Ah okay, just making sure I wasn’t missing something! I’ll try again in a bit.
Tried again today and it seems to be working now!
I have a Pi hooked up to a 21" monitor and my wife seems to think this is “too much” 
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Great! Glad it is now working, and of course it can never be too much!
Awaiting the post of somebody hooking it up to a 80" HDTV…
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Any idea if this display would be ok, or should I stick with the standard 7 inch? thx!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09XDK2FRR/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A36L9W2P32TR7B&psc=1
No reason I can see why it wouldn’t work, although don’t take this as any guarantee!
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My wife purchased the tempest for me for my birthday. The one thing I was looking for was nowhere to be found in the box… a display. I love what you have done with the PiConsole and have no hesitation in building and configuring one (I have a background in Ai/ML and C/Assembly coding and have built a number of things on Pi including an HA console with tons of custom goodies).
While I would love to embark on this path it looks like the PIs that are available on the market are at silly markups. Does anyone know where to get a PI at anything near retail? Other ideas for displays that are better than the App running on an android tablet? Should I just return this and get an Ambient station? Happy to spend the time, effort and full retail ($200 ish I think) to make a nice display, I just wont pay the current usury prices for a Pi.
Thanks!
Chris
Check out this website: https://rpilocator.com/ it tracks Pi stock at different retailers and let’s you know when they are in stock!
Another option is to look for a Pi kit rather than a bare board. Some retailers are prioritising kits over individual boards
Depends on where you live, but generally ‘no’ in the US. I gave you a number of options in the other thread you asked the same question in.
Same here. I usually use MicroCenter but they have not had stock for a long time. I’m recycling my old Pi 2 and 3 boards from old to new uses in the meantime. If the size isn’t an issue find an old PC motherboard from a machine someone is throwing away and install Debian. You won’t find something as compact and low power as a Pi lurking in an old PC chassis though!
@peter - I know I asked this years ago when this unsearchable thousands of replies thread started, but I would like to ask again. Can we PLEASE split this thread into searchable sub-threads somehow ?
I would very much like to try extend wfpiconsole to (optionally) read its data from the UDP API as well as from MQTT data, but I simply can’t find any meat, so to speak, in all the noise in the 2800+ messages to date. I basically gave up after scrolling back through 1400+ of them.
I’d suggest multiple threads:
- this one for the announcements, how to install it, bug reports stuff
- a new one for how to extend it to do custom things using your ‘user’ hook
@robert.jochim’s questions and @stevecody’s example code for adding background images are a good example of the latter. I found a few other examples 1000+ messages back that also helped, but the blasted WF Forums software is pretty much useless in trying to find something twice.
Perhaps create a new “WeatherFlow PiConsole customization” thread or the like ?
At this point, this app maybe even needs its own forum. It’s that popular and complicated.
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anyone using or a future request about having one of the panels displaying like a 3day/week weather outlook kind of like on the tempest has on the website
You beat me to creating a new thread!
I agree that this thread has got out of hand. I often find myself writing answers to questions that have already been answered, but I can’t find the right post in the thread. I’m not keen to manage a separate forum, but I wonder what @eric would think of having a separate ‘wfpiconsole’ sub-forum under the main ‘Developers’ forum? I appreciate this might throw up difficulties deciding which integrations get their own sub-forums, but it would certainly go some way to solving the issues!
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@DavidK, does your console work after this update? I don’t know if your issue is the same
Fixed mine, Thanks!!!
It also fixed mine, thanks.
all is well for ‘wfpiconsole’ in Bellevue, NE. As always…thanks @peter
But still experiencing the red " ! " API thing with the console.
Hi @peter, thank you very much, now after installing the new version I also report restored functionality 
And it seems that the SAGER frontend is now functional.
It works, thank you very much. 
Figured I would chime in and also say that sometime last night, the piconsole crashed/closed. When I tried to restart it, I received the “Index out of range error”. I ran “wfpiconsole stop” and then “wfpiconsole update”. After doing that, the console started up again. Was there some kind of auto-update that caused the issue?