elewin / pi-weather-station

Pi Weather Station

This is a weather station designed to be used with a Raspberry Pi on the official 7" 800x480 touchscreen.

The weather station will require you to have API keys from Mapbox and ClimaCell (v4). Optionally, you can use an API key from LocationIQ to preform reverse geocoding.

Weather maps are provided by the RainViewer API, which generously does not require an API key.

Sunrise and Sunset times are provided by Sunrise-Sunset, which generously does not require an API key.

See it in action here.

Be mindful of the plan limits for your API keys and understand the terms of each provider, as scrolling around the map and selecting different locations will incur API calls for every location. Additionally, the weather station will periodically make additional api calls to get weather updates throughout the day.

v2.0.0

1-22-2021: Now uses ClimaCell API v4. For ClimaCell API v3 keys, use Pi Weather Station v1.

Setup

You will need to have Node.js installed.

To install, clone the repo and run

$ npm install

Start the server with

$ npm start

Now set point your browser to http://localhost:8080 and put it in full screen mode (F11 in Chromium).

Access from another machine

It's possible to access the app from another machine, but beware that by doing so you'll be exposing the app to your entire network, and someone else could potentially access the app and retreive your API keys from the settings page. By default the app is only accessible to localhost, but if you would like to open it up to your network (at your own risk!), open /server/index.js and remove "localhost" from the line that contains:

app.listen(PORT, "localhost", async () => {

so that it becomes:

app.listen(PORT, async () => {

The server will now serve the app across your network.

Settings

• Your API keys are saved locally (in plain text) to settings.json.
• The server will attempt to get your default location, but if it cannot or you wish to choose a different default location, enter the latitude and longitude under Custom Latitude and Custom Longitude in settings, which can be accessed by tapping the gear button in the lower right hand corner.
• To hide the mouse cursor when using a touch screen, set Hide Mouse to On.

Do you want to Host this Application in Docker?

Pi Weather Station is available as a Docker Image for AMD64 and ARM infrastructures. see the ReadME here for more: https://github.com/SeanRiggs/pi-weather-station/blob/master/Docker%20Image/Docker-ReadMe.md

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2020 Eric Lewin

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

pi-weather-station's Issues

Adding localization option

Would it be possible to add a localization option?

Font size

It is possible to increase time font size?

4 vulnerabilities (1 moderate, 3 high)

npm install

added 79 packages, and audited 80 packages in 17s

4 vulnerabilities (1 moderate, 3 high)

To address issues that do not require attention, run:
  npm audit fix

To address all issues (including breaking changes), run:
  npm audit fix --force

Run `npm audit` for details.
pi@rpi-3-38:~/pi-weather-station $ npm audit
# npm audit report

axios  <=0.21.1
Severity: high
Server-Side Request Forgery in Axios - https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4w2v-q235-vp99
Incorrect Comparison in axios - https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cph5-m8f7-6c5x
Depends on vulnerable versions of follow-redirects
fix available via `npm audit fix --force`
Will install [email protected], which is a breaking change
node_modules/axios

follow-redirects  <=1.14.7
Severity: high
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in follow-redirects - https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pw2r-vq6v-hr8c
Exposure of sensitive information in follow-redirects - https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-74fj-2j2h-c42q
fix available via `npm audit fix --force`
Will install [email protected], which is a breaking change
node_modules/follow-redirects
  axios  <=0.21.1
  Depends on vulnerable versions of follow-redirects
  node_modules/axios

glob-parent  <5.1.2
Severity: high
Regular expression denial of service in glob-parent - https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-ww39-953v-wcq6
fix available via `npm audit fix`
node_modules/glob-parent

ws  6.0.0 - 6.2.1
Severity: moderate
ReDoS in Sec-Websocket-Protocol header - https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6fc8-4gx4-v693
fix available via `npm audit fix`
node_modules/ws

4 vulnerabilities (1 moderate, 3 high)

To address issues that do not require attention, run:
  npm audit fix

To address all issues (including breaking changes), run:
  npm audit fix --force

NOM looking for package.json

Thank you for taking the time & effort to make this. Unfortunately, I am unable to get it running. First off I have node V14.17 on an up to date RPi 3B. when I issue the command npm start, I Get the following response:
npm ERR! syscall open
npm ERR! path /home/pi/package.json
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/pi/package.json'
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2021-05-26T16_13_08_108Z-debug.log
2021-05-26T16_13_08_108Z-debug.log

It seems it is looking for package.json. I am attaching the log file.

BTW While installing I had to a command like npm audit-fix - I don't know if it is relevant but thought I would mention it.

Edit: Title should read "NPM looking for package.json"

openweathermap option?

I see in the source that in the /client/src/components/CurrentWeather directory there is a file called openweathermap_index.js. Is that a working option if I rename it to index.js or was that something that was begun but never completed?

