#weatherdash-go

The canonical location of this repo is: https://git.sr.ht/~mkelly/weatherdash-go. Other locations are mirrors.

Go rewrite of https://github.com/mjkelly/weatherdash. This version is more maintained (to the extent that I maintain either).

This is the server side portion of a weather dashboard for your house, using data and icons from https://openweathermap.org/.

The idea is that you put a portable computer (like a Raspberry Pi, or similar) somewhere running Chrome and load this web page. This dashboard can be running on your portable computer, or somewhere else.

It's designed to look good on an 800x640 screen. Here's a screenshot:

Here's a photo of a much older version of weatherdash running on this screen from Adafruit: https://www.adafruit.com/product/2260

I also tried to make it look all right on a portrait-mode phone, in case you want to use that.

#Installation

This requires a working Go installation, and GNU Make.

Copy config.json.example to config.json to start. You only need to update keys that have a value of FILL_ME_IN in config.json.example.

If you just want to see a demo at this point, you can run make run and visit http://localhost:8080/fake -- that will read fake weather data stored locally. You must have a config.json file, but you need not change it at all.

#Step 1: Config Setup

1. API Key: You need to get your own API key for https://openweathermap.org/. Put your API key in the api_key field of config.json.
2. Location: You have should pick location to get weather for! The default is New York City. You can use https://www.latlong.net/ for this. The config expects numerical (positive and negative numbers, no north/south or east/west), like this website provides. Put these in the lat and lon fields of config.json.

#Step 2: Run it

Run make in this directory to build and run the server. It'll listen on port 8080. Go to <your-ip-address>:8080 to have a look. If you're building this on your local machine, that's http://localhost:8080

#Debugging

If you're debugging the layout, add ?reload=false to the URL to skip the periodic reload. That will avoid wiping refreshing the HTML periodically.