Welcome to PiWeatherRock

Notice

On March 30, 2020 an announcement was posted to the Dark Sky Blog stating that they have been acquired by Apple. The announcement went on to say that they are no longer accepting new requests for API access and that they will be shutting the API down at the end of 2021.

This unfortunate bit of news isn’t the end of this project… I’ve been here before. This just means that I will have to do a third API migration. I have decided to use ClimaCell as the new backend. This is actually going to enable some new features. Work related to this, and suggestions on what API to use, are being tracked in issue 48 of the project’s GitHub repo.

Welcome

Welcome to the documentation for PiWeatherRock! I’m glad you have decided to check it out and sincerely hope you find it useful.

PiWeatherRock is packaged as a series of Python packages that can be installed from PyPI. To maximize the usefulness of these packages it helps if the program runs as a service. To facilitate this, along with the installation of all prerequisite software, I have taken advantage of the open source automation tools from Puppet.

Screens

PiWeatherRock has three screens that it cycles through to show you a daily forecast, a hourly forecast, and an information screen. Here are examples of each: