It occurred to me today that I am hosting more and more services locally, but I still rely on a 3rd party weather app on my PC and phone. Generally, they suck as a class of applications - so much surveillance.
I searched around and found a couple Reddit threads from years ago, before Apple killed off the DarkSky API. But I think there are still free APIs, yes?
Are there any good FOSS current weather and forecasting self hosting options now? Thanks!
I’m in the US if that matters.
It depends on what country you’re in. If you’re in the US, the National Weather Service provides an excellent no-bullshit “please don’t abuse this” API.
https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api
If you just want a site to pull the weather down: https://weather.gov/
I’m really not sure what you’d gain from self-hosting this unless you own your own weather station though since you’d have to reach an authoritative source that provides the forecasts eventually.
I plug NWS into home assistant for a nice weather display in my kitchen.
Same! I think it works very well.
France provides the Open-Meteo API for europe too. I just tap into this source.
It is better than AccuWeather anyway often times. Foe Geometric weather it actually works too. With AccuWeather I wouldn’t get any air quality stats.
Is Geometric Weather displaying info on thebdetail cards for your chosen service? I changed it to OoenWeatherMap and still shows me accuweather cards
Yep! You might have to restart your phone the first time? Or force stop the app