatherFlow gets to keep a higher % of the proceeds.)
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I signed up too, donāt really need another one, but I want to support this company. The product concept is very interesting.
Can you tell us more about the dividend program? (search on āGet a Data Dividendā towards the bottom of the page.) Is this only for future new Tempest installs? Does the program include first gen. stations?
Boy, some of you got the good deal. I signed up and my offer was join the Beta Test for $198 and I pay WeatherFlow a dividend of $21 a quarter.
It reminded me of the letter I got from Ed McMahon. Not only did I not win a million dollars, He said I was such a loser I had to pay him for the postage and printing of the letter.
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Just backed the super early bird 
Andy
Me too.
Ooh noo, you donāt ship to Italy 
Iāve asked a couple of times but I guess the lack of response is answer enoughā¦ at one point the original WeatherFlow was promised to have HomeKit support, and then it was later said that the next hardware revision would have the necessary hardware to support HomeKit. Additionally, as I understand it Apple no longer requires the specialized hardware to support HomeKit in the first place. Will Tempest support HomeKit, as the Netatmo folks now do? Additionally, will the app be updated to support Shortcuts?
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Supporting a third party application is a huge burden. If WeatherFlow supports Appleās appliance then that opens the burden to support the others.
WeatherFlow offers a complete API that anyone can use. It will be easy for Apple or any other developer to use the API and support the Smart Weather Station.
Question with the remote setup for the tempest system. Can that be a extra purchase down the road? Iām eager to test this station out first from wifi and then the remote location with my 60 acres of open land.
I think that seems a bit backwards to how it works; it shouldnāt be incumbent upon Apple to support WeatherFlow any more than it should be upon Amazon to support it with Alexa or Google to support it with Assistant or IFTTT to support it with their platform. As far as I can tell the āhuge burdenā has already been opened; surely the WeatherFlow folks have already worked with those parties to support their platforms natively? Iām simply hoping that theyāll support the third major smart home platform. It seems to be a common thing for the WeatherFlow folks to push off improvements they could make to visualizing data in their own app to third party developers that have no real onus to support it.
Amazon and Google have great support for developers. Apple does not. Any developer could write a skill for Amazon and Google. It very open and fully supported. Are there any Apple developers that are building skills for homekit?
Not Apple, but plenty. of. third. party. developers. including very relevant ones. Again, itās not really Appleās place to integrate with every obscure hardware platform under the sun, itās the responsibility of the hardware developers to integrate with the framework that Apple has set up a certification program to do. Unless youāre talking about software developers only, but that hardly seems like a fair comparison since WeatherFlow is a hardware device, and one that originally promised HomeKit compatibility on their Kickstarter, and then promised it again (kinda). I know there was a time where one of the WF folks posted in here that the next hardware revision of the hub would include the necessary hardware to support HomeKit, because all of the popular smart home platforms were important to them, canāt seem to find it now.
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Sheesh - go to a meeting at $work rather than sign up immediately and the darn thing is waaaaaay over the kickstarter goal already. Wow.
So where are our units ? Itās been two hours man. Cāmon lets get going !!!
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WeatherFlow may get to it someday if you are willing to wait.
Congrats WF team , It is great to see the campaign up and running- I love the idea of the remote system - for a country like Australia that is a total winner, our underwhelming network coverage in remote areas precludes the use of the standard hub/ internet system but we do have reasonable cellular coverage. I will be hopefully in the first batch of āa la carteā systems as I can see no need for a second HUB as the existing one is excellent and love the idea of having the repurposed AIR as an indoor sensor. The more point data we can feed into analysis/prediction systems the better it is for all concerned. Great work !!
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Hi @kpardue . The current and Tempest HUB versions will support Apple Siri (eg. āHey Siri, what are the WeatherFlow conditions at my house?ā). Neither are currently specād to handle Apple Homekit processing requirements. We are still working on a relationship with Apple that would fast-track a version of the HUB that is Homekit compatible in 2020 pending negotiations.
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