Error 403 for 7-day weather forecast

Hi,

For a couple of weeks now I have been getting the following error message where the 7-day forecast should be:

"Cannot get 7 day weather forecast
Request failed with status code 403"

Has the weather provider changed something?

Edit: Same with the Docker version.

Regards
Max

Map, weather, geolocation populates with keys, precipitation map cover shows, but no map layer underneath showing countries, cities, etc.

Attached picture of the issue, everything works fine except the map layer not showing up. API keys taken from recommended sites such as tomorrow.io, mapbox, etc.

Unable to retrieve map data

I've had my pi-weather-station up and running for almost a month but earlier today, my RPi stopped being able to download the map from Mapbox. I waited 8 hours to see if the problem would resolve itself but it did not. I then checked the Mapbox website and the API key was still valid and showed no problems. To confirm the API key was not the issue, I had Mapbox issue a new key. After entering this new key into the RPi, it is still unable to download the map. Anyone have any ideas how to fix this?

NO data in sector :)

as if the information is cut in a certain square

Cannot see map

I can see all but the map, I verified my API's are correct mp MapBox, tomorrow.ai and LocationIQ.

Photo:

blinking clouds

Hi, I have issue with "clouds" which blinking every frame.
On beginning only when clouds was uploading every frame was disapearing before nex one. Then animation run smoot.
Now there is no animation, just blinking frames.
Any ideas how to improve?

Stopped retrieving weather data

My system was running continuously and perfectly for several months, and about 3-4 days ago it stopped retrieving weather data. Map and radar and time/sunrise/sunset are all good but conditions and forecasts are gone. In that display space, the program now displays:

"Could not retrieve weather data. Is your API key valid? Request failed with status code 401"

I checked all of my API keys, tried a few alternatives, and then plugged in the original API key from tomorrow.io.

In looking at the API calls graph on tomorrow.io, I see that it was consistently pulling 180-ish calls every day, then it dropped to 86 suddenly for one day, then 4 the next day, and then 0 and that's where it has been for several days.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Harry

Idea for adding Solar Weather Data and/or DX cluster window for ham radio ops

Greetings from Seattle. Thanks for the great Pi Weather Station. I have been using mine on an old RP2b continuously and works great.

BTW, by chance, could you consider adding either / both solar weather data (i.e. http://www.hamqsl.com/) and/or a DX cluster window (i.e. ClubLog or DXsummit.fi). Would be a great resource for monitoring radio conditions along with weather conditions. Just a thought.

Thanks again. 73.

Jonathan, KK7PW

Stablility issues

First, thank you for the great code. Mine works well in the beginning, but after some hours of use the webserver crashes and stops responding. I have the same issue with two different raspberry boards. Any tips how to solve the issue?

7 Day forecast no longer working

I've had my weather station going on a spare Pi I have for several months at this point, but I was constantly having undervoltage issues with my power supply. Finally got around to getting a new power supply for it, but after rebooting I'm no longer getting the 7 day forecast. It's coming back with a 403 error, but the hourly forecast is working fine, so not quite sure I understand what might be wrong. Would have thought if the API was bad it would take out all the weather info, but it's just the 7 day forecast. Not sure if something changed on the Tomorrow.io side, but seems odd it would have happened exactly when I changed power supplies. Have left it running for a day or two now thinking maybe it would just come back eventually, but still seeing the same error.

'Cannot retrieve map data -- did you enter an API key'

I get this error:

'Cannot retrieve map data -- did you enter an API key'

I put in the mapbox api key and I have waited about one hour, so far no result (this is the first time starting).

Hi how to remove settings button from web page?

thx.

Are you going to upgrade the climacell API calls

I use climacell for a personal project as well and got an email that they are moving from v3 of the API to v4 in the next 6 months or so. Please tell me you are planning on upgrading this project to use the new v4 calls so that this will continue to work.

Adjustments to weather API call rates

Tomorrow.io/Climacell seems to limit my free account to 100 API calls a day, not 500 like they advertise. With no channels to contact them since I don't pay them.
I run out of API calls by morning.

Can there be an adjustment setting to how often the weather API is called?
Are there any other alternatives out there after Tomorrow.io took over?

full screen ?

Hello
and thank you for your beautiful project that I managed to reproduce although not a linux pro. Just how to get full screen and do at startup raspi boot on your application? thank you in advance for your info
eric

No temperature, wrong weather icon

Today I got this issue. No temperature and other data

Startup Screen flashes and disappears

I had this running for a couple of years on my Pi3+ but had to reformat the card and start over. Now when the program starts the setup screen appears about halfway up the browser screen and disappears. I can't get it to open so that I can enter the API keys. I'm running nodejs v 18.16.1 and the most recent Debian Bullseye from the Raspberry Pi imager. Any help is appreciated!

it's possible to change interface language add to settings

thx.

Entering API keys on browser pop-up.

Preface: I suck at this stuff.

I'm trying to set this up for a 24" 1920x1080 wall-hung monitor. when I click the sprocket icon to enter my API keys it "dissapears" off screen. Resizing the browser does not fix this, F11 doesn't either. If I size the browser just right, I can see the whole menu, but if I try to click into the text box, the window dissapears again. Any ideas on what I should do?

Action Required: Migrate Your Tomorrow.io API Domain

Hello,

I've received this communication from tomorrow.io team. I supposed some modifications will be needed. Will you update your project to adapt?

Regards,

Hi there,

We're reaching out with an important update regarding your API services with Tomorrow.io.

As part of our ongoing efforts to improve service quality, integrity, and security, we are migrating our API domain.

Upon reviewing our records, we noticed that your account is currently utilizing the old API domain.

To avoid any interruption in service, we kindly ask you to update your API endpoint from data.climacell.co to api.tomorrow.io by May 11.

If you have any questions or need assistance with the migration process, please feel free to reach out to our customer success team at [email protected].

We are here to support you every step of the way and ensure a seamless transition to the new API domain.

Thanks,
The Tomorrow.io Team

5 Day Forecast on docker

Has anyone figured out how to get the 5 day forecast to work again on the docker container? I've tried editing the container and rebuilding it with new config, but no luck so far.

ClimaCell redirects to tomorrow.io, and does not seem to be allowing public (free) connections

Just curious if I'm missing something, or not doing something correct?

I'm trying to install and setup the pi weather station for the first time. I have the application running, and the config screen to enter the API keys. I have the "Maps API key", and the "Geolocation API Key". However, I am making no progress on the Weather API key.

The directions I've seen and on this site have links to ClimaCell (which redirects to tomorrow.io) and then I try to sign up, I get "enter a business email address". If I add emails from yahoo, gmail (and other carriers), I get "sorry that's not a business email". Can someone give me a tip on how to get an account created? Or maybe there is an alternate weather API site?

Thanks,
GreatLakesHam

5 Day Forecast Error with Status Code 403

Receiving an error on the 5-day forecast only, attempted the fix as seen on issue #38 with the change from 7 day to 5 day forecast due to free tier on tomorrow.io, rebuilt project but did not seem to fix the issue.

Set startup location using GPS Hat on Raspberry Pi

If this is already a feature, I'd love to have some instructions for making it work. My pi has a GPS Hat installed on it, in order to make it a time server for my local network. Is there a way to feed the latitude/longitude into the settings for the weather display, so it will start up at that location? Or if I leave the boxes blank, will it get the information from the GPS Hat?

Thanks and have a great day. :)
Patrick.

How to add barometric pressure trend chart?

How could I write something to add barometric trend chart?

Thank you.

Add Button

Hello,
Your weather station works great and I wanted to use it for a personal project. I would like to add a button that will open a URL link to a localhost:8880 server but I can't...can you help me?
thanks

Question about animation

@elewin ... great app, thanks for posting it.

I have a question about the animated portion of the app. It shows the weather animation but I didn't see any times for each of the images. Is this shown somewhere on the page? Also, how many images are part of the animation?

auto start the Weather-Station

I try my best, but I can't get your program to start automatically.
I wrote a bash-script (start_weather.sh) with the following call:
#!/bin/bash cd ~/pi-weather-station/ npm start
and made it executable.
chmod +x /home/pi/start_weather.sh
If I enter:
$ /home/pi/start_weather.sh
it starts like it should.
But if I put it in a crontab nothing hapend.
0 9 * * * /home/pi/start_weather.sh

Try the same with your bash #12 (just without chromium):
#!/bin/bash cd ~/pi-weather-station/ /usr/local/bin/npm start ~/pi-weather-station/server/index.js
unfortunately without success

Do you have an idea where the problem could be or what I can still try ?

Edit:
I have figured out that it works when I start the script via LXDE.
But why doesn't crontab work?

change default viewing radius?

is there a setting to use to change the default viewing radius? I live in a metropolitan area with several cities all right next to each other and within about a 20-mile radius of my address. but the map shows what appears to be about a 50-mile radius. Is there a setting that I can use to change this?

Node.js install but no npm install

I did follow all the steps but after node.js installed I can't install npm.
There was an error about locale not right.

NOT AN ISSUE...Just a question about map colors

Wonder if possible to create a custom map in MapBox and then have it associate with the API Kep so that it displays something other than just light or dark mode on the display

auto Start Program

is their a way to auto start the program when the pi boots up?

Trying add a wind direction feature.

Lovely system btw.

