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curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 3 days ago
You’ve already got some options for the json, so I’ll just add:
dockerized weather forecasting apps
As a thought, maybe magic mirror? I’m (ab)using magic mirror as a dakboard/skylight style calendar, no mirror to be found, and the weather widgets are pretty good too. Another option would be Home Assistant if you’ve already got it up and running, you can set kiosk style with a single page to a specific logged in user, same with grafana if you’ve got it up. The Infinity data source is great for json ingest.
I thought about Home Assistant, but I’m not sure what I’d do with the rest of it’s capabilities. I live in a house built in the latter part of the 40’s sitting in the middle of 22 acres. Besides a monitor for all my security cams which I already have set up, there’s not a whole lot to automate with Home Assistant around here. LOL 2 rooms, one bath, part of which have the original logs from when it was a log cabin. Not a whole lot to keep up with.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 3 days ago
Oh see for me that sounds like a dream to set up HA for…. (also the kind of acreage I’m trying to get). Off the top:
It mostly depends on what you’re doing with the property and what your goals might be. HA would be a lot to set up just for weather - magicmirror would definitely be the better choice for simple - but if you’ve got other stuff you are doing or want to do, HA would be a dream.
Well, I used to be a farmer among other things in a former life. I’m 71 now and a bit too old to be running a farm full time. So I lease most of it out to other farmers in the area to grow silage for their livestock. I still retain some for my livestock, and personal grows. I also have parceled out a couple of half and quarter acre plots for the townies to grow their community gardens. Positive cash flow and all that.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 3 days ago
So I don’t have the acreage right now, so I’m going to call this gardening level - but what I do with HA includes things like:
Inside I have sensors to check for moisture around my water heater, automation for my lighting (like when I get out of my bed, the led strip turns on, brightness determined by room light levels and time of day), etc. I work from home, so I also have a light above my door that acts like an on-air light - if I join a call my wife/kids know not to interrupt me (light works great, kids still need operational adjustment here and there).
If all you want is that weather dashboard though….
Magic Mirror + OneCallWeather module + rain map module and you’ve got a slick setup, maybe add in some camera streaming via rtsp for a bonus. And if you go homeassistant later, you can add a module for that too.