I built an app a couple years ago for monitoring the real-time data from an inexpensive android (or fire) tablet. People still use it and don’t hate it. It’s free, collects nothing, just join the same wifi as your tempest hub and it should “just work”… some settings available for different format, red font (for nighttime), etc. I attempted to edit the wiki but I guess I don’t have permission. Here is the link to google play store:
[Tempest Weather Console - Apps on Google Play]
(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bryanparke.tempestweather&hl=en-US)
[Tempest Weather Console - App on Amazon Appstore]
(Tempest Weather Console - App on Amazon Appstore)
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I just tried it on my phone and of course its meant for a tablet. Nice graphics. I like that its just simple and easy to look at. Nice job on this and thanks for sharing it. Good on ya!
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(I just took the liberty of breaking this out into its own third-party app thread.)
I installed it on my ancient v5 Amazon Fire 7 tablet from Google Play, and love the simplicity for reading it from across the room and optional red font for night use!
Note that it only does landscape screen orientation, and the settings page is in portrait mode. I do not know if it has a screen keep-awake function built in, or if you need to use a third-party one if you run this 24/7 on a wall-mounted tablet.
Also worth mentioning is that it uses the UDP broadcast API, so it doesn’t need a web API token to access the cloud system. Just make sure that your tablet and Tempest Hub are on the same local network, as UDP broadcasts do not traverse IP subnets.
This will probably not be a problem for 99% of the users, but I don’t know if/how it handles multiple Hubs or Tempest devices (or if it knows what the old Air/Sky devices are) since I did my testing on an isolated network with a single Hub/Tempest and not on my big network with multiple Hubs and The Land of Misfit Toys.
Nice job, Bryan!!!
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Appreciate you taking a look. It stays awake on its own. I just leave it running 24/7, one is on the dresser in the bedroom with the red font, the other sits under the TV with the white font. Been running for a couple years. As far as multiple hubs it’s going to report what it “hears” on that UDP 50222 broadcast. It’s listening for obs_st, evt_strike, rapid_wind and evt_precip - so if many hubs are on the same subnet it’ll be handling each, but it would throw off any accumulation data; rain and wind I accumulate a bit to try and give and ideas of how much rain in 24hr based on the 1 min reporting interval and keep track of wind to grab a max as the “gust” - those would be off for sure. But anyhow, it has worked well for me for years and gave a purpose to my old Android tablets. Hope people can enjoy it. Thanks again for taking a look. Best regards.
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