I just got it running on windows, needed to follow the kivy install instructions here:
https://kivy.org/doc/stable/installation/installation-windows.html
and also had to install numpy
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Good to hear! And thanks for letting me know about Numpy. Iād forgotten it would be missing on Windows initially.
Unfortunately the console wonāt look its best on Windows, and will be somewhat stretched in the vertical. If you like it, Iād recommend getting a Raspberry pi instead!
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No probs, it actually doesnāt look too stretched at all
Did run into another issue though, and just created a pull request to fix it.
Guessing no-one else in the Southern Hemisphere had tested it.
Yea just seen that - thanks! Itās a wayward line of PHP code that I forgot to delete when converting the routines to Python. Iāll accept the pull request and release it with the next version.
Glad everything else seems to be working though. I certainly never tested in the Southern Hemisphere, so do let me know if you come across anything else weird.
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Got it running on the Pi directly. Good stuff. Thanks for step by step instructions.
Couple of notes.
When performing all the steps in the instructions there are a couple of lines that have a tick mark at the end of the string. I was copying and pasting each step and those tripped me up for a few minutes. Not a big deal, just an FYI.
Example - also see Step 6
When running on the RPi was getting an exception when the Window.size was being set. Turns out that RPi only supports Full Screen (which did work). I found out that using Open GL allows for Kivy Windowed Mode.
Running on the RPi
Next up is to set things up on the little monitorā¦
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Now running on the RPi Touch screen.
Interesting had to switch back to native driver vs the Open GL one.
With the Open GL driver RPi would boot but screen goes blank, will have to research that one.
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Hello Peter
just installed your script and Iām also plaged with ghost devices (as tester I more then once killed a few things 
station ID 3531
KeyError: 'device_type'
When I go to the other hub I get another error message
station ID 3695
KeyError: 'countryCode'
Once you can push the fix out, let me know
thanks for all the work
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Love this app, already have a request from my boss to build one for his WF.
Thanks for your work on this one Peter.
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Sigh - living close to Seattle has advantages. Ordered a pi3+ before noon, delivered and booted before dinner. I think I met my Fitbit steps for the day going back+forth to the front door muttering āā¦is it here yetā¦ā
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That is fast. I will order another have it by Thursdayā¦LOL
@patrick.mussner and @eric Just released a new version with a workaround for orphaned devices. You should now be able to get your consoles up and running.
@vertigok Iāve incorporated you bug fix in Sager.py into the new release. Thanks very much!
@mao, thanks for spotting the issues in README.md. That should all be fixed now. Iāve also come across the same behaviour re. full screen and Window.size when running with the different OpenGL drivers on the Raspberry Pi. As the code is designed for the touchscreen and therefore needs the native driver rather than the Open GL one, Iāve added a small workaround to cope with the Window.size exception.
@eric, I canāt recreate the KeyError: 'countryCode' you get for station 3695. Can you download the update and let me know is this is still happening?
Thanks all!
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Living close to SparkFun is a double edged sword. The good is I can go get anything I need. The bad is I can go get anything I want.
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edit : got it to work. Made me a new account with geonames as the one I had (very old) seems to have problems (used the url from your code and filled in the details and it gave an error account level). Now it runs. Letās explore
thanks Peter
this is the full start log from terminal, whatever station I choose I still have that language problem.
could it be that the pi being set to french France is making a problem ??
Have used raps-config to set GB_us but still same
pi@WF_console:~/WeatherFlow $ python3 main.py
[INFO ] [Logger ] Record log in /home/pi/.kivy/logs/kivy_18-09-16_0.txt
[INFO ] [Kivy ] v1.11.0.dev0, git-038acbf, 20180915
[INFO ] [Python ] v3.5.3 (default, Jan 19 2017, 14:11:04)
[GCC 6.3.0 20170124]
[INFO ] [Factory ] 195 symbols loaded
[INFO ] [Image ] Providers: img_tex, img_dds, img_sdl2, img_pil, img_gif (img_ffpyplayer ignored)
[INFO ] [Window ] Provider: egl_rpi
[INFO ] [GL ] Using the āOpenGL ES 2ā graphics system
[INFO ] [GL ] Backend used
[INFO ] [GL ] OpenGL version <bāOpenGL ES 2.0ā>
[INFO ] [GL ] OpenGL vendor <bāBroadcomā>
[INFO ] [GL ] OpenGL renderer <bāVideoCore IV HWā>
[INFO ] [GL ] OpenGL parsed version: 2, 0
[INFO ] [GL ] Shading version <bāOpenGL ES GLSL ES 1.00ā>
[INFO ] [GL ] Texture max size <2048>
[INFO ] [GL ] Texture max units <8>
[INFO ] [Window ] virtual keyboard not allowed, single mode, not docked
[INFO ] [Text ] Provider: sdl2
2018-09-16 17:01:58+0200 [-] Log opened.
2018-09-16 17:02:00+0200 [-] Traceback (most recent call last):
2018-09-16 17:02:00+0200 [-] File āmain.pyā, line 1720, in
2018-09-16 17:02:00+0200 [-] WeatherFlowPyConsole().run()
2018-09-16 17:02:00+0200 [-] File āmain.pyā, line 219, in init
2018-09-16 17:02:00+0200 [-] self.System[āCountryā] = Data[ācountryCodeā]
2018-09-16 17:02:00+0200 [-] KeyError: ācountryCodeā
I think it is this part of your code but hell Iām no coder so the fix ???
# Determine country of Station
Template = 'http://api.geonames.org/countryCode?lat={}&lng={}&username={}&type=json'
URL = Template.format(self.System['Lat'],self.System['Lon'],self.System['GeoNamesKey'])
Data = requests.get(URL).json()
self.System['Country'] = Data['countryCode']
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Perfect! I thought something with Geonames may have been the issue. Happy exploring!
Once it is stable enough, I can translate to Dutch and French if you ever go local 
waiting for the full European version in CĀ° en km/h etc
Looks nice already as is
again thanks for the hard work
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Thanks for the feedback and updates.
After a little more then 24 hours I have a half frozen screen
all WF data is updating but the touch part is dead, I canāt open the forecast/sun-moon/ nor CC part anymore
Also the forecast top left in the circle is showing forecast unavailable when the other fields are populated
no reaction at all from the touch screen.
Any idea what could have crashed, canāt find trace in the logs (for as much I digged)
Any idea where to look for any log ???
seems the service for the touchscreen died somehow ā¦
Wonāt reboot for now as it may help if it stays in this state to debug.
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Hi @eric, āForecast unavailableā is an easy fix. I forgot to make an icon for āWindyā conditions so it just defaulted to āForecast Unavailableā. Iāll push a fix for that soon.
As for the frozen screen, that seems a little more complex and is not behavior I have observed. Can you SSH into your Pi? The logs should be in ~/.kivy/logs. If there is nothing interesting in there, I would use SSH to kill the console and see if you can use touch to interface with the base Raspbian GUI. If you canāt, my instinct would be that something deeper in the Pi than the console has gone haywire, especially given that the console is happily updating still. Perhaps reboot and see if the touch comes back? If it does I guess start the console again and see if the problem occurs again? Sorry I canāt be more helpful for this one!