Tempest Data on WearOS

Tempest Owners
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With there being no Tempest WearOS app, I figured I’d share a little back door way to get your Tempest Data on your WearOS watch. Disclaimer…it does require Home Assistant to do it…but for those of you who are running Home Assistant, it’s pretty straightforward.

In the Home Assistant companion app, make sure you have your WearOS device linked. Go into your phone in the WearOS app and add a “Template” tile to your watch. Once this is done, go into the Home Assistant companion app and go into your WearOS Settings. Select “Template Tile”. Here is where you will enter a template to pull your home assistant data into your watch. I suggest going into the Developer Tools in your HA instance and selecting “Template” to test it out to make sure what you have is working. One you have what you want, I copy/pasted it into a Google Keep note, and then pulled the Google Keep note up in my phone so that I could copy/paste that into the Template in the HA app, just to make it easier and avoid typos.

Once you have that…you can have a nice little dashboard on your Wear OS watch.

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Here is the template for the image above:

{{ "<h1><center>Tempest Data</center></h1>" }}
{{ "🌡️ <b>Temp</b> " + states("sensor.st_00113994_temperature") | round(1) | string }} 
{{ "💧 <b>Humidity</b> " + states("sensor.st_00113994_humidity") }}
{{ "🧭 <b>Barometer</b> " + states("sensor.st_00113994_air_pressure") | round(2)| string }}
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That is very cool! I use Home Assistant but unfortunately I am a Garmin user and there is not an integration for it but your project gives me incentive to figure it out somehow. Thanks!!!

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I think I may need more information on this process. I have a Google Watch 3 and a Pixel Fold 9 Pro phone. But I’m not sure if I have the Home Asst Companion App and when I searched for it, I get a number of “home control” apps - nothing with that name showed up. I have Google HOME. But no place to enter Template.

I found this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.homeassistant.companion.android

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Home Assistant is a smart home platform, similar concept to Google Home, but on steroids. Home Assistant is an open source community driven application that you install on an always on computer on your home network, usually on a Raspberry Pi or a cheap mini-pc. It runs as a server and allows you to integrate a wide array of devices and services, Tempest being one of those services. When Tempest detects a lightning strike, you can turn on one of your lights. Wear OS is another one of those services that integrates with Home Assistant. Here’s the demo site to see it in action.

The Companion App is the app you linked to which runs on your phone which allows your phone to integrate with Home Assistant and provides you an interface to it. The Companion App doesn’t actually run Home Assistant, it just connects your phone to it. You would need to have an instance of Home Assistant running in your home to use it.

With the Companion App it links your Wear OS to your phone to Home Assistant to Tempest so that all of those services can work together. In doing so, I can display any Tempest entity on my watch using a Template provided by the companion app.

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Hey,
For Garmin you can use Wunderground widgets which are available on ConnectIQ

I’m using one of this widget and is working as expected - except that the pws from weatherflow are publishing data once every 10min.

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Thanks I will check it out! I had not thought of that and it is greatly appreciated!

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Check this one:

You need to use the api key generated from wunderground website for your pws in order to link it to the widget

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Another Garmin user here, thanks for sharing!

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My favorite is this one - is not free but you can add multiple pws with some detailed dashboards or alerts

I’ve added a preview from my fenix 8

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Wish i could load but issues with adding API key. Keeps asking for it but have not been able to enter either in settings on watch , phone in IQ Connect or plugged into computer. Waiting to see if support has any ideas!

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Try to calibrate your altimeter by using gps mode.
Not sure if will work

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Just tried the WUnderground PWS & Alerts and worked first time. Thanks! Now all I have to do is get Weather Underground to look at the correct station. Always something to frustrate…

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Thanks. This works great! This got me to play around with template tiles.