It seems that ClimaCell has a wind_deg variable that could be used in the currentWeather part of your code to create a wind direction number for current wind direction.

I have tried to make the modifications myself, but it is well beyond me.

Just a thought for the future.

bind to all interfaces instead of just localhost

Not really an issue, per se (maybe a feature request). What would it take to bind the server to all interfaces instead of just "localhost"? Would it just be a matter of changing every instance of "localhost" to 0.0.0.0 (except for where it calls chromium-browser)?

Opeweather option?

I wonder whether there's easy way to switch to Openweather? ClimaCell seems to be no more, but I'd still love to use this project.

Cannot retrieve map data

I have been running the weather radar for a while now but recently had a power outage. When I restarted my pi and the weather radar it brings me to the same localhost page but the map is not there or any weather data. It just says "Cannot retrieve map data. Did you enter an API key?". I double checked my API keys and even tried new ones but I still get the same error. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Incorporating Local Data

Any interest in making it possible to incorporate data from backyard sensors--whether by replacing or simply by supplementing the temp / humidity / wind data from ClimaCell? Having the radar, the sunrise/sunset times, and the beautiful layout are super. It'd be even better to be able to incorporate local data as well. So far, my own efforts to that end have proven fruitless.

Errors in Docker version

Hi there,

Thanks for an excellent project!

Issues are disabled on @SeanRiggs' repo, so I'm posting this here. I'm trying to run the Docker version of the repo on a Raspberry Pi 4, but I get this error:

pi@flight:~/docker $ docker compose up
Attaching to weather-station
weather-station  |
weather-station  | > [email protected] start /app
weather-station  | > node ./server/index.js
weather-station  |
weather-station  | /app/node_modules/axios/index.js:1
weather-station  | import axios from './lib/axios.js';
weather-station  | ^^^^^^
weather-station  |
weather-station  | SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module
weather-station  |     at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:892:18)
weather-station  |     at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:973:10)
weather-station  |     at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:812:32)
weather-station  |     at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:724:14)
weather-station  |     at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:849:19)
weather-station  |     at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:74:18)
weather-station  |     at Object.<anonymous> (/app/server/geolocationCtrl.js:1:15)
weather-station  |     at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:956:30)
weather-station  |     at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:973:10)
weather-station  |     at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:812:32)
weather-station  | npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
weather-station  | npm ERR! errno 1
weather-station  | npm ERR! [email protected] start: `node ./server/index.js`
weather-station  | npm ERR! Exit status 1
weather-station  | npm ERR!
weather-station  | npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] start script.
weather-station  | npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
weather-station  |
weather-station  | npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
weather-station  | npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2023-11-03T12_05_25_325Z-debug.log
weather-station exited with code 0

My Docker Compose file is:

version: '3'
services:
  weather-station:
    image: seanriggs/pi-weather-station:arm64 #or arm64 (i.e. RaspberryPi)
    container_name: weather-station
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
    volumes:
      - appdata:/app
    restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
  appdata:

I can run pi-weather-station natively on the Pi and it works fine.

Client Build Production version and Deploy to Web Container.

Hello,
I would like to buil a production version for deploy in a apache web container /var/www/html/meteo dir.
Someone can help me with instructions to build a client production version.
The server service I wiil run with systemctl service.
Thanks !!!

Add option to adjust temp locally

I'm not sure where climacell gets its temp from but suspect it is noaa or airports or local new stations. However it does not necessarily match with my backyard. It seems that the reported value is about 3-4 degrees cooler than my backyard gauge. So, is it possible to add a setting to add/subtract from the climacell temp so that we can make the value closer to our actual temps? For example, I'd like to add +3 degrees to the value reported from climacell in my case.

Different Monitor size optimization

Works well, but attempting to use your project on 3.5 TFT screen, and the chromium window doesn't look good, basically can only see half the output. Can anything be done to optimize it for smaller screens ?

How to change width of the right column?

Just looking for some customization options on the UI...Would also be nice to add a column to news api..

Not working in iPad

I cannot seem to get the page to display properly on an iPad. I have 2 different browsers on the iPad and in both the browser connects to my pi to display the radar map successfully but the details pane on the right-hand side is missing. When I try to scroll the display thinking perhaps it is just bigger than the screen it moves the map but still no details pane shows.

I also notice a similar behavior for my iPhone but in the case of the iPhone when I rotate the device to landscape mode the details pane shows up as expected. However, on the iPad the details are missing from both the portrait and landscape orientations.

From a desktop browser all works perfectly.
Any thoughts or ideas?

location

why is the location set in America but I'm from the UK

Upgrading

Sorry, a rookie when it comes to RPI commands. Is there a way to upgrade to v2 without starting over? I have tried the sudo apt-get upgrade with no luck.