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Self-hosted weather app? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by perishthethought@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] cosmic_slate@dmv.social 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I plug NWS into home assistant for a nice weather display in my kitchen.

[–] cosmic_slate@dmv.social 3 points 11 months ago

Same! I think it works very well.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Willdrick@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is Geometric Weather displaying info on thebdetail cards for your chosen service? I changed it to OoenWeatherMap and still shows me accuweather cards

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 points 11 months ago

Yep! You might have to restart your phone the first time? Or force stop